Originally Posted by sleeves

You've obviously never owned a pit. They are the most loving, loyal dogs you will ever find. Any dog can be groomed to be mean, its all in how you raise them. I've seen viscous golden retrievers. The only problem with pits is that its become cool for idiots to own them, kind of like a fashion trend. There is a hell of a lot better dogs to bread for fighting like presa canaries for instance. There are several breads that have similar features to a pit bull and people often don't know the difference. If you take some jack ass kid that owns a pit because he saw it on a rap video and swap out the pit for another dog, do you think he's going to raise it any differently? If you saw a Rhodesian Ridgeback you'd probably think it was a sweet looking dog. Rhodesian ridgebacks were bread to hunt lions way back when and can very easily be a vicious dog in the wrong hands.