@thatguyoverthere Does he try to play with electric things or wall sockets, when no one is looking?
There was one little girl in my family that we could not teach to swim quickly enough. With her fascination with water, she should have been taught yesterday! Education is the best remedy, I would guess, but every electrician I know has been shocked at least once where they still feel it the next day.
Do you think letting him lick a 9v battery would be just encourage him? That was a tard game we played as children, but for only a very short amount of time.
I have seen so many of those stories, the pitbulls attacking, supposedly out of character, that I would not risk it. It's sad when a breed has been abused and neglected to the point of dangerous antisocial behavior, used culturally in a different context than what an adopter would hope. The safety of children comes first in the hierarchy, not the cuteness of dogs.
I knew a girl that was mutilated by a dog bite as a young child. Broken arms are not minor. Dogs are serious.
@thatguyoverthere@BowsacNoodle I have had good luck with rescue dogs, but the last one, mixed breed, was fully trained to be a good housemate before she arrived to me. This time, I had to travel to a different city not to get a pitbull; I personally like them, when they are socialized, but I simply do not have the physical strength to train a near-grown dog with the musculature of a pitbull, not even counting whatever history it would bring.
Plus, I travel fairly often, and I could not have a dog that people fear.
Children and animals always need supervision. It's odd when people don't understand this.