Pit Bulls monster or media stereotyped

I like how you bring up a pack mentality. To dispute how you just said that once you as alpha leave he would not revert to his "wolf" mentality in several studies that contained both tamed wolves and domesticated dogs wolves actually never made to snap at on coming aggressors. Most dogs will make a show of being big and bad, but will never actually harm a child. Damon stays in an invisible electric fence at my house. I'm alpha female, but I am not there 24/7 Damon stays with my grandfather and he has never so much as harmed him or my younger brother. Damon is socialized I take him to the dog park and different pet stores. He has never once approached a child in a aggressive manor. My family as a whole owns 7 or 8 dogs. Damon is my only one but my cousin owns 3 pit bulls. 1 of which is a therapy dog and a pit bull advocate. http://io9.com... You say that you'd rather have a human child safe than see a good report in the media about how a pit or a dog on media was put in a good light. The following link is not to an attack but to a rescue from a rescue pit. http://www.mnn.com... . Pits have gotten a bad rep because of their history, but to that reputation around the breed needs people to see them not as the monsters that can snap in a heart beat, but as animals that live and breathe. My argument that a pit would regress with the "alpha of the pack" is either away or even hurt that the dog would stay true to its individual temperament is that if this was true then why is that Lilly a 3 year old Pit Bull when her owner was going to be killed because she passed out on a train track risk herself to get her off the track. Lilly didn't attack emergency personnel when they came to help, but she did guard her owner. http://lillytheheropitbull.com... You say that I'm biased about my dog because I love him. I can say yes I am because just as Lilly rescued her owner Damon rescued me. My friends gave me Damon to help me recover mentally from having been stalked and almost raped. The only reason I wasn't raped was because of my strength of will and my friends beagle. Damon has helped me a lot and even made sure that my grandfather couldn't hit me when he went off he is medicine. He didn't harm him just got between me and my grandfather. https://www.facebook.com... Those are pictures of my Damon. In the first picture he only weighed 25 pounds and was 9 months old. This was taken a few days after he got between me and an aggressive dog. He walked between me, my little brother and the dog. The dog growled at us and Damon walked a circled around us until we got back on our road and the other dogs in the neighborhood scared the dog off. You also mentioned that it was the owners fault. I don't know about the attacks that you have found but one that happened in my own town the pit was on a chain behind a fence with in watch of owners. The attack happened not because of negligence of the owner but because the 8 year old child decided he was going to throw rocks and balls and other objects at the dog. The dog was taken away and after an investigation by the police it was decided by the court that it was actually the child at fault because the owner had the dog behind a fence and locked down. Turned out the child admitted he stuck is head with through the fence with food sticking out of his mouth. Dog was returned to his owner and the child survived with minimal facial injuries. According to an article on Alternet http://www.alternet.org... pit bulls in a test on temperament scored second only gold retrievers on high tolerance. This test was conducted with not just pure breeds but mixes also. With that having been said I do agree with you that people who want to adopt not just pits but all dogs. The problem with that is that unlike domestic abuse or drugs often people are not ever charged with animal abuse. While I have seen it where people been brought in for dog fights it was not the charge that put them in jail. My local 4Paws actually doesn't allow people that live in certain areas to adopt pit bulls or other types of dogs. I wasn't aware that I had to have insurance on my dog and yes my insurance does know that Damon lives with us. Have a question though for you. Have you ever had anyone ask what breed your dog is then come back with a needle or a gun because of your answer? My Cousin did. My neighbor tried to tell me I was doing something illegal by having a pit bull in a house hold that had a 9 year old in it. I looked at some of those death reports and have a question. Who on earth is stupid enough to leave a child that isn't even a year old yet with a dog. No matter what breed or size a dog can get offended or annoyed just as easily as you or I. Before I ever let a child approach my dog even though I trust him not to hurt them I show them how to pet him and approach. Fact: It"s difficult to determine just how much a dog"s genetics determine his behavior, just like it"s hard to know how much of a person"s personality is nature and how much is nurture. It"s true that some breeds simply have more ability to injure people than others do. Though it"s no more likely to bite than a smaller dog, if it does bite, a Great Dane can do much more damage than a Maltese, for example. (Even very small breeds can be dangerous to children, however.) http://www.healthypet.com... Fact: Small breed dogs are much more aggressive than medium or large breed dogs. They are prone to be more aggressive because their owners don't reprimand like they would a large breed dog. http://www.dogbreedinfo.com... So I ask you would you say that the second you were gone would a say a Bichon Frise or a Dachshund would do the same as a pit? Or better yet in a situation where you are hugging a loved one good bye would your pit bite the person that hugged you. I bring up hugging a loved one good bye and being bitten because no large breed I've been in contact with have never hurt me, but my grandmother's Dachshund almost sent me to the hospital because he bit my nose hugging my grandmother. He jumped up on my grandmother and neither of us noticed him. To this day I have a scar from it and the dog has attacked a wire haired terrier as well as a pit bull. The pit backed down and actually hid behind my cousin. So yes while I believe that pits and others need to be placed in good homes with good owners I don't believe that a breed should be recognized by a few bad seeds that we don't know full stories or histories about. Does anyone really know what makes a pit besides history anymore dangerous than any other dog. http://www.huffingtonpost.com...