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
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/261218_476445865743887_30387624_n.jpg
― 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
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/559206_430011527093892_609883912_n.jpg
― 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
http://postimg.org/image/b13yumou1/#codes
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
no-one's picking on labs :) and that's a cute one!!
i think ppl are just trying to illustrate the point that there's no such thing as a 'safe' breed of dog.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
lol actually from the data i've read there is one breed of dog there are apparently no records of having seriously mauled or maybe it was killed anyone.
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/346/cache/basset-hound-howard_34698_990x742.jpg
fucking hippies
― balls, Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
lol!
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
Unless they're armed.
http://thesportshernia.typepad.com/blog/images/2007/06/01/droopydog2.jpg
― nickn, Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
Balls otm, chows will fuck you up
― Look, Brian, about the afro wig... (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 March 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/389025_593362934010111_1633195883_n.jpg
― Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 07:41 (eleven years ago) link
I see murder in its eyes.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 08:00 (eleven years ago) link
j/k i wub pitties
Also, my parents have a bassett and she is adorbs.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 08:01 (eleven years ago) link
what a cutie!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
this thread title has been making me mad for like a decade now.
elderly pit bull content:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d49u7gwavrsvpqo/ellie1.JPG
ellie dont give a fuck
― adam, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
old pit bulls are the best
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
Good grief, kingfish! what an adorable dog.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
stupid dropbox image. imagine an old pit bull draped over a chair just like what.
― adam, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/1014346_4971035589468_1689669209_n.jpg
― Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Friday, 21 June 2013 04:29 (ten years ago) link
The whole first round of this thread still makes me angry.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 21 June 2013 04:38 (ten years ago) link
squee @ those two
And yes, me too. Every time this thread gets bumped I hope it's not b/c someone's posted something defamatory about them.
― Je55e, Friday, 21 June 2013 12:46 (ten years ago) link
Pit Bulls.
They're not in a Pit, and they are not bulls.
― Mark G, Friday, 21 June 2013 12:47 (ten years ago) link
From a craigslist "free" ad, picture may not last too long.
http://images.craigslist.org/00n0n_5hxcpIXXNTk_600x450.jpg
― nickn, Monday, 12 August 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
omg send them to me asap all of them
dying
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link
http://www.pinterest.com/edgertor/pibbles/
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 06:52 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPyXnSzhclQ
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 05:27 (ten years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=284115365093532
Puppy loves you for your songs
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Saturday, 14 June 2014 05:52 (nine years ago) link