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smooches!
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Friday, 14 September 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
reading the beginning of this thread makes me really glad i wasn't around alex in NYC in 2004
I'm glad you weren't around as well.
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 17 September 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
a+
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Monday, 17 September 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
FITE
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 September 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
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― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Saturday, 22 September 2012 05:47 (eleven years ago) link
THAT'S THE BONE OF AN INFANT
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Saturday, 22 September 2012 06:06 (eleven years ago) link
amazing tutu pits
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 22 September 2012 07:11 (eleven years ago) link
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http://www.dogparkpublishing.com/index.php?cPath=130
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Friday, 19 October 2012 02:32 (eleven years ago) link
For what its worth, my nephew and his wife recently adopted a pit puppy that had been abandoned during Hurricane Isaac, and last Tuesday it killed his 12 year old Lhasa Apso (incidentally named after Hurricane Gustav) while both dogs were in the back yard with "parents" away. A brave neighbor whose children watched this through the cyclone fencing tied the pit up, to keep him from thrashing about with the Apso's body. In the aftermath, my nephew's landlord revoked their lease variance to permit dogs, so they also had to give up a mutt Jenny that my 2 year old grandnephew Wyatt adored.
Hate to say it, but I'm relieved it was Gustav, and not Wyatt.
― ‽ Interrobang You're Dead ‽ (Sanpaku), Friday, 19 October 2012 02:43 (eleven years ago) link
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― The Stay-Puft Marshmellow Drunk! (kingfish), Friday, 30 November 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
Since my boss got a pit bull that she brings to work every day, I've noticed pits absolutely everywhere, and I am now head over heels crazy for them. They're sweet and they're really funny dogs.
My boss doesn't take her pit to the dog park b/c of other owners' reactions to her b/c of her breed, and b/c little tiffs between dogs are inevitable, but there's a good chance the pit bull will get blamed, and that could lead to bad things.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, what I meant to say was that when she boards her pit bull, the boarders put her in with the little dogs b/c she is mad for little dogs, and she gets very nurturing with them. I've seen her with little bichons and what not, and she does seem to be way into them. It makes me want to give her a big smooch. She's about 60 lbs, and it's adorable seeing her move her being gentle and affectionate with the little ones.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
aww
my neighbors have apparently been training theirs really well, if he's sitting outside on a leash and I come home he no longer runs to the fence and goes crazy, just kind of checks me out and looks chill
otoh my friend's dog is still a goofball and jumps all over
― mayor mcpotle (mh), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL7DsTngzUo
OH WHAT A VICIOUS BREED
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
Adorable.
Our office dog is afraid of salt shakers and other small bottles, and she reacts like that if you set down a treat and the salt shaker next to each other.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
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― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Saturday, 19 January 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
What's the appeal of pit bulls?
It has been my observation over a lot of decades that the breeds which are most often trained to be 'attack dogs', such as pit bulls, german shepards and dobermann pinschers have personalities that tend to form very deep and very loyal attachments.
They're extremely sensitive to their owners and they both mirror and magnify how their owners treat other people. How these dogs are socialized is ultra-critical to how they act as adults. They're just as likely to be emo as vicious, depending on how they were brought up. As a rule, though, they will react strongly to how they much of a threat to their owner they think you are.
This makes me very wary of them, but it makes me very aware of how their owners act, too. And if their owner isn't visibly around, this makes me super-wary of them.
― Aimless, Saturday, 19 January 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.heatworld.com/Celeb-News/2013/03/GALLERY-31-pictures-of-Tom-Hardy-playing-with-a-dog-Whats-not-to-like/
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― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know who that man is but I've seen those pics and that dog is cuuuuuute.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
Lisa WatkinsI wish I was that puppy@.Reply · Like · Follow Post · 20 March at 13:07
Lisa WatkinsI wish I was that puppy.Reply · Like · Follow Post · 20 March at 13:07
Lisa WatkinsI wish I was that puppy!Reply · Like · Follow Post · 20 March at 13:07
― This is called money bags. (zachlyon), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
Ew. Maybe if he shaved. Otherwise I am not willing to contemplate getting that close to that mouth beard.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 02:48 (eleven years ago) link
here, even the puppy is not a fan of the scraggle on his face:
http://media.avclub.com/images/426/426730/16x9/627.jpg?9874
http://www.avclub.com/articles/tom-hardy-forced-to-eat-puppies-to-maintain-physiq,94195/
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
Well thank god at least someone is thinking clearly.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
ok that is pretty cute
my friend who is a hairdresser adopted a 2-year-old pit bull a couple of month ago and has somehow managed to make her the softest dog ever, like silk this dog's fur
the other pit bull in my life is less soft but very cute and sweet and jumps really high when catching frisbeesi am still more of a cat person though, prob can't really change that...
