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Location: Louisiana | and 1 more of him and "Pinky" her eye balls were not developed so she was blind. She stuck to him like glue.
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Location: Eastern OH but my heart is in WV | I love that everyone is sharing their pitt's pictures. They are all beautiful dogs and shows the gentle sides of this breed  |
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Location: Oregon | Here's mine! She's a cuddle bug and loyal as the day is long. She does have tons of energy though and we make sure she gets enough play time.
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| LRQHS - 2014-10-13 9:53 AM
Here's my vicious pit :) Hide your children!!!
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Location: California | Hope the new gal is fitting in perfectly!
Happy Howl-oween time!
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| We ended up with our first pit bull last year when I found her running around loose and starving. We don't know anything about her but my husband fell in love and made her a shop greeter in our saddleshop. She is awesome! She loves everyone, gets along great with the other dogs, and is fantastic with the kids that come in to our saddleshop.
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Location: Southwest Minnesota | Here are some pics of my vicious Pit Bull...yesterday when the FedEx guy came Boomer nearly folded himself in two while wagging his tail he was so excited to see what I got, then wrinkled his big old sloppy lips into a Pitty smile, and then to top that off, tried to crawl in the FedEx truck to go road trippin' with the FedEx guy. Yup, he's pretty scary....
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Dancing in my Mind
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Location: Eastern OH but my heart is in WV | F Bar - 2014-10-14 6:37 PM
Hope the new gal is fitting in perfectly!
Happy Howl-oween time!
F Bar, I had to laugh seeing these pictures. Pretty, sure it is a good thing you can't read the mind of your brown one.
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Location: Eastern OH but my heart is in WV | Everyone on here has been so helpful. Yuki is a very sweet, loveable dog and a quick learner but are pit bulls/ mixes always this hyper? It is like she does not have a turn off switch. She wants to play 24/7 but the problem is she keeps hurting my little dogs just from her sheer size and strength. They will play for a little while, but you always hear one yelp then go and hide. And the cats are her personal chew toys (she does not hurt them but wants them to play too).
Depending on my husband's work schedule, some days she does not have to be crated at all but other days between work schedules she needs crated more and on those days watch out we are not sleeping that night because she is tearing the crate apart. Despite our work schedule she always has time out of the crate, but the hours change. We do not have a fenced in yard and are facing the possibility of moving very soon, so that is not an option at this time. However, at the new farm I already have an area picked out I want fenced. When the weather allows I put her in the pen outside while we are gone and it is nice size. She goes for walks and the kids love playing with her. It just seems like we can't wear her out no matter how long she is out playing.
She is 16 months, so just wondering if this is the nature of the breed or is there hope at the end of this "puppy" stage. LOL!!!!
My favorite is when she picks on the new kitten all day, then when we crate her for bed...he jumps on top and seeks his revenge.....but you can't close him out of the room because the older cat gets upset she can't go in and out and the dog scratches at the door....ooooh the life with animals. |
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| Mine gets crated every day for about 9.5 hours and you can definitely tell that he's excited to see us at 4:30 but it has gotten much better over the last year. I don't crate mine at night because we don't have any other animals in the house and he doesn't chew anything up while we are sleeping. To tell you the truth mine may be fine to leave run the house during the day now but that makes me nervous for our pillows  because he did chew them up last year when he was left alone for about 2 hours.
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Rolling J - 2014-10-20 9:10 AM
Everyone on here has been so helpful. Yuki is a very sweet, loveable dog and a quick learner but are pit bulls/ mixes always this hyper? It is like she does not have a turn off switch. She wants to play 24/7 but the problem is she keeps hurting my little dogs just from her sheer size and strength. They will play for a little while, but you always hear one yelp then go and hide. And the cats are her personal chew toys (she does not hurt them but wants them to play too).
Depending on my husband's work schedule, some days she does not have to be crated at all but other days between work schedules she needs crated more and on those days watch out we are not sleeping that night because she is tearing the crate apart. Despite our work schedule she always has time out of the crate, but the hours change. We do not have a fenced in yard and are facing the possibility of moving very soon, so that is not an option at this time. However, at the new farm I already have an area picked out I want fenced. When the weather allows I put her in the pen outside while we are gone and it is nice size. She goes for walks and the kids love playing with her. It just seems like we can't wear her out no matter how long she is out playing.
She is 16 months, so just wondering if this is the nature of the breed or is there hope at the end of this "puppy" stage. LOL!!!!
My favorite is when she picks on the new kitten all day, then when we crate her for bed...he jumps on top and seeks his revenge.....but you can't close him out of the room because the older cat gets upset she can't go in and out and the dog scratches at the door....ooooh the life with animals.
