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I can't imagine owning a pit bull at all but owning one with children is so irresponsible. The damage any dog can inflict in a couple of seconds is often life changing (scars) if not death. It's just irresponsible. My oldest son was attacked by a family members' pit mix when he was 7. It happened in millisecond. He had a nasty, raised scar on his cheek from the lip to the eye. I personally euthanized the dog. He had to have three surgeries to fix the scar, the last one when he was a teenager.
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In the 10 years from 2009 to 2018, pit bulls killed or maimed 3,569 people in the USA and Canada. (Merritt Clifton, Dog Attack Deaths & Maimings, U.S. & Canada, 1982-2018 Log.) They killed over 80% of all Americans who are killed by dogs. (Colleen Lynn, 2015 U.S. Dog Bite Fatalities, at http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2015.php.)
I can't imagine owning a pit bull at all but owning one with children is so irresponsible. The damage any dog can inflict in a couple of seconds is often life changing (scars) if not death. It's just irresponsible. My oldest son was attacked by a family members' pit mix when he was 7. It happened in millisecond. He had a nasty, raised scar on his cheek from the lip to the eye. I personally euthanized the dog. He had to have three surgeries to fix the scar, the last one when he was a teenager.