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Originally Posted by Love4himies
Well they wouldn't have wanted to be at the party I was at this weekend. Maxine, a beautiful pitbull was intermingling with puppies, babies and children running around , no muzzle and amazingly NOBODY WAS HURT
That's what media and BSL does to the general public, it creates ignorance, not education!
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Years ago, I was terrified of pits, living in a city where probably 90% of our HS is full of them, and there were news stories of unfortunate attacks,(one a 7 yr old boy "sic'd" his pit on a 5 yr old little girl and she was seriously injured). It was a hot day at my work (a drycleaner) and we had the front doors open. I was on the phone when I felt something licking my hand. I looked down and there was a beautiful brindle colored pitbull. She smiled at me (I SWEAR! She did!) and rolled over on her back for belly rubs. At the time I was living at home with my mother and her 12 cats, so having a dog was not on option, but trust me, she would have been mine if I could. She opened my eyes that day, and that's when i realized it wasn't the dogs, but the owners who were at fault. I now have two dogs, they are labs, my DH is a lab-man, but I wouldn't hesitate to own a bully breed, if I had more room in my house, since that little sweetie wandered in to my life that day. I had to turn her over to the HS but I paid for an "angel"
to be put on her, to help defray adoption costs. The HS sent me a real nice letter letting me know she was adopted about a month later.
I think about her alot and hope she is living a wonderful life with her new family.