I personally would not chance it with my kids. We have had two pit bull attacks in our area and neither were provolked they just attacked. My daughter witnessed one from the bus as they were coming home from school...the dog attacked a jogger and then attacked a child that exited the bus...that was one incident. The second incident was a man walking his dog with his three year old and two pitbulls came up and attacked the other dog. We had a police officer that just happened to be driving through the neighborhood on patrol and he shot both pitbulls.