Pit Bulls: What's the appeal?

Can't help, but cute dog! Why don't they want to take her to a shelter?

NOSE SO PINKS

OMG. I could never take another pit, but so sweet. Laurel, are you NYC? If so, forward me more info and I'll circulate.

My baby had the flu for three weeks and then tore her acl. she's been cooped up in the house for five weeks and I came home last night to a stir-crazed pile of shredded magazines and video game boxes. We gotta get her back to regular playtime.

Nick: Most US shelters are packed full with pits already and even at a no-kill shelter, they're unlikely to be placed.

Yah, I'm NYC! That's all the info I have, that paragraph and that photo.

Such a cutie.

Can't help, but cute dog! Why don't they want to take her to a shelter?

when I lived in tennessee, the bastards who ran dogfighting rings would troll shelters for pit bulls, and since the shelters knew this, they would automatically put down pit bulls.

Fuck that's sad.

Sheesh, that is not good. Still, might be worth talking to local shelters to get their take on it anyhow.

that's how we ended up with our pit bull - a friend of ours worked at the pound and snuck her out cuz she was such a lovable, couldn't stand to put her down

xp

Forwarding and facebooking now. Let you know if I get a pos response anywhere.
She looks beautiful. Muskly!

I suspect her body fat is down from going hungry?? Poor girl. Thanks for passing it around.

Pits tend to get husky like that when they're low slung, which she seems to be, but yeah: she needs two squares for a few months.

She looks in pretty good shape in that pic. Pits are always pretty buff looking unless their owner overfeeds 'em and then they can get a bit rolly-polly.

yeah, those muscles look like they'd wrench your shoulder pretty good if she saw a squirrel while you had her on leash.

Hah well virtually any dog can do that. Dogs do like their squirrels.

http://ihasahotdog.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/funny-dog-pictures-dog-eats-your-homework.jpg

guys my banjo tore her right rear acl and after a month of going crazy in the house, may need two months recovery/3000 bucks of surgery and I'm v v v unhappy

Laurel, how'd your friends pit end up?

Jeez. Didn't she already have a hip/leg problem before?

Yeah, it got worse.

three grand is kinda like, shit I love my dog, but an axe is twenty bucks and it's reusable

:( I think my wife and I are going to start stuffing more money in our just in case dog fund.

we had 1200 over the past two years. Now we're back at negative, presumably. Seeing a specialist at the start of next week.

I don't know what happened to the rescue pit, but that sucks about your baby. Can't you just get a little fishing line and sew that up under the power of, like...chloroform? Please do not go all Misery on us w/r/t that axe.

Also I'm looking for an apt and my roommie has a little dog, and people keep asking us "What kind of dog is it? Because you know, they don't want any pit bulls or nothing in the building."

:( :(

I'm finding out that acl injuries are real common with pitbulls; lotta weight at a high velocity on little spindly legs.
Reading forums like this are scary: http://www.pitbullforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=114658&highlight=ligament

Torn acl's are fairly common for pits are they not?

xp!

This page is making me melt.

http://www.badrap.org/rescue/adoptions.cfm

That is the best page ever. I'm sure I've linked to it a dozen times on ile.

My dog has no nose!

So Banjo ultimately didn't need surgery; vet told us to wait and see and it will almost certainly get worse, but she should be able to get around. Unfortunately, four months in the house have turned her into a defensive full on crazed dog and she attacked a potential dog walker when he visited the house. We're looking at getting her back into training.

http://i634.photobucket.com/albums/uu66/devilsangel_6sic6/1242873916.jpg

http://image.blingee.com/images16/content/output/000/000/000/59c/456301238_921163.gif%3F4

whoops, I mean: http://6.media.tumblr.com/enOlT3UiNpdppp92SYwtww7oo1_400.gif

your dog is snorting bling

Clean them sinuses

Is she getting better adjusted? Your last posts about her sounded kinda troubling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uOiiA4Kxbo

Dog doesn't look particularly happy and that jerk shouldn't be biking on the sidewalk, but that's still very cute.

She's getting better. I'm convinced that the snarly bullshit is solely about acting out. She's just really territorial. We discipline her every time with a loud NO and making her sit every time she lunges or barks at people/bikes and we give her pets and treats and good banjos everytime she lets them pass. She's just a bit dim.

it's like having a retarded child.

Was she being offered a treat in that photo? Bcz that is totally the face pits make when they are being teased with snacks.

Our upstairs neighbors have two pitbull puppies and it is SO ADORABLE esp.since one of them is nervous about stairs.

lol, she's CONSTANTLY making that face and is constantly being told to wait with treat training.
We are snack machines.

Searched the web for "rottweiler attack".
Results 1 - 10 of about 319

Searched the web for "Doberman attack".
Results 1 - 10 of about 492

Searched the web for "german shepherd attack".
Results 1 - 10 of about 141

Searched the web for "pitbull attack".
Results 1 - 10 of about 478

Searched the web for "poodle attack".
Results 1 - 10 of about 31

Your search - "chow-chow attack" - did not match any documents.

okay. there's 3 breeds right there you should require a licence to own then.
(also the media slant agains pitbulls doesn't seem so apparent to me here).

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Results 1 - 10 of about 1,850 for "pug attack". (0.74 seconds)

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Search the web for "pit bull" attack
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I bet someone mentioned this, but some of them are very sweet dogs and friendly with strangers.

But I have also been chased by one of the bastards on my bike.

Actually there is a fair amount of pro-pit sentiment on the thread. Many of my favorite dogs have beens pits or pit-mixes. But there is no denying that they are statistically the most likely breed to lethally bite people and that there is fair amount of anti-pit hysteria in the media because of that fact.

whatever dog is most popular among fantastic assholes in any given era is "the most likely breed to lethally bite people". I've seen it shift from Dobermans to German Shepherds to Rotties to Pits in my lifetime. Inevitably, there's a vast hue and cry that boils off as soon as the dog of the moment goes out of style. Nobody is crying about deadly Dobermans anymore; that was a monster of the '80's. The real problem is idiots treating animals like weapons and then acting, unsurprisingly, like idiots.

For all her attitude issues, my pit is considerably better behaved than many similar sized and larger dogs that live in my immediate neighborhood.