Your Dog(s)

**mountain mama** · 05-01-2009, 10:06 AM

chiye tanka, your dog looks just like the brindle pit I used to have, only her ears stood straight up like a bat.

**chiye tanka** · 05-01-2009, 10:11 AM

He's a big baby still. He's 8 months old today and around 65 lbs.
I've had pits since I was 18, and they've all been great. It's all in how you raise them.

**mountain mama** · 05-01-2009, 10:15 AM

It's how you raise them until you have kids...

**chiye tanka** · 05-01-2009, 12:00 PM

Nope, my girlfriend has two kids, 11 and 5. He's great with them.
My first one had 4 kids around him all the time and not one problem unless someone messed with one of the kids.

**mountain mama** · 05-01-2009, 12:05 PM

Well, your's is a male, mine was a female. Difference is yours doesn't have the maternal instinct and therefore isn't intent on disciplining the kids, canine style.

**Alpine_Sapper** · 05-01-2009, 12:10 PM

Originally Posted by chiye tanka

This is my boy Rhyno. (hope I did this right)

Very nice. I had a homeboy had a pair of blue pits, one male one female. Love the way those dogs are colored.

**chiye tanka** · 05-01-2009, 01:53 PM

I've had females in the past. The only problem I had was they didn't like it when my sister would scold the kids.

**talon** · 05-01-2009, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by mountain mama

Well, your's is a male, mine was a female. Difference is yours doesn't have the maternal instinct and therefore isn't intent on disciplining the kids, canine style.

I dont know, my female pit loves kids.. I don't have any kids of my own yet thank god.. but I have 2 young nieces and 2 young nephews that she's around quite often (when there moms aren't looking, they hate my dogs) and she treats them perfectly.. Of course Jager knows If she missed behaved around 'my' kids I wouldn't hesitate to bring down the hand of god on her ***.. haha.. it's the puppies I gotta worry about.

Right now I have 5 male Pit bull puppies 11 weeks old in my back yard.. They will take a 5 year old kid down jumpin and playin rough like they do.. Ooh 1 female pup too.. there's 6 total..

I've had this line for 4 generations now.. I started out with Jagers grandpa when I was 17. His name was Smash.. had his pick of the litter with a red nose named Sugar.. there came Crash.. Gave smash to my grandpa as i was living with him when I had Smash and my Gpa really liked him and i was moving.. And Jager was Crash's pick of the litter. Jager had pups a few months ago.. I kept Harley the best male of her litter and gave the 2nd pick male to my girlfriend.. I plan on keeping this bloodline alive as long as I am. Smash is still alive, Crash was poisoned by my neighbor a year ago when I lived in Woodward Ok..

Pits can make the most protective trustworthy companions of any dog out there in my opinion.. It's all in there raising. Jager is trained to attack on command, hunt, obedient.. great dog.. best of the line so far.

I have had two mishaps where she killed another dog before.. One was a huge female pit that got into our backyard.. It was my neighbor and good friends dog.. She probably had 20 pounds on Jager and she didn't get a scratch.. The other was a stray Collie while we were out camping on my uncles land in Kansas. I'll admit after she got that first taste of blood in her mouth she became more aggressive, but we've managed to work past that.. Having puppies and being spaded really mellowed her out alot..

I remember this one time my sister was bouncing my 1 year old nephew on her lap and kinda playin what could easily be percieved as "rough" to a dog.. Jager kinda posted up and started barking at her until I came into the room and let her know it was okay.. She wasn't lashing out towards anyone really she was just being protective over the child.. My sister didn't see it that way.. It scared her half to death..

**chiye tanka** · 05-01-2009, 01:54 PM

Thanks A.S.

**Alpine_Sapper** · 05-01-2009, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by talon

I have had two mishaps where she killed another dog before.. One was a huge female pit that got into our backyard.. It was my neighbor and good friends dog.. She probably had 20 pounds on Jager and she didn't get a scratch.. The other was a stray Collie while we were out camping on my uncles land in Kansas. I'll admit after she got that first taste of blood in her mouth she became more aggressive, but we've managed to work past that.. Having puppies and being spaded really mellowed her out alot..
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I got this call about 8 oclock last night from my wife. I could tell she was crying/upset by her voice. First words out of her mouth - "You wanna know how good of a dog you have?"

I'm like "Oh ****, what happened? " My immediate worry, knowing my dog, was that he was going to be put down for a nasty dog fight. As it turns out...

My kids were out in the yard playing on the swingset last night. The dog across the way, some pit bull mix named Harley, got out. Now, harley has bitten one of the neighborhood kids before, about a year ago. He's gotten out repeatedly (once or twice a week) since then, but other than "near red-zone" behavior, he hasn't actually bitten anyone. He just terrorizes the neighborhood kids when he does get out, and the owners don't care.

So the kids see Harley slinking across the yard stalking them. The three girls climbed as high on the swingset as they could, while Ian, 7, decided to brave it and run across the yard to get my wife, who was talking to the neighbor across the street. My wife freaks out when she hears Ian run up saying "Jenny, jenny, Harley's out and he's trying to bite us!!!"

My wife didn't have a firearm on her, and it would have taken to long to get one from the house, so she did the only thing she could think of...She sent Ian into the neighbors house, and went and got Kashi out of his pen and put him on a 6' lead. She brought him around the house to get between Harley and the swingset. Seeing a larger, more aggressive, more dominant dog, Harley moved back to his property. All of this is happening as Johnnie Law, one of the county sheriff's was passing by. Seeing this, he stops his car to find out what's going on.

So he get's on his air horn to get the neighbors attention, since the dog won't let anyone into the yard. He tried to bite the officer when he tried to go to the front door. So the officer sprays him down with pepper spray. No effect whatsoever. The officer and my wife confer, and to keep the officer from shooting Harley, they let my dog have full lead, and used him to corral the dog forcing him into his kennel. The officer then proceeded to ask if Kashi would bite him, and spent a few minutes petting him and telling him what a good boy he was, etc. The officer then proceeded to tell the neighbor that he should have shot Harley since they didn't come out to the air horn, and that if the dog got out again he would.

The neighbor then tried to talk to my wife, saying "Harley really is a good dog..." which flew with my wife about as far as a lead blimp. She straight told him "If your dog gets out again, I'm just going to let go of the leash."

His response?
"What's he going to do?" (Not smartassed, like he really didn't know.)

Guess he's never seen a dog fight before.
He will definitely find out if it happens again.

**chiye tanka** · 05-01-2009, 04:25 PM

You've got a good dog there A.S.
I have no use for a dog like that or an owner who doesn't do something about their dogs behavior problems.
I love my dog greatly, he's part of my family, but if he bit someone for no reason I'd put him down myself. People have a bad enough public impression of pit bulls and I won't have a dog that would purpetuate that stigma.
It's all about being a responsable owner.