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So my daughter comes to visit with her boyfriend’s Pit Bull he adopted from a rescue. I am a dog lover and have been around various breeds as far back as I can remember but I am a little apprehensive due to the breeds reputation but tell myself I am going to keep an open mind. I have two standard poodles and everyone seemed to be getting along fine all day. Then low and behold two of them were tugging on a Frisbee when all of a sudden the Pit Bull lets go of the Frisbee and goes for my dog’s throat giving it the death shake. My daughter and I jump in I have both hands in this dogs mouth trying to get him to let go of my dogs throat and let me tell you those jaws were not budging. Not sure how long this went on for or what exactly made him let go but my dog got away at one point and left me with both hands still in this dog’s mouth holding it off the ground except its two back feet. Told my daughter to get my dogs in the house and I was not sure what to do next. Was not sure if I let this thing go at this point if it would come after me but I knew I could not hold on much longer. Thought about throwing it over the second story porch but ended up letting go without any further aggression. End result 5 staples in my dogs neck and antibiotics for 14 days, my daughter had her hand punctured in the process and required x-rays and antibiotics, and I am not sure how but other than a small cut on the inside of my thumb and scratches from his claws trying to get away from me and bleeding pretty good from the scratches I came out unscathed. I called animal control to report and figure the proper way to handle this but because the animal was a guest and did not attack an individually they said there is nothing really that can be done to make sure this does not happen again. I am not sure what her boyfriend is going to do at this point but if it was my dog love it or not I think I would have to put it down so there is no possibility something like this happens again but not my call. If there was not human intervention I am pretty sure things would have ended much differently. It is amazing how you just react to these situations without thought but afterwards reflect back and say to yourself that was one crazy situation I never want to go through again! I know this happens with many different breeds on occasion but what I think is different is how powerful this things jaws were and how quickly serious damage can be done. Pretty scary! Just venting!