Glad you and your dog are ok. I had to deal with exactly the same shit in Florida to the point I stopped walking my dogs at night. Pit bulls attract the least qualified owners worse than a gold plated desert eagle with laser sights.
The final straw for me was my wife and I were walking our two dogs, when I saw two loose pitbulls. I handed her the leash in my hand and told her to keep walking. I got the pitbulls to pay attention to me, pulled my P7s and started back peddling. If they'd have followed my wife I'd have killed them both. The followed me across the street and if they continued onto the sidewalk, I'd have killed them both. For some reason once I stopped they stopped and decided not to push it.
I got home, called the police and found out the teenage kid at the house had let them into the yard so he could hose the dog crap off the back porch, he left the fence gate open. The cop told the family that a licensed gun carrier came within a couple feet of killing both of their dogs. It really pissed me off that every 5th or 6th house had a irresponsible dog owner, one of the many, many reasons I eventually sold my house and moved.
In the 5 years I've been in Iowa I've only had to deal with it one time, a little yip dog that some shithead just opened the front door and let out. It took a lot of effort to keep my GSD from killing it since it perceived the yip dog running down the driveway barking at us as a threat. Pissed me off to correct my dog from doing everything it had been trained to do. I so much wanted to kick punt the damn thing back into it's own yard but it isn't the dogs fault the owner is a f'ing retard.
In your case, I would press charges, the life you save will be the next little kid that just happens to be on the sidewalk when those dipshits open the door again. Them letting a little girl try and control their pit bull is like me handing an Uzi to the little girl next door and being surprised when something bad happens.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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