Originally Posted By: Rocky1Uhmmmm... The biggest dog don't always win, the most agile dog frequently has a decided advantage in a dog fight, and it takes but a split second for a game bred pit to take advantage of an opening. Bigger and stronger is no real advantage when you have 1600 PSI, (the crush strength exerted by a bulldog's jaw), wrapped around your esophagus.
Furthermore, if a wolf is such a badass in a fight, why do they run in packs?
That's a vote for the wolf then. They are far more agile and way faster/quicker than a pit. I have a customer who had a 120# pit killed by a wolf at his house near Libby, MT. He went looking for the dog, found it stone dead in the snow. There was only one set of wolf prints leaving the kill, and it was just tracks, no blood at all. I knew this dog, and he was a big tough pup (meaner than a rattlesnake too, I didn't morn his passing at all).
As to the pack mentality, it makes everything easier for them. Higher success rate hunting, more eyes to spot other critters, allows younger wolves to learn from older more experienced ones. People who haven't dealt with wolves have a very tough time understanding just how smart they really are, a coyote is naive by comparison because he isn't being taught by several others every day of his life.
