I hate it when people lose their minds when they see a pit running loose. Of course if you see a large dog traipsing about you should go inside and call animal control to come get it. But don't just ASSUME that because it's a pit that it will be vicious and don't exaggerate what it's doing or law enforcement will be more likely to shoot it if it blinks wrong. My neighbor used to have a pit named Charley who loved to break out of the yard while they were at work to see if he could get someone to play with him. He was just a dopey dog barely older than a pup and his dopiness was blatantly obvious. He'd trot about, tongue lolling, ears perked, tail wagging looking for people or other dogs to play with. Usually my dad and I would end up catching him and putting him in our backyard until his owners came back. On one such occasion he wouldn't come to us because there were more people than usual outside and he wanted to play with everyone of them. He trotted dorkily up to a man walking down
the sidewalk as I shouted to the man that he was completely friendly and wouldn't hurt him. This idiot jumped in front of a car to avoid Charley and almost got run over. The guy then ran away (which is not what you are supposed to do when facing a potential dangerous dog) and Charley just watched him go all confused like "What did I do?" Then trotted towards a woman doing yard work and she ran inside her gate screaming at us to control our "vicious damn dog" before she called the police. This fence she hid behind was a whole 4 feet tall so if Charley was after her she'd be dead. At this point my 10 year old sister came outside and called his name, he ran over to her and immediately flopped on his back at her feet. What a vicious brute.
Not all dogs are visious if they are humans caused it, not all pit bulls are either, raise all animals with love and kindness and your heart will over flow, they love you more, God bless Officer Dan for being there for Bo that day now both their lives are fuller.
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