I love pitbulls like crazy and have three really awesome ones. So I'm like dogman amongst my friends. They come to me asking advice all the time. Well this one guy I know is one of those types with more dollars than sense. Everything he has is some sort of showpiece. So when he asked me about dogs my advice was DON'T GET ONE. But he wouldn't listen. So he starts looking at Boerboels (google image search imo) and I really ramped it up. "You are fucking stupid if you get that dog". But no, him having just remodeled his $500K house with sweet hardwoods, his yard being one third the size of postage stamp, him having never had a dog before, his Hindu wife that weighs 40lbs less than the projected weight of the adult dog and other such factors could not deter him at all.
So he spent $3000 to buy the thing. Except that it had to be flown in from Denmark. That's another grand right there.
Immediately the thing couldn't hang. My buddies had just gotten a pitbull and an olde english bulldogge. It was plainly obvious that this boerboel wasn't the same caliber as far as brain power goes. Not to mention the fact that he was viewed and treated as a toy by his owners. So he started having food bowl issues. At about five months he bit the living fuck out of the wife's arm leaving a hole that looked like she'd been run through by a #2 pencil. So do they listen to the master of dogs who lives just down the street with the obedience champ pitbulls? Oh no, the only plausible solution is to fly the breeder in from Denmark of course. So the breeder comes to visit and gets them crawling around on their hands and knees and shit for like three fucking weeks. All expenses paid.
Did it help? Fuck no. The man is a technical recruiter and is opening a new office in Denver. He went down there for three weeks just before the breeder got to town and right after she left he went back to Denver for two whole months.
Fast forward to December 21st. He flies in from Denver, greets his wife and five thousand dollar toy animal and then beelines it to the nearest bar to get wasted. So they trundle their irresponsible asses back through the door at 3am. Wasted like fuck. They get ready for bed with the dog laying on his bed next to the people bed. So my buddy jumps in bed and leans over to get in the dog's face to spout some babytalk shit an HI-YAA!!! The fucker bit him right on the mouth. He needed ALOT of stitches.
The gore in this pic makes my busted melon from the afro thread look like amateur night.
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/8835/toddfaceuq9.jpgMoral of the story: Don't be a stupid big spender douchebag about your choice of pets. Rescue a pitbull for free because they need it.