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[–] M4rt1n 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Pt 2.

I've noticed in black neighborhoods, people are both afraid of and overly excited about/fond of Pit Bulls.

I have a Pit rescue who has survived the streets and also survived being stolen for basement fighting. I found the people who had him after he and another dog had escaped and gotten retrieved with RFID tags. Then I met some guys who knew him when he was in the guy's basement. The guy went up and the people in the house just let the dogs go. So my dog, super friendly scrappy Red Nose, was in a fighting basement used as a bait dog for like 6 months.

When I picked him up he was wiry as hell and just dejected and almost unrecognizable.

But within a week or so we would go on walks and he would have his cocky tail up. A few times he would get in scrapples with dogs on the street and my friend's dogs, but he never "started" it.

What you need to understand [full disclosure I'm drinking Vodka] if another dog isn't really well socialized to "off leash facetime" with other dogs, they instinctively play stupid games and win stupid prizes. So where as a "house dog" might act out a slight nervousness in an exploratory "Dominance Dance"- a dog which has been abused - [Nurture] - might respond more aggressively than its nature.

My Red Nosed Pit Bull instinctively would respond to an exploratory assertion of dominance with a playful response proportional to the situation. However because my dog has been on the streets and used for fighting intentionally, these actions will trigger him to "defensively attack". The Pit Bull breed has around the 3rd strongest jaws of any common breed and they use it to grapple their prey.

My Red Nose, in every fight I have seen him in, has been "playfully" or in some cases not so "playfully" attacked by un-leashed dogs and one time when both he and the other dog were on leashes. In each case he scraps with it until he gets a good position to grab onto it where the other dog can't bite him.

If he is killing prey, he does this and thrashes/breaks the spine/neck of the critter. But when it is another dog, he just latches on and holds on so the other dog can't bite him. He is not violent by nature, and even the worst nurture has not broken that faithful spirit he has.