Its a big house with a very large fenced in back yard, so they never get walked anyhow. Also Romeo is always tied up when outside without supervision.

Did you all miss this part of the last post?

Hi Trouble No I didn't, I read the initial post and not the responses so missed the suplimentary post. Sometimes in 'difficult' posts I like avoid reading the posts of others so I can comment without being 'influenced' by their words

Edited to add I see, that does rather answer my questions..

Romeo may never attack another dog but we can never be sure
They probably thought that of the one that killed the little girl after the first time when he tried to attack a man. if he were in your house Mini, would you risk it?
Dawn.

Hi Dawn with certain qualifications as mentioned in my post, yes. As far as we know from buylers post Romeo has never attacked anything other than Max.
Having now seen the supplementary post that says

Its a big house with a very large fenced in back yard, so they never get walked anyhow. Also Romeo is always tied up when outside without supervision.

I would have to say that this does alter things somewhat.

There is much written about dog aggression, people talk about aggressive and none aggressive dogs but I think all dogs have a tolerance level and the ability to become aggressive in certain circumstances eg when they are ill, when fear/ prey drive/hormones/lack of socialisation take them over their level of tolerance.

Think about it in human terms, even placid non aggressive people can be roused to violence if faced with danger or extreme pain (as anyone who has experienced childbirth will agree) .

I think the tolerance levels varies from dog to dog and contributory factors are the temperaments of the parents, how a dog has been socialised, copes with fear and a dog's hormone levels. It would seem that some breeds are predisposed to be more aggressive than others depending on their original purpose.

For these reasons I would never trust any dog 100% and certainly not with children.

Looking at it logically, if we all overreacted every time there is a terrible accident none of us would ever have a dogs just in case they turned nasty one day .

Fair comment Mini, but there would never be a minute I would trust a Pit Bull that has bitten another dog, seen it all too often, and this, to me is a perfect example, ticking time bomb.

No thanks, i would think too much of my existing dogs to risk it.

I agree with reading the "tied up" bit, however I believe this is a commonplace practice in parts of the US, glad its not routinely done here.
Dawn.

Dawn I think if I were to be tied up and never taken out it would certainly stretch my tolerance levels...

A Pitbull would not be my first choice of dog anyway lovely as they are, the very fact that they are bred for a specific purpose means they require special handling and every attention paid to socialisation anyway.

Personnally I think the decision lies with the parents, and we can all have perfect vision in hindsight but I do feel the warning signs were there for all to see, if only they knew what they were looking at. Ticking timebomb sums it up Dawn.

Hi Trouble are you talking about baylers parents

Can we all please stick to the problem bayler is having and aggression in the context of this dog.

Please note the new quidelines..
http://www.dogsey.com/showpost.php?p...7&postcount=33

Sorry, yes I think the decision lies with Baylers parents as they are the ones involved in the day to day care of the dog, and will have to deal with him from now on. I fully understand what a difficult decision it must be for them, but I do believe from reading the posts all the warning signs were there for all to see.
Can't see where I have gone off topic though

When our pitbull attacked she was rehomed with my mams friend who had years experience in the breed but sadly attacked again and had to be pts.