Jay Knepper wrote:

Your aquaintance is a scum bag. The breed was originally developed to be
agressive to animals, but very people-friendly.

In fact a fighting pit bull that showed aggressiveness towards humans was killed
out of hand.

In my research I read of how
owners of fighting dogs would regularly stay in the ring with their dogs,
get down beside them, and urge them on as they ripped each other apart.

The rules of American dog fighting require that the owners stay in the ring
while the dogs are fighting. Further, they have to wade in an separate their
dogs at the referee's command. They can't afford to have a dog which is
aggressive towards humans because they're the ones most likely to be bitten.

In fact you're less likely to be bitten by a pit bull in breaking up a dog fight
than just about any other breed. Which does not make it a good idea to try to do
it.


So it is possible that his dogs were not a threat to you or to his family.
However he was participating in a criminal activity, and probably not
someone you would like to sit down and have a beer with.

As you say. A scum bag.

--RC



Jay

"Nova" wrote in message
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mp wrote:

Ideally, one would like to think so. Unfortunately a large percentage of
reported pit bull attacks were from seemingly gentle family pets that
just
snapped and went wild.

I knew an acquaintance that had three pit bulls. He used to fight them
every
weekend. When anyone asked they were just "family pets" too.

--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA
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