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When I was stationed overseas, the fighter pilots called the tower one night to say they couldn't land because there was a stray dog on the runway.I picked up a puppy on a relatively busy country road where she had apparently been abandoned and she turned out to be one of the nicest dogs we ever had. The ASPCA offers a reasonable charge for neutering and it's a good idea.
Don't buy a dog. Rescue one.
I have not been able to figure out the difference between a Staffordshire and a Pittie. Only that Staffordshires are a recognized breed and pit bulls are generic. When I was on Petfinder, I selected both.Sage advice.
This is my Staffordshire, Bizzie:
She's long since left us, but she was a great dog, and a rescue...
So I bought this guy some dog toys. The first toy I gave him was a stuffed dog bone, which is pictured below. I gave him other stuffed toys and rope toys and those toys which supposedly are tiger proof. He destroyed all of them in very short order. I am having to keep him in constant supply of toys. And I have stopped giving him stuffed toys since I am tired of picking up stuffing from all over the house.
But there is one toy he will not destroy. The very first one I gave to him. He carries it around in his jaws and takes very good care of it. He takes it to bed with him and always keeps it close by.
Tied to a tree for two years. MotherFUCKER!!!
As soon as our new pittie was dislodged from the truck from Texas, we took him directly to a large dog park.
When we set him loose, he did not know what to do and he just looked at me.
Tied to a tree for two years, you see.
He finally realized he could take off, and he did. Holy shit, he went wild. He ran and hugged every human in the park and greeted every dog.
After being tied to a tree for two years, he's a little clumsy but I take him to the park so his body can learn muscle and limb coordination.
Don't buy a dog. Rescue one.
I'm in Florida--2,000, 3,000, 4000 for little dogs including a mix is not uncommon. I see alot of Pits in the pound---and although I have only like the pits that I knew, the insurance companies here almost forbad them to be in homes.Don't buy a dog. Rescue one.
You can pay up to four figures for a dog these days, which is stupid when you can get one for next to nothing from an animal shelter. Thanks to the internet, it's even better now since you can adopt a dog from anywhere in the country which meets your exact specifications.
I've had dogs my entire life. I currently have two. A Yorkie mix I inherited when my mother died, and a black pit bull I adopted last October.
There were a hundred people coming and going at my parents' house when my mom died. The Yorkie picked me. She cuddled up next to me and would not leave my side. I didn't even know her since I live thousands of miles from my parents. I guess my mom directed her to me.
She was three at the time and my mother never house trained her! Why I don't know.
When I brought her home, my oldest daughter latched onto her immediately and now the Yorkie is her dog.
Do you know how hard it is to house train a three year old dog? Oh...my...god. Fuggedaboutit. It took forever.
I also had a German Sheperd/Black Lab dog who had been a police dog. I adopted him from a prison where the inmates trained them for civilian life. He was the most serious dog I have ever seen in my life. But with us, his inner puppy came out and he was a real joy. That dog stuck to me like Velcro for the rest of his life.
When my big dog passed, I thought I would not get another dog. I was too heartbroken. But the day came when I started looking.
I started in the local area. The Humane Society in my state does not execute dogs no matter how long it takes to get them adopted. I wanted a pit bull but none of them were young enough for me. I wanted one about 2 years old.
Just as a side note, when I lived in Virginia, they local pet lockup executed dogs after just 15 days. We adopted a Black Lab mix on his last day on Earth. He turned out to be a fricking Einstein of dogs. Incredibly brilliant. If he had started talking, it would not have set me aback one bit.
Anyway, after the Humane Society was a no-go, I tried another pet adoption agency and went to meet 2 pit bulls. The lady hosting them had 13 fricking dogs in her house. That's ridiculous. She was obviously milking for money. Anyway, the two pitties were way too wild.
Pit bulls have a bad reputation, but they are actually one of the best dogs you could ever ask for. You have to deliberately ruin them to make them vicious.
So I turned to the internet. A web site called Petfinder. And I laid out my wishes and a few days later I was sent a link to a page for this black pit bull and it even had some video of him.
I fell in love immediately.
This dog was way down in Texas at a pet shelter run by an evangelical lady. This dog had been tied to a tree for the first two years of his life, and when he was rescued he was covered in mange and fleas and had heartworms.
