I'd like to introduce you to my boys...

[RoseyPosey]

I have one 1 1/2 year old Pit Bull named Cooper... he is by far the best squirrel chaser ever...lol. My bulbs love him. DJ is a one year old yellow lab who grew too fast and now he has hip problems. Thats okay Cooper helps him get around. Together they terrorize my wildflower garden and pee on my roses... but I love them. Does anyone else own these breeds? I hope nobody freaks out about the pit bull.... they're not as the media and ignorant people make them seem.

[ravenhawk]

Ive never had pits but had a rottweiler that was the biggest baby ive ever seen. My sister and a friend of mine both had pits and while they were strong they were gentle and loving animals. Yours sound like wonderful furbabies. I currently have a lab/rott mix and he is wonderful, all 100 lbs of him

[TransplantShock]

tow of my friends have pits---one an old family red nose that is built as big around as a barrel. She's a total sweety and you can play rough with her and she's very gentle for her size. The other friend has a little pit about a year old. Very quite and sweet dog. Both dogs are shop dogs that live in pet shops so they are very accustomed to being around people. It's all about how you raise them, jsut like any dog. Because of their strength it does make them MORE dangerous if you do have a mean one but if well socialized, well trained and treated well (like any dog) they are great animals. I have nothing against pits, I have something against people who mistreat animals though inorder to "make them a mean guard dog"

[RoseyPosey]

thank you :) Mine don't guard me... I guard them.. LOL. A lot of bad people around here would love to steal him for blood sports... but I won't let that happen...Thats who we got ADT for... LOL. :)
I have this bumper sticker (since I'm real big on anti-BSL) it reads: "So Your Afraid Of Pit Bulls??? Do you have any idea how many sex offendors live in your neighborhood???"

[arcticwolf8]

Rosey,

I have an 1/2 goldlab1/2 beagel she is all gold and white like the lab but is a little smaller becauseof the beagel and the way the gold and white are you can see the begal markings. she is about 6 years old born on christmas morning about 4 am. My other is a jack russell and spanial, she was a pound puppy and approx, 7 1/2 yrs.
my Dad has hank 1/2pitt you can see in the face.. 1/2 lab..........
when someone is afraid of him he just gives them this look like whats up dude.........I like people I ain't gonna bit, He get so confused when my nephew goes over and is afraid, he really dosn't understand as he is so gental the greatgrand kids climb all over him.....
I am learning to get over my fear of german sheppards as I was attacked by 1 for no reason,wasn't even close to him and his owner/handler was in the house...I was bout 7 when that happened and it was a retired police dog....... So like TPS said it is all in how they are raised and/or trained....

[RoseyPosey]

I'm sorry to hear that. I too have been bitten by dogs... too many to recall really... lol. The last dog I was bitten by was about 3 weeks ago and it was my Aunts Rott/Chow mix. I smacked the crap out of him and told my aunt that she better come say good-bye to her dog. But I didn't blame the breed... her dog is just unsocialized and unloved. He's about 6 months old and I'm currently helping socialize him. The worst dog bite I ever got was from a Yorkie... I still hate that dog... he had no excuse. He's loved and socialized but he's still anxious, bipolar, and about has a heart attack when someone walks by... I think those are the dogs you have to watch out for... thank god they're not any larger.

[Dave McCormick]

I like pittbulls, but in Northern Ireland, its against the law to own one. Anyway, I used to have a black lab, love them, she was part pittbull cross. You could see it.

I love dogs even though I was bitten on the arm by a alsation when I was 7. My grans neighbour had a alsation and has two gardens. One had a fence across hedge to stop it getting out, but she put it in wrong one and it escaped and grabbed my arm with its teeth. Lucky I had a woolen jumper on and it did not do damage. Scary, but I still like dogs.

[Pennylee]

I appreciate the fact that any dog that is loved and at the same time
well brought up can be both gentle and have a reasonable IQ.

Sadly, we have had some actual fatalities with pit bulls here,
as well as "incidents" involving mauling in public places, so these dogs are
pretty well restricted breeds now. We too have had episodes of dog
fighting, held in distant rural areas.

