Put them all down (91)

Pit Bulls, they're not meant to be in urban areas.
They should only be allowed to be where they were designed to be - out hunting wild pigs and locking their jaws onto the jugular.
Not onto the neck of a 4 yo kid
Any animal lovers out there who say it's the owners fault and that they should be put down deserve to be shot.
These animals are bred killers, no dancing around the subject, the sooner they are out of urbanised areas, the safer we will be and our pets.
I remember when young the fear I felt when one locked it's jaw on our Jack Russell, dad kept whacking the pit bulls head with a shovel and it still would release our dog from its grip.
Needless to say our dog died soon after the event.

Thier are two major problems with Pit Bulls, the first one is careless owners who dont keep them under control at all times and the second one is they have had the instinct to kill bred into them. They are absolutley no good as back yard pets and shouldnt even be kept for hunting either due to what can happen when they escape as we have sadly seen in this case.
They are supposedly now a banned breed and it is illegal to breed them now, the idea being that would slowly die out as a breed but they are still being bred, the people who breed them just call them a different breed. The dead give away is when they advertize them as having jeep lines in thier breeding or they call them red dogs.
I am an animal lover and it is very rare for me to say this type of thing of any breed of dog. Ive always said blame the deed and the breed but in this case l cant, they were bred for a purpose and the instinct is so strong in them that they are just to dangerous. Yes some owners say but my dog would never do that but the capability is thier and the natural instinct can come out without any warning.

Yes shell sadly it is children who are most vunrable to dog attacks and its mostly due to the fact that dogs dont see children as being above them in the " family pack" therefore if the the child does something that the dog sees as stepping above it place in the pack they treat them the same as they would another dog and punish them, the child screams which causes the dog to attack harder. Its not like a puppy would react they would submit and the dog stops. The problem is most people expect thier dogs to act like humans and they cant, they are a dog and thier instinct to be part of a pack has never left them, us humans have become thier pack.
Children should never be left alone with any breed of dog, they should be taught never to approach a dog with out the owners permission, never pat the dog along the top of the body or the head, they see that as a form of dominence and never make eye contact with a dog.

t|his dog wasn't approached, it came into the girls home after escaping from its owners yard.
Girls seem to be attacked morso than boys.
It was a cross bred pit bull, apparently it's the only way to own them other than on the black market or if you owned one before the ban came in.

Yes lm aware this dog wasnt approached, l was just giving some saftey tips when dealing with dogs. I think girls are attacked for often as they are more inclined to scream when they feel scared which encourages the dog to attack as they sound like a scared animal and they become prey to these aggressive dogs.

They still are definatley breeding them, they just advertise smartly or sell them on the black market.

sory do,nt agree on this one. Have a look at stats on dog attacks border collies are number 3 on the list and kelpies are not far behind them. Freinds of mine have owned pitbulls that where bought from a breeder and there parents where family pets, all the pups where sold to familys as they where breeding the agreesion out of the dog. Any animal that is treated right wont show aggression unless you provoke it.

half the problem is the mentality of the owners more than the dog,