I think if you get a dog and then tie it to a tree for two years, you should go to prison for at LEAST two years.
I think it cost me something like $350 to have the dog trucked to where I live. They had him fixed, and cured his mange, and rid him of his fleas and heartworms. $350!!
You just can't beat that.
The church lady told a little fib, though. She said he was house trained.
Nope. And it should have occurred to me there is no way a dog tied to a tree his whole life would be house trained. Duh!
Do you know how hard it is to train a 2-year old dog who is not house trained? Oh...my...god. Fuggedaboutit.
But this dog is a genius. He may be even smarter than the Black Lab was. He learns very, very quickly. And once he learns something, he learns it well.
So I bought this guy some dog toys. The first toy I gave him was a stuffed dog bone, which is pictured below. I gave him other stuffed toys and rope toys and those toys which supposedly are tiger proof. He destroyed all of them in very short order. I am having to keep him in constant supply of toys. And I have stopped giving him stuffed toys since I am tired of picking up stuffing from all over the house.
But there is one toy he will not destroy. The very first one I gave to him. He carries it around in his jaws and takes very good care of it. He takes it to bed with him and always keeps it close by.
Tied to a tree for two years. MotherFUCKER!!!
As soon as our new pittie was dislodged from the truck from Texas, we took him directly to a large dog park.
When we set him loose, he did not know what to do and he just looked at me.
Tied to a tree for two years, you see.
He finally realized he could take off, and he did. Holy shit, he went wild. He ran and hugged every human in the park and greeted every dog.
After being tied to a tree for two years, he's a little clumsy but I take him to the park so his body can learn muscle and limb coordination.
Don't buy a dog. Rescue one.
Yeah, some landlords will not allow you to have a pit bull or a Rottweiler.I'm in Florida--2,000, 3,000, 4000 for little dogs including a mix is not uncommon. I see alot of Pits in the pound---and although I have only like the pits that I knew, the insurance companies here almost forbad them to be in homes.
Sage advice.
This is my Staffordshire, Bizzie:
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She's long since left us, but she was a great dog, and a rescue...
She was very very pretty....someone's big baby I see.Sage advice.
This is my Staffordshire, Bizzie:
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She's long since left us, but she was a great dog, and a rescue...
That kid would cut your throat and take your wallet and ATM card.Do you think adopting a neglected child would give you a 1000 times the joy?
Just asking
That kid would cut your throat and take your wallet and ATM card.
I was at the vet when a family came to pick up a dog rescued from the butcher shops of China. It was a beautiful Golden Retriever. The family brought a toy. The first toy this dog had ever seen. He took it slowly, hesitantly. Then his tail started to wag and he showed off his new toy to every one. His very own toy.
If you want to know what rescue is like, this is how rescue dogs feel.
They know. Dogs know more than we think they know.Yep. When we adopted the Black Lab the day before he was to be executed, I thought he was a really old dog at first. When we went to look at him, he moved very slowly as if every joint hurt. I think he sensed the end was near.
But the moment we took him into a visiting room, he jumped so high his nose nearly touched the ceiling. About 100 times.
When we agreed to adopt him, he yanked my wife all the way across the parking lot to get away from that horrible place.
I've had both rescues and purebreds bought from reputable breeders.Don't buy a dog. Rescue one.
You can pay up to four figures for a dog these days, which is stupid when you can get one for next to nothing from an animal shelter. Thanks to the internet, it's even better now since you can adopt a dog from anywhere in the country which meets your exact specifications.
I've had dogs my entire life. I currently have two. A Yorkie mix I inherited when my mother died, and a black pit bull I adopted last October.
There were a hundred people coming and going at my parents' house when my mom died. The Yorkie picked me. She cuddled up next to me and would not leave my side. I didn't even know her since I live thousands of miles from my parents. I guess my mom directed her to me.
She was three at the time and my mother never house trained her! Why I don't know.
When I brought her home, my oldest daughter latched onto her immediately and now the Yorkie is her dog.
Do you know how hard it is to house train a three year old dog? Oh...my...god. Fuggedaboutit. It took forever.
