Well I am here to tell a different story, one about a little lost pit name Gypsy.
I get a call from Wendy "guess what I have in the car". I found her on the highway limping and I could not leave her. This was the picture that was sent to me. Love at 1s sight.
We decided to let a friend of our put her in one of her empty kennels until we figured out what to do. The vet gave her clean bill of health and the limp, well it was an old injury that was not set or tended to so she will forever have a limp. (insert awwwww's here).
We went to bed that night wondering how we would find her a home. Got a call at 6am, she was gone. She had dug out of her kennel and could not be found. We looked for her all day with no luck. Meantime about 8miles a way at another friends house a stray dog showed up but would not let anyone near her. She was tan and yep...had a limp. We moved our search miles down the road but never found her.
Imagine that call two days later at 6am. She was back at the original house just sitting outside the fence. That little dog w/a limp had traveled over 16miles between two of our friends houses, over a mountain, major highway and all had taken place over three days. Boy did she stink!!
What I have learned about pits.....they are sweet, docile, loving, strong and gentle. They are fiercely loyal and want nothing more than to be loved and near you. In the late 1800's they were used as baby sitter due to their nurturing personalities and demeanor.
Gypsy is still at our house(since March). She is now crate trained, house trained and in great health. That limp..shh don't tell her she has one, she does not know. She retrieves like our labs and loves to wrestle.
We have a red heeler, she tolerates most dogs, but 100% prefers people. Well she has found a new BFF. Yep a pit and a heeler...who would have ever thought.
If ever you hear "those" stories remember just like people, good and bad is everywhere, it's not the breed.
Some are beaten, tortured and forced to be fighters, some end up in life as bait, some are just for breeding and some..well some of them are just big headed smiling goofballs.
