There are many insurance companies that do allow pits or other "dangerous" breeds such as dobe's, rotties, shepards.
I work with a pit bull rescue and work with a local organization trying to help with spay/neuters and the education of people about pit bulls. Alot of you should check it out
http://thepositivepitbull.org/
I realize that the breed has a terrible name. I personally have 3 pit members of my family.......and a schnauzer. The schnauzer is the trouble maker of the group. Last year we fostered over 25 pits and there are all kinds of crappy owners out there. We have had to put down a dog b/c of its aggressive nature but 24 were fine. Alot of these dogs are chained up outside, rarely fed, and when released or escape have zero social skills and are aggressive.
I've seen numerous posts in here regarding the fact that you don't see labs bite. That is 100% false. Dog attacks happen regardless of breed. The media has a particular fascination with the pit bull because it draws attention. Most dogs identified as pit bulls are not even pits.
Any of the non pit owners can try this:
http://www.pitbullsontheweb.com/petbull/findpit.html
and I guarantee most of you will fail as does animal control. If you take a walk through the shelters there are labs, etc labeled as pits b/c of a lack of identification.
Back to the point. Most of these "attacks" come from a lack of socialization and poor ownership. The target "buyer" of pits has become the problem just as rotties had problems 10 years ago. The media used to portray rotties, dobe's, and sheps the same way but now its the pit bulls turn.
During our events I have seen some horrid treatment of animals and owners that encourage this poor behavior. These dogs are owner pleasers and any form of rewarding this behavior will cause problems.
Another person noted that more people kill people than any dog and this is just a sub category of this. Owners train dogs and in all honesty if you started neutering dumb mother f***kers instead of condemning the dogs there would be less attacks and problems across the board.
I don't blame dogs...........I blame people
Now if anyone would like to form an opinion first hand feel free to contact me and you can come over and get licked to death by my 3 monsters.
