Reply #51: i agree they are friendly dogs BUT

[iamthebandfanman]

i think thats only when dealing with people (unless trained otherwise).

my BEST friend had a BUNCH of pitbulls(bread them for a while) and they were the SWEETEST dogs i have ever met and were nice to EVERY person they encountered...

other animals... that was another story...
my friend DEFINITELY did not train them to be vicious either BUT

when he would take them for walks they would lunge at almost ANY animal that came near that they werent familiar with(i guess a perceived threat).....

my friend and his dad were out splitting logs for a neighbor one evening when his normally calm dog calmly approach a goat that was in the same fiend and proceeded to lunge at it mouth open. it grabbed the goat by the side and pulled it to the ground. the goat died and my friend hadta pay for it.

like i say, the dog was calm and friendly to everybody it met... it just didnt care much for other animals especially if it was unfamiliar with it.

i tend to think thats just how some of them can be. whether they are bread that way or not.
they are very protective.