Pit bull
d pit bull 
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| Difficulty | 12 |
| Attacks | |
| Base level | 11 |
| Base experience | 241 |
| Speed | 15 |
| Base AC | 4 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 800 |
| Nutritional value | 250 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | None |
| Resistances conveyed | None |
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A pit bull:
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| Reference | src/monst.c, line 421 |
A pit bull, d, is a type of monster that appears in SLASH'EM, SlashTHEM and Hack'EM. The pit bull is a medium-sized and carnivorous canine animal that is strong and can be seen via infravision. Pit bulls are domestic similar to normal dogs, and the hero can tame them by throwing any type of meat or rations at them that they can eat, and can pacify them by throwing veggy food at them. During a full moon, pit bulls have a 5⁄6 chance of becoming peaceful instead of tame when throwing acceptable food to them, and this will never result in them becoming hostile.[1]
A pit bull has a single bite attack.
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Generation
Randomly generated pit bulls may be created as peaceful towards neutral heroes. They are not randomly generated in Gehennom.
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, pit bulls appear among the random d that are part of the first quest monster class for Samurai and make up 24⁄175 of the monsters randomly generated on the Samurai quest. They also appear among the random d that are part of the second quest monster class for Yeomen and make up 6⁄175 of the monsters randomly generated on the Yeoman quest.
SlashTHEM
In SlashTHEM, pit bulls appear in the same capacity for Samurai and Yeomen as in SLASH'EM. They also appear among the random d that are part of the first quest monster class for Ninjas and make up 24⁄175 of the monsters randomly generated on the Ninja quest.
Hack'EM
In Hack'EM, pit bulls appear in the same capacity for Samurai and Yeomen as in SLASH'EM. They also appear among the random d that are part of the first quest monster class for Infidels and make up 24⁄175 of the monsters randomly generated on the Infidel quest.
Strategy
Pit bulls are much stronger than even large dogs, with the same movement speed of 15 and a bite that can deal twice as much damage. Fortunately, hostile ones should be little trouble for a hero that encounters them in normal circumstances, and at worst spare "acceptable" food can be thrown to avert a fight if necessary—remember that thrown cream pies, eggs, and melons will splatter on their face.
As pets, a pit bull's higher base level makes them capable of gaining far more HP and allows them to attack shopkeepers and aligned priests with a better chance of survival, though a hero that intends to use them for this purpose should still support them with healing spells and other similar abilities. However, they still have many similar shortcomings to other domestic canines, namely their inability to deal with monsters that have any form of enchantment resistance.
Of note is that eating a pit bull's corpse or tin does not grant aggravate monster as other domestic canines do.
History
The pitbull first appears in NetHack-- 3.0.10, and also appears in NetHack-- 3.1.3 and SLASH 6. In NetHack-- 3.0.10, it uses the d glyph—in NetHack-- 3.1.3, it instead uses the d glyph, while in SLASH 6 it uses d. SLASH'EM changes the pit bull's glyph back to the one used in NetHack-- 3.0.10.
Origin
"Pit bull" is an umbrella term for several types of dog believed to have descended from crossbreeds between Old English Bulldogs and terriers. Most pit bull–type dogs descend from the British bull and terrier, a 19th-century dog-fighting type developed from crosses between the Old English bulldog and the Black and Tan Terrier.
In the United States, the term is usually considered to include the American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, American Bully, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, and sometimes the American Bulldog, along with any crossbred dog that shares certain physical characteristics with them—in the United Kingdom and other countries, the term is used specifically for the American Pit Bull Terrier, excluding the Staffordshire Bull Terrier.
Pit bull–type dogs have a controversial reputation as pets internationally, due to their history in dog fighting (which has long since been made illegal in the US and UK), the number of high-profile attacks documented in the media over decades, and their proclivity to latch on while biting—several nations and jurisdictions restrict the ownership of pit bull–type dogs through breed-specific legislation, while pro-pit bull lobbies exist that oppose such regulations and both fund and advocate for pit bull research. This has been the basis of a highly contentious nature-versus-nurture debate over whether aggressive tendencies in pit bulls may be appropriately attributed to owners' poor care for and competency to handle the dog, or inherent qualities owing to their breeding for fighting purposes.
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Encyclopedia entry
- See the encyclopedia entry for dog.