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
that puppy rules <3
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
my arm, a content pit bull: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8371/8591682542_134f1d8304.jpg
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
*melts*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
my next door neighbors have an increasingly well-trained pit and he is such a good guy
saw a bunch of pits on the border of the seedy part of SF this weekend including the cuetest puppy
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 03:49 (eleven years ago) link
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― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/03/chihuahua-helps-thwart-pitbull-attack-on-bc-girl.html?cmp=rss
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 12:57 (eleven years ago) link
Chihuahuas - what's the appeal?!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:00 (eleven years ago) link
I don't understand the appeal either.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
people who dock/clip the ears on pit bulls are savages imo
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
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― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Thursday, 28 March 2013 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/28/17504438-georgia-toddler-mauled-to-death-by-familys-pack-of-dogs?lite
:((
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Thursday, 28 March 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
hooooly...
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 28 March 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
yikes.
but also: so there's FIVE people home and the 12 year old is assigned to watch the toddler?
...
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
and they have seven free-roaming dogs
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Thursday, 28 March 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
my parents old neighbors raised these russell terriers and those little assholes would occasionally come over and terrorize my parents' rottweiler! if she was on a leash in the back yard they'd gang up and nip at her from multiple sides.
gangs of dogs are dicks, mostly regardless of breed
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Thursday, 28 March 2013 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
i think it's more that you you have to be SUPER on your training game to manage a group of dogs, whether it's several breeds or multiple of the same breed. they can be good, and manageable, but only with heavy owner-involvement.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
my inlaws have always had multiple dogs -- from st bernards and a pitbull to german shepherd, mastiff and great pyrenees...never any problems but BiL and SiL were vigilant about making sure the dogs were social 'face dogs' (ie you could put your face right up in their face and they wouldn't blink an eye) and not aggressive from the time they were puppies.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i dogsat for my sister last week and walking her dog w/ my two i was like 'three dogs is too many for me' and we're talking a corgi, skye-yorkie mix, and a maltese here. a pit in town here got put down yesterday, two little boys wrestling in the yard, pit attacks the boy he doesn't know (pretty likely 'defending' his little boy in confused dumb dog mind), adults not supervising, kids needs stitches dog gets euthanized very very sad. pits are super sweet unless they've been trained by some scumbag but pretty much any dog has the capacity to lose control some when riled up and pits have been bred to have super effective jaws for that kind of thing, if you're not crazy responsible or you haven't owned dogs before maybe not the best breed (albeit the most common in shelters sadly), if you're the above and you have children maybe get a basset hound. i can remember a piece on profiling in the nyer a few years (gladwell alas) but in it it mentioned that the 'dangerous breed' w/ the most attacks has changed many times following fashion - pits, rottweilers, dobermans, german shepherds - but what i also remember was that chows were constantly second or third throughout the years for attacks, god help us if that ever becomes the fashionable breed for would-be badass schmucks.
― balls, Thursday, 28 March 2013 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
yeah my dogs are 'face dogs' apparently, i often wake up w/ one of their faces inches away staring at me creepy little weirdos.
― balls, Thursday, 28 March 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
adults need to be with kids around dogs, period. child-friendly dogs, or guard dogs, or whatever. kids grab and poke and pull and do all kinds of shit that dogs don't like, even placid dogs.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
pitbulls having a 'locking jaw' is a myth. they have a strong jaw, but the whole locking jaw thing has been exaggerated over time and has become accepted 'fact'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2013 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ when I was a kid, there was a party at a house up the road from us, and a guest had left their labrador in the car with the window down. A little kid playing hide and seek popped his head up in front of the window, startled the dog and the dog bit his face pretty badly. Xp
― just1n3, Thursday, 28 March 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i mean these things (ie dogs in general not just pits) have the cognition of a two year old and are carrying a pair of carpet scissors in their mouth which also happens to be their primary method of grasping things. potential for shit happening is there.
― balls, Thursday, 28 March 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
chows are crazy skittish, really friendly, though
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
yeah there's one around the corner from us that will just pop up on you w/o you knowing (he's fenced in but seriously one second empty yard next second that chow is right beside you and you wouldn't have heard a thing), when i got my first dog he'd pop up on us and i could tell it intimidated her (or, very possibly, she could tell it intimidated me). now my dogs are total bros w/ him, they'll try to drag me to it when we're near and i can see him get excited and do a little dance when we round the corner, i call him boo radley.
― balls, Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
Jesus wept people! don't start picking on labradors. I got a black labrador called Dogsby and he gets bullied by cats, is scared of pigeons and he doesn't even understand the concept of biting. I have had to rescue him from the kids at some of my son's birthday parties in the past. I have never seen a dangerous labrador in my life.http://s20.postimg.org/b13yumou1/SAM_0913.jpg
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― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:21 (eleven years ago) link