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In reply to the discussion: Children Need Pit Bulls: A Picture Book [View all]Boudica the Lyoness
(2,899 posts)Pit Bulls were often called Bull dogs or Pit dogs. I have seen a newspaper story about a pit bulls in the mid 1800's killing humans. They were bred to fight and that's what they do.
1909 boy killed by pit bull. The dogs owner was Colby the legendary pit bull breeder;
NEWBURYPORT, Feb 2, 1909 -- Bert, the 2-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Walter Leadbetter of Lynn, was killed this afternoon by a fighting bull terrier, owned by his uncle, John P. Colby, at 36 Franklin st.
Mrs Leadbetter and her son had come here to visit her brother, who is a dog fancier. The little fellow wandered into the yard where the kennels are.
The dog sprang at the child's neck and growling ferociously shook him like a rag. Then the savage animal, dropping its prey, snapped at other portions of the body, inflicting a number of wounds.
Mr Colby ran out, drove the dog away and bore the child into the house. He was faintly breathing, but quickly all signs of life disappeared. Medical Examiner Hurd, who was called, found that the backbone and spine had been broken at the base of the brain. The other wounds, while serious, were not necessarily fatal.
http://www.dogsbite.org/fatalities/1909-bert-colby-leadbetter.pdf
Another 100 yr + story of a pit mix killing his mistress;
http://www.dogsbite.org/fatalities/1901-carrie-cobus.pdf
Pit Bull kills baby 1945;
http://www.dogsbite.org/fatalities/1945-marguerite-theresa-derdenger.pdf
1909 Pit bulls kills man;
http://www.dogsbite.org/fatalities/1909-carl-limpert.pdf
1947 pit bull kills boy;
http://www.dogsbite.org/fatalities/1947-stanley-balaban.pdf
1949 Pit bulls kill woman;
http://www.dogsbite.org/fatalities/1945-doretta-zinke-1.pdf
1897 Pit bull disfigured woman for life;
http://www.dogsbite.org/fatalities/1897-julia-carey.pdf
1906 Pit bull bites boy;
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/500657190.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec%2029,%201906&author=&pub=Boston%20Daily%20Globe&edition=&startpage=&desc=BOY%20BITTEN,%20GIRL%20ESCAPES
There are many more stories like these.....and from newspapers in the UK.
Instead of reciting the pit bull nutter's propaganda, maybe you should research the facts.