Pit bulls are dogs that are highly misunderstood and mistaken, more than any other dog breed. ‘Dangerous’, ‘mean’, ‘aggressive’, and ‘strong’ are a few words synonymous to Pit bulls. Setting everything apart, are Pit bulls really strong and worth the hype?\u00a0<\/span>Yes, Pit bulls are a strong dog breed with great agility and athleticism. Either pound to pound or in terms of power and stamina, Pit bulls are the strongest dog in the category of similar dog breeds with about the same strength values.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

However, they aren’t mean and aggressive as people say they are. These rumors are just what they are- rumors and hoax. Let’s learn more about Pit bulls and understand how they are greatly mistaken by humans.<\/span><\/p>\n

How strong are Pit Bulls (considering every factor)?<\/span><\/h1>\n

If we tell you that Pit bulls aren’t as strong as the ‘powerful breeds’ like the German Shepherd and Rottweiler, we’d be wrong. The strength of a dog depends on its weight, gameness, agility, behavioral patterns, power, and stamina, thus comparing one dog breed to the other with completely different strength factors can be misleading and erroneous.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When we consider the pound-to-pound factor, the pit bull is probably the strongest dog on earth. It may lack the size of the huge dogs, but never mistake its average size for weakness.\u00a0<\/span>In proportion, it could be the strongest dog in the lightest body<\/span><\/strong>, weighing nothing more than 35 pounds. What Pit bulls lack in size, make up with the extreme stamina and stubbornness, which sometimes translates to determination.<\/span><\/p>\n

They are bred to incorporate a lot of strength and power with great athleticism, and that is one reason why they are so muscular. They are probably the best dog breed when you talk of infusing both athleticism and power into one.<\/span><\/p>\n

They have balanced behavioral patterns that means your dog will behave the way you have trained it to behave. They have a well-balanced physical and mental posture, and Pit bulls with their strong determination and intelligence don’t stop until they have solved a mental challenge which makes them smarter than most other dogs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pitbulls have gameness, man. It’s a real thing for them. They don’t quit or stop till the work is done. Sadly, this is one trait that lures dogfighting fanciers to hauling more of them into the pit where a lot of them are injured and sometimes die because they don’t know how to stop. <\/span><\/p>\n

Many times it depends on the training whether your dog is going to be a fighting dog, a guard dog, or a family dog. However, a few traits remain the same, either a little suppressed or in full form.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s wrong to say that Pit bulls don’t make good family dogs, but it is advised not to keep them around the children and infants. We know there are exceptions, but there are risks too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To come to conjecture, a Pit bull is a really powerful and strong dog achieving strength that is unmatched by most other dog breeds.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Do Pit Bulls have a lock jaw mechanism?<\/span><\/h1>\n

Pit bulls have a veil of myth wrapped around them that once they bite their bait, they activate their locking jaw mechanism. We’ll clear this once and for all-\u00a0<\/span>Pit Bulls don’t have locking jaws.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0In fact, no dog breed harnesses a lock jaw mechanism when it comes to letting go of the bite.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pit bulls don’t have any sort of enzyme or physical mechanism, making them lock their jaws around the bait and this is proven and strongly supported by the structure of their skull. When you compare the skull of a Pit bull and any other dog breed, you’ll notice that both of them have the same skull structure and bone structure. If the Pit bull had a lock jaw mechanism, there would have been visible and significant changes in its skull and bone structure in comparison to other dog breeds.<\/span><\/p>\n

The strong grip on the bait doesn’t come from some physical trait but a personality trait instead. When we talk of Pit bulls, we generally mean\u00a0<\/span>‘American Pit bull terriers’,\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>and the terrier in the name translates to stubbornness and tenacity. <\/span><\/p>\n

They’d latch and pull back and forth with quick jutting movements on what they bite down with a great force that makes people think they have a locking jaw. No, it’s just the Pit bulls’ way of saying, “I’ mma not letting this thing go unless I want to. Do whatever you want.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Why don’t Pit bulls let go of the bite so easily?<\/h2>\n

The answer’s in their origin and history of Pit bulls in association with dog-fighting and bull-baiting. Pitbulls were produced with the sole motive to have a better and developed species at bull-baiting and bloodsport (instead of bulldogs). <\/span><\/p>\n

They were trained to buck wildly and be able to hang onto their bait when they were pitted against each other. Later, Pitbulls and terriers were crossbred to retain some characteristics that included hanging onto their prey (when the dog fighting and bull baiting practices were outlawed).<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, if you want to go chummy with a pit bull without being in his ‘I know this guy list’, be ready to experience an excruciating amount of pain since\u00a0<\/span>they aren’t your regular cuddle-dogs, they had, ever since their origin, trained to be fight dogs<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n