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| Yes, they're pretty high energy for sure. My old roommates have one and he's a ball of energy at 2 still. Completely gentle but loves to play and run. He has a rope toy strung up between two trees in the yard that he'll run back and forth for HOURS and still not be tired. They take him out with the quad to run in the desert and he can easily go 4-5 miles before he slows down. When I have him, he spends most of the day out running with the queenslands on fenced land and they chase rabbits, birds, etc. He'll general chill out at night if he's been out there all day but he has to be out ALL DAY to wear down. He's not bad at all, just likes to be on the move. |
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Location: Where the stars at night are big and bright, TX | Are you doing any obedience with her? Any on leash work with others helping you around the other animals? Teaching her to "leave it"? Rather than letting her roam, I'd do some work time on leash and give her some training in her responses where you can give her leash correction and get a response when you ask, rather than just a voice in the air from somewhere over there. How many hours is she crated? They are very sociable dogs and terriers, they need stimulation and limits...if she's not getting any guidance during her interactions and being rewarded for the correct responses, and being locked up all night and often during the day, you're going to have energy and behavioral problems. Will she have company in the yard when you move? She'll need some mental outlet and a friend or she'll probably find a way out of your yard to keep herself entertained and with company.
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Location: on my horse | Rolling J - 2014-10-20 8:10 AM
Everyone on here has been so helpful. Yuki is a very sweet, loveable dog and a quick learner but are pit bulls/ mixes always this hyper? It is like she does not have a turn off switch. She wants to play 24/7 but the problem is she keeps hurting my little dogs just from her sheer size and strength. They will play for a little while, but you always hear one yelp then go and hide. And the cats are her personal chew toys (she does not hurt them but wants them to play too).
Depending on my husband's work schedule, some days she does not have to be crated at all but other days between work schedules she needs crated more and on those days watch out we are not sleeping that night because she is tearing the crate apart. Despite our work schedule she always has time out of the crate, but the hours change. We do not have a fenced in yard and are facing the possibility of moving very soon, so that is not an option at this time. However, at the new farm I already have an area picked out I want fenced. When the weather allows I put her in the pen outside while we are gone and it is nice size. She goes for walks and the kids love playing with her. It just seems like we can't wear her out no matter how long she is out playing.
She is 16 months, so just wondering if this is the nature of the breed or is there hope at the end of this "puppy" stage. LOL!!!!
My favorite is when she picks on the new kitten all day, then when we crate her for bed...he jumps on top and seeks his revenge.....but you can't close him out of the room because the older cat gets upset she can't go in and out and the dog scratches at the door....ooooh the life with animals.
My girl was a complete and total nut, also couldn't wear her out. Eventually she would just drop wherever and sleep for a while and was right back at it.
What helped the most for her was structured leash time, making her walk perfectly and doing some obedience work with her.
What also helped a ton was taking her riding with me and letting her "lope" circles with me around the race track. After two horses and probably ten miles she would be an awesome house dog for the evening! Repeat on a nearly daily basis lol
Another important thing for her was just letting her be a dog. I was living with a girl who had a really grumpy catahoula that put some manners on her fairly quickly as far as how rough she was allowed to get and I reinforced that but still let her spend plenty of time doing whatever dogs do.
I also got her one of the industrial strength kong toys and would put a little bit of spray cheese (NOT paying for that high dollar kong toy filler) and that would keep her entertained for a few hours and helped her settle into being calm while inside or when everybody else was tired, etc.
Once my pitty got a little older and settled into her routine she calmed way down.
Tried to attach three pictures of my girl Della but only two show up unless you click at the bottom. Lame!! I named her after our BB Della's dog Della and she was the best dog and a class A snuggler! I wish she would have been around longer. 
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| Yeah, they all are the sweetest, until they aren't then you all can run around in utter surprise and ask "Who knew?"
I did and does anyone with half a brain.
Puts me in mind of the idiots who post pictures of their toddler curled up for a nap with a boa constrictor.
They (animals) are what they are. No amount of anthropomorphizing, ignorance or training will ever change that. They are creatures of nature and the capacity to do great harm remains undiminished.
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Location: Home....Smiling M Farms | F Bar - 2014-10-14 6:37 PM
Hope the new gal is fitting in perfectly!
Happy Howl-oween time!
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Location: Home....Smiling M Farms | WYOTurn-n-Burn - 2014-10-09 10:01 AM
From an insurance standpoint, you'd better make your agent aware that you are getting a pit bull and then be prepared to possibly be nonrenewed from your insurance or have your rates go up. Pits are frowned upon because of their aggressive personalities. Not sure that it matters to you, but just wanted to offer the advice.
FYI ^^^^ this is true.
No, they are not going to come right out and ask you what kind of dogs you have BUT if there is an accident involving the dog (ex. dog bites mail man and mail man sues), your home owners insurnace is going to ask you what kind of dog was involved in the incident. Depending on your state and/or insurance company, they can drop you if the offending dog was a pit bull. However, it ranges from company to company, some even incude german shepards, dobermans, and rotts. Stud horses actually fit into this category as well.
To the individual who said farm bureau fixed his dog, that was a different scenerio. The dog was injured in an accident and it was up to insurance company to pay for injuries. Not the same.
I have no problems with the breed, my dog Indy is 1/2 pitt and I love her to pieces, but I know this is true at least with farm bureau (who I use).
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