A pitbull coming home from the park?

Correct!

The problem with pitbulls comes from their historical lineage. They were bred to not only bite and fight, but to snap once the fight got going.
Breeders who had dogs that did not snap were 'Kristi Noemed'. They were eliminated from the gene pool. After several generations of this selection process, they all carried the 'snap' gene. No different with how retrievers and pointers were selectively bred. The ones that failed to retrieve or point were taken out of the gene pool. A cold hard fact of how things were dealt with way back when.
People aren't killed by a bite from a pitbull. They are killed by an animal which snapped and went berserk until their adversary stopped quivering.

I was gonna guess a pitbull coming back from the neighbor's kid's birthday party.

Not all Muslims are terrorists....but all terrorists are Muslim

Not all pitbulls are killers....but all killers are pitbulls..

You obviously fail to grasp that your personal experience, though important and emotionally upsetting to you, is not statistically significant.

Keith

one thing I will say about Pits is , when they are at a mutt with some pit they seem a lot more calm than pure breads. it take a lot of the energy out of many of them.

It's statistically significant enough for insurance companies, despite your efforts to hand-wave it away.

How many active Trapperman posters need to come forth with their own pit bull stories before it becomes statistically significant in your sample?

Just kill them all and be done with it

Please give me even a single example of a major US insurance company that won't cover pitbulls if the owners pay them too.

State Farm, USAA and Farmers don't even charge more for pitbulls.

Keith

I have Erie for homeowners and they will not cover you if you own a Pitbull, Doberman, Rottweiler and there was one more. Maybe a Rhodesian Ridgeback however I'm not real certain about that one. This was 10 years ago when I got the policy.

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I don't think it's Ridgebacks, bud. They're pretty even tempered.

A search of Erie's complete website shows no results for "pitbull".



https://www.erieinsurance.com/search-results?searchValue=Pitbull

An online search says:



Keith

No one can out google Kieth.

When it see them out and about im always in a defensive posture hand on gun. If they are on my place they dont leave.

Old Buckne, who I miss, would have given me a run for my money.

It's better to have a position you can give evidence of, than to just to make up what you say, go by what you may of heard as fact, or go by what you feel.

Keith

LOL

I don't love pitbulls though. I have little experience with them and only know one person who has one. I just don't think any dog breed should be banned. I think once breed is banned, other breeds will quickly follow.

I absolutely do feel owners should be legally and criminally responsible for their dogs and other dangerous animals.

Keith

Ticking time bombs. Not worth the risk for a pet. I can see them being a good tool for a hog hunter if kenneled properly and managed well, but never for a pet! There are so many better dogs to choose from for pets.

I will wholeheartedly agree there are definitely better breeds of dogs to keep as pets than pitbulls.

Keith