I also had a German Sheperd/Black Lab dog who had been a police dog. I adopted him from a prison where the inmates trained them for civilian life. He was the most serious dog I have ever seen in my life. But with us, his inner puppy came out and he was a real joy. That dog stuck to me like Velcro for the rest of his life.
When my big dog passed, I thought I would not get another dog. I was too heartbroken. But the day came when I started looking.
I started in the local area. The Humane Society in my state does not execute dogs no matter how long it takes to get them adopted. I wanted a pit bull but none of them were young enough for me. I wanted one about 2 years old.
Just as a side note, when I lived in Virginia, they local pet lockup executed dogs after just 15 days. We adopted a Black Lab mix on his last day on Earth. He turned out to be a fricking Einstein of dogs. Incredibly brilliant. If he had started talking, it would not have set me aback one bit.
Anyway, after the Humane Society was a no-go, I tried another pet adoption agency and went to meet 2 pit bulls. The lady hosting them had 13 fricking dogs in her house. That's ridiculous. She was obviously milking for money. Anyway, the two pitties were way too wild.
Pit bulls have a bad reputation, but they are actually one of the best dogs you could ever ask for. You have to deliberately ruin them to make them vicious.
So I turned to the internet. A web site called Petfinder. And I laid out my wishes and a few days later I was sent a link to a page for this black pit bull and it even had some video of him.
I fell in love immediately.
This dog was way down in Texas at a pet shelter run by an evangelical lady. This dog had been tied to a tree for the first two years of his life, and when he was rescued he was covered in mange and fleas and had heartworms.
I think if you get a dog and then tie it to a tree for two years, you should go to prison for at LEAST two years.
I think it cost me something like $350 to have the dog trucked to where I live. They had him fixed, and cured his mange, and rid him of his fleas and heartworms. $350!!
You just can't beat that.
The church lady told a little fib, though. She said he was house trained.
Nope. And it should have occurred to me there is no way a dog tied to a tree his whole life would be house trained. Duh!
Do you know how hard it is to train a 2-year old dog who is not house trained? Oh...my...god. Fuggedaboutit.
But this dog is a genius. He may be even smarter than the Black Lab was. He learns very, very quickly. And once he learns something, he learns it well.
So I bought this guy some dog toys. The first toy I gave him was a stuffed dog bone, which is pictured below. I gave him other stuffed toys and rope toys and those toys which supposedly are tiger proof. He destroyed all of them in very short order. I am having to keep him in constant supply of toys. And I have stopped giving him stuffed toys since I am tired of picking up stuffing from all over the house.
But there is one toy he will not destroy. The very first one I gave to him. He carries it around in his jaws and takes very good care of it. He takes it to bed with him and always keeps it close by.
Tied to a tree for two years. MotherFUCKER!!!
As soon as our new pittie was dislodged from the truck from Texas, we took him directly to a large dog park.
When we set him loose, he did not know what to do and he just looked at me.
Tied to a tree for two years, you see.
He finally realized he could take off, and he did. Holy shit, he went wild. He ran and hugged every human in the park and greeted every dog.
After being tied to a tree for two years, he's a little clumsy but I take him to the park so his body can learn muscle and limb coordination.
Don't buy a dog. Rescue one.
I had to fill out a questionnaire before I could adopt my dog. They want to know the living environment of the dog, how many hours a day he would be left alone, how many kids in the house and their ages, and so forth and so on.A lot of these recues are tougher to get a dog from than it is to adopt a kid.
Shit my wife used to own a vet clinic and the rescue we got one of our current dogs from was giving us a hard time
Black dogs like black children are considered hard to adopt----people just don't want to adopt them even though there are many great black dogs. They spend a far longer time in the shelters and it takes a lot longer if ever to adopt them out.I wonder how many abused children are in human shelters compared as a ratio to dog shelters
I wonder what the adoption rate of these children AFTER 2 yrs old, compared to dogs being adopted
Adorable..Sage advice.
This is my Staffordshire, Bizzie:
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She's long since left us, but she was a great dog, and a rescue...
Yep, one of my neighbors posted a $2000 reward for return of his bulldog. Sorry dude, any dog that gets loose around here is Coyote dinner within a day.Don't buy a dog. Rescue one.
