When I was in high school, my mom picked an injured female Pit-bull of the road, got her patched up at the vet, and we kept her for a while. Unfortunately, we had two cockers and had had to keep her separate while her broken pelvis was healing so she never got socialized with our dogs. She attacked one when she was feeling better and we decided to get her a new home. But she was the sweetest thing ever, even when she was hurting. She seemed to know that we were helping her.

The one thing I would say about a pit bull is that they are extremely strong. Our Pit's jaw was a big lump of muscle and she chewed the heck out of the dinning room table (she was a younger dog). With regards to them being dangerous, I think that Pits just do damage so much quicker than other dogs that that's the real reason you have to be more careful. What would be a standard fight for other dogs is more likely to turn bloody with a Pit, even if they are not really that mad.

Carina