They'll attack anything they think is a threat to themselves, whether it's a human or whether it's another dog and they won't stop attacking until that alleged threat to their safety disappears.

Parents teach their children stranger danger, but they also need to be teaching them about dealing with dogs.

The problem is these dogs are bred solely to fight, so they have a very low threshold of tolerance of other dogs and if they feel as though they're threatened in any way, this genetic conditioning kicks in and they become a raging beast,

The thing that has to be done ? the final nail of the coffin ? is to ban the trade of American pit bull terriers, ... In other words you can't buy one because it is illegal.

The fact of life is that the community doesn't want American pit bull terriers. They've said it loud and clear over and over again - they want them banned,

It's getting closer and closer to the point where they will be finally declared illegal to own,