You can pay up to four figures for a dog these days, which is stupid when you can get one for next to nothing from an animal shelter. Thanks to the internet, it's even better now since you can adopt a dog from anywhere in the country which meets your exact specifications.
I've had dogs my entire life. I currently have two. A Yorkie mix I inherited when my mother died, and a black pit bull I adopted last October.
There were a hundred people coming and going at my parents' house when my mom died. The Yorkie picked me. She cuddled up next to me and would not leave my side. I didn't even know her since I live thousands of miles from my parents. I guess my mom directed her to me.
She was three at the time and my mother never house trained her! Why I don't know.
When I brought her home, my oldest daughter latched onto her immediately and now the Yorkie is her dog.
Do you know how hard it is to house train a three year old dog? Oh...my...god. Fuggedaboutit. It took forever.
I also had a German Sheperd/Black Lab dog who had been a police dog. I adopted him from a prison where the inmates trained them for civilian life. He was the most serious dog I have ever seen in my life. But with us, his inner puppy came out and he was a real joy. That dog stuck to me like Velcro for the rest of his life.
When my big dog passed, I thought I would not get another dog. I was too heartbroken. But the day came when I started looking.
I started in the local area. The Humane Society in my state does not execute dogs no matter how long it takes to get them adopted. I wanted a pit bull but none of them were young enough for me. I wanted one about 2 years old.
Just as a side note, when I lived in Virginia, they local pet lockup executed dogs after just 15 days. We adopted a Black Lab mix on his last day on Earth. He turned out to be a fricking Einstein of dogs. Incredibly brilliant. If he had started talking, it would not have set me aback one bit.
Anyway, after the Humane Society was a no-go, I tried another pet adoption agency and went to meet 2 pit bulls. The lady hosting them had 13 fricking dogs in her house. That's ridiculous. She was obviously milking for money. Anyway, the two pitties were way too wild.
Pit bulls have a bad reputation, but they are actually one of the best dogs you could ever ask for. You have to deliberately ruin them to make them vicious.
So I turned to the internet. A web site called Petfinder. And I laid out my wishes and a few days later I was sent a link to a page for this black pit bull and it even had some video of him.
I fell in love immediately.
This dog was way down in Texas at a pet shelter run by an evangelical lady. This dog had been tied to a tree for the first two years of his life, and when he was rescued he was covered in mange and fleas and had heartworms.
I think if you get a dog and then tie it to a tree for two years, you should go to prison for at LEAST two years.
I think it cost me something like $350 to have the dog trucked to where I live. They had him fixed, and cured his mange, and rid him of his fleas and heartworms. $350!!
You just can't beat that.
The church lady told a little fib, though. She said he was house trained.
Nope. And it should have occurred to me there is no way a dog tied to a tree his whole life would be house trained. Duh!
Do you know how hard it is to train a 2-year old dog who is not house trained? Oh...my...god. Fuggedaboutit.
But this dog is a genius. He may be even smarter than the Black Lab was. He learns very, very quickly. And once he learns something, he learns it well.
So I bought this guy some dog toys. The first toy I gave him was a stuffed dog bone, which is pictured below. I gave him other stuffed toys and rope toys and those toys which supposedly are tiger proof. He destroyed all of them in very short order. I am having to keep him in constant supply of toys. And I have stopped giving him stuffed toys since I am tired of picking up stuffing from all over the house.
But there is one toy he will not destroy. The very first one I gave to him. He carries it around in his jaws and takes very good care of it. He takes it to bed with him and always keeps it close by.
Tied to a tree for two years. MotherFUCKER!!!
As soon as our new pittie was dislodged from the truck from Texas, we took him directly to a large dog park.
When we set him loose, he did not know what to do and he just looked at me.
Tied to a tree for two years, you see.
He finally realized he could take off, and he did. Holy shit, he went wild. He ran and hugged every human in the park and greeted every dog.
After being tied to a tree for two years, he's a little clumsy but I take him to the park so his body can learn muscle and limb coordination.
Don't buy a dog. Rescue one.
When I get a dog next time I will rescue one. Those are the most loving and appreciative dogs!
They have suffered so much and they deserve all the love one can give them.
