Yes I have. Conversation went like this:
Him: "That a pit?"
Me: "No. She is an American Pit Bull Terrier. However, she's dug a few pits in the backyard."
Him: "You fight her?"
Me: "Excuse me? What do you think?"
Him: "You want to? My buddy.....blah blah blah."
Me: "You ever spent a night in jail?"
Him: "Huh?"
Me: "You want to?"
He then drove off. I get a lot of comments from passer-bys if I am walking the dogs on the main road by my house, but I get more comments on my OEB being a "huge pit bull" or "nice pit" while my true APBTs get comments such as "she's/he's small.....what's she/he mixed with?"
As for "bait" dogs, thank the HSUS for that one. "Bait" animals didn't exist until the HSUS said they did. They basically came up with quite a creative piece of fiction and published it as a "How To Fight Your Overweight Mutt You Call a Pit Bull" for all the street thugs to read. Thus these street thugs became street fighters overnight all because they now how instructions on how to do things.
Basically the HSUS spewed filth such as the bait dog/cat theory, the idea that dogment fed their dogs gunpowder/TNT/broken glass to "make them mean", that they starved them the day before a fight to "make them hungry for another dog" (I had no idea canines resorted to canibalism after a one-day fast
), & other crap like that. None of the true dogmen that created the APBT employed any of those stupid and foolish practices, but since the HSUS said the did, they ignorant street thugs took them at their word & thus the practices became real.