We were unlucky enough at one stage to have a very old neglected house
next to us which was being rented out to more and more undesirable
people, including one lot who tried to keep five pit bulls.
Only two of any kind are allowed in the suburbs. If I dared to go out to, for instance, hang up the washing, the
dogs resented it deeply and showed every sign of wanting to destroy me
from behind the thin fence. The dominant dog actually turned round and took a deliberate run up so he could charge at the fence and get to me.
Eventually one escaped and challenged passers-by on the footpath. Unlucky
for them, but lucky for us when the dogs and their owners departed.
Of course these owners have contributed to blackening the reputation of
the breed. It was a great relief to us when the house was ordered to be
demolished and we could live in peace again.

[boo]

I'm so glad you weren't hurt, Pennylee. I have seen the good & bad of the breed too. The strength of the breed isn't something to argue with but like the others, I agree it's the owners that really give pits a bad rap.

We had one next door that was gentle as could be and a real joy to have him visit. This was before all the pit hoopla, now good pit owners keep their dogs pretty close in fear of having them taken away. I've also seen the ugly where negligent owners had packs of them and they killed a local girl.

Dog fighting is very popular here. Surprisingly though it's not always :rolleyes: the skanks in the dark alley but the bigger problem is the upper class that can hold these private fights on estates where they are less likely to be caught.

[Sneezie]

:)My son has a Yellow Lab. The sweetest dearest girl.

[jennie]

Hey sneezie how is your daughters dog doing? The one with cancer, last we heard he had lost weight and was doing better.

[RoseyPosey]

I'm sorry that most of you has seen the negative side. But there's bad dogs of every breed. I've owned many breeds before I got into Pit Bulls and they've always stuck with me. I once had a Pit Bull who saved me from a wild boar when I was about 15... thank god. She didn't make it out so good, had to be euthanised due to the severe injuries. But she made sure that I made it out unharmed. Cooper, the one that I have now is one of her puppies. I hope that he'd be as loyal as she was if it came down to it.. I hope it never comes down to it though. He is a character. Today I was trying to talk to me boyfriend... through the bathroom door (you all know how that is.. LOL) and EVERY time I'd try to start a sentence Cooper would interrupt by doing this little "WOO WOO" howl thing that he does. I had to put him outside before I could get a word out! He doesn't bark, never heard him bark before and I've had him since he was born. All he does is what we call his "WOO WOO" howl. :)

[Paula Roberts]

RP - Did you post of picture of your boys? If you did, I cant see it. I'd love to see them. I have always loved Pits, but must admit I am a little nervous around ones owned by people I dont know. It's not the dog, but the owners that you have to beware of. Just after High School (a loooong time ago) I was "fixed up" with a guy who bred and trained them and when he'd "show them off" it scared the poo out of me. Looking back, i truly wonder if he wasnt training them to fight. He had an old tractor tire hanging up 4 feet or so in his back yard, and he'd have his dog run and jump and bite and hang from the tire. While he was up there he'd wrestle with it. He was trained to not let go until he just couldnt hold on. Lets just say he'd hold on for a very long time.It was a great example of the dogs strength, but it also scared me at the same time. The power those dogs have in their jaws. His name was Hercules. He was solid red except for a little white at his throat. And SOLID MUSCLE . Boy, that was a blast from the past. . . .

[TransplantShock]

I know some great pits, and they are both shop dogs for diffrent shops. Gentle dogs, and fun to play with. One is little and one is a big old family red nose as round as a barral and as sweet as can be. Saddly, if you have a pit around here, it might get stollen as there is a big dog fighting ring around here :( pits get stollen all the time :(

[RoseyPosey]

I didn't post pics of them yet. I'm still trying to figure this darned computer out. I know of some people who let they're dogs hang but from ropes not tires. The dogs like it and it gets a lot of they're energy out. My dog doesn't hang... but I did teach him to climb a ladder and slide down the slide! LOL. He also lays in the hammok with me and sleeps on my lap in our rocking chair. Did I mention he's 95lbs and I'm 105! But he'll always be my baby.

[Audwoman]

I have not owned a dog for 28 years. The last one I had was a mix of I do not know what. But he was the love of my life. When he died I said that is the last I cannot take the heartbreak. He lifed longer than any dog I had ever had (20 yrs),

I have had Collies, German Shepards, Iris Setter, poodle. I have never had a Pitt Bull but I have had friends that had one and all he did was drool on my cloths that did not make me happy. But he was a sweetheart.

I am into cats and birds. I know the birds live to be 90 - 100 so he can weep for me when I die on him.

[RoseyPosey]

Aww... lol. I'm looking right now to buy a new four legged friend. I want a chicken first though... :)