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I like posts like this. I know what you mean my making you laugh. My first pit was Kira she is about 1 1/2yrs now. She has her own personality which has become some what more serious now. She cracks me up when I talk to her and she looks at you like she is going to answer you. She will give me the huff or whimper and I just laugh at her. Ace is my baby boy. He is a rescue who was raised the first year of his life in the humane society. He clung to me like glue when I got him home. He is the funniest dog ever and he literally smiles all the time. When I get home from work its play time for the night. We have “mommy time” where we go into my bedroom and play and wrestle around usually I loose with the kisses and end up soaked in slobers lol. They love it. It is their special time with me one on one. I try to do it as much as I can. I have them trained with water bottles. If they start to act up all I have to do is grab that bottle and bam the sit right down and look around like what I wasn’t doing anything. So when we are outside and they get way to rough the garden hose is used and it doesn’t ever even have to be turned on and they calm right down. That didn’t work to well for my mom and her pit cause she loves water. You can spray her in theface and she’s like yeah give me more come on. She’s like a lab with water absolutly halarious!
Keep telling yourself your a perfect dog owner. Its people that say things like that that make other afraid of the breed. So you refer to Ceaser which he never talks down about pits and there you go talking down about pits because the dog owners were irresponsable in that episode. No one is perfect! But Jumping to a rude defense of the breed is not that answer. I know smaller dogs that do more damage than my dogs could ever do. RELAX!
Well Chris since it seems that everyone on HERE wants to bash you for taking your dog to a dog park which you asked not to do I will say that I myself take my two pits to the dog park and I live in OHIO!! Yeah Ohio! I know my dogs in and out and if other dogs are in the park they have to be mussled BY LAW!! Most of the time we go there we are the only one’s there. They have a blast running and just playing together. This dog park is at the dog wardens in our county. The manager there met my two pits and they loved him. He told me as long as no one else was in there that hey could be unmussled but if I seen someone coming with their dog to be safe they needed to be musseld. I know the things that can happen and all the hoopla about how vicious and mean and lalalala it goes. But these dogs need exercise and if no one else is there then who give a damn. If you treat your dog like others who are idots see them then what good are you doing other than proving them right. You hide your dog from the real world because idoits have made them so MEAN! Yes they can turn on other dogs and I’m not saying it won’t happen. It is smart to want to avoid those situations but how good is it to harbor them from a life like normal dogs? If you have your pit a park then you need to keep constant vigulance over them. You are ther for them not for you to socailize. Just like kids. You don’t or at least shouldn’t just let your kids loose in a park and go talk with other moms and ignore you child like he or she isn’t there. Same rule applies! If you don’t like what I said then sorry I’m a responsible own and they are my children. Don’t do anything that might get them harmed in any way!!!
I would have to agree with bullypaws post. I do feed my one pit Iams proactive Lamb and Rice. It seems to do well for him. He has allergies and my other pit was eating that as well and she has a poor immune system anyways and it finally had enough and she was having severe allergic reations and swelling of her face. The vet recommened precription or I could try food that have absoulutely no chicken, beef, lamb, rice, or grains of that nature. So she is on Natural Balance venison and sweet potatos and she LOVES it. I don’t care much for the price tag of $50 for 28lbs but she is doing great on it and no more reactions. I don’t think I could afford to feed them both that food right now but my male has a serious gas and intestinal issue before I put him on Iams Lamb and Rice so I’m going to leave that alone. I don’t need anymore drama. I looked at Taste of the Wild though and their Venison still has chicken meal in it. Cheaters!
She will be fine if you bath her in the bath tub you can use puppy shampoo but I would just use regular dog shampoo. I highly recommend using and otmeal shampoo because pits skin can be sensitive and dry out easily. Also don’t bath her excessively it will cause her to have dry skin.
Amber
Rebecca,
I have put Kira through CGC and loose leash is important but a really big thing is meet and greets. I was lucky Kira was natural AT FIRST. She started to get stubborn so I had to use a very stern voice when giving her commands. My reccomendations are to use a choke chain(not prong color or halter those are not aloud for testing) and walk him the minute he begins to lead give a quick tug on the leash and say Heel. Keep repeating that so he knows that when he walks in front of you he is not behaving well. As he keeps walking beside you sound excited and say good boy heel good boy. Then slowly loosen the leash. Make sure you yourself are relaxed. You are also wanna walk in variable speeds. That is on the test too. Walk slow then medium then really fast.I did have good experiences with the Kong for Kira but Ace is a terror when it comes to destorying it. Thank god he’s not an intense chewer like Kira. In the evenings after they eat dinner Kira will go potty and then immediatly come in and grab her mint flavored Nylabone and chew it hard core all night. She has got them sharp like crazy but that don’t stop her. She doesn’t get agressive about it but some times if Ace tries to grab it she lets him no thats a no no he has his own. So the other day he grabbed it from her on the couch and ran to the bed room dropped it then came back out in the living room like ha now go get it. Cracked me up
Oh my god that is so pathetic. I can beleive some idoit would do that though. People are so stupid sometimes. I have some neighbors where I live that are so stupid and are scared to death of my two pits. I just laugh at them cause they are dumb about the breed. But you can’t teach old people anything. Also my cousin’s husband is a state tropper in ohio and he is scared of my two pits and forbids my cousin and my goddaughter who is 3yrs. to come to my house. My dogs love her and they would never hurt her but he is so afraid that they will turn on her which I know my dogs and they wouldn’t do that. He has 2 dogs that are Rott mixes and they have actually snaped and turned on her before but that was ok cause they weren’t pits. WHATEVER!!! All he does is harrass me about my dogs all the time. So even law enforcement officers are stupid! But a German Shepard that could also mangle you and hurt you is ok? Yeah common people!
I would totally agree with Taana’s post. They will be ok crated. I feel gulity too when I crate mine all day. But they are doing ok. I exercise them everyday when I get home and they are happy. It will be fine.
1)I would say yes to seperation anxiety but also you have been with her almost 24/7. Don’t give in to the barking and whining when you leave her. She will then do it just for attention and you don’t want that. She will learn with time she is still very young.
2)She is still small so playing with other dogs may be intmidating for her. It is good that she rolls on her back when they come up to her that means she is open and submitting to that dog saying your the boss to them. You want that rather than aggressive I don’t respect anybody attitude. My pit Kira was the same way…believe me they grow out of that now she’s the boss! Something I highly recommend is puppy classes. It socializes them very well. I would check with local training groups in your area and see what they have and when you can start her. It teaches them manners and handling by strangers (ie. Vets). Easier to start now than later. You can even do it at home. Play with her mouth look at her teeth open her mouth and make her do it and make sure she is calm when you do it. Also try grabbing her rough like a kid would do. Like grab her tail and things then it teachers her that it is ok when that happens and not to bite.
3.) I wouldn’t play tease or tug games with her alot it could make her more aggressive and I don’t allow mine to growl really aggressive when I play with them or when they play with each other. A little is ok but some times if one gets to mad it excalates and someone ends up yelping. So I monitor them when they play and stop it before it starts.
As for the potty training they are very good with that and learn very quickly. Walking off lead is good but as she gets older she will want to explore more and that can lead to her running off. Plus the waiting for you is good she is learning quickly you are the pack leader and she looks to you for the way she should act.
Amber
I had the same problem somewhat. I use to work part-time so I was home by 1pm everyday and had the weekends off. In June I started working full-time and I’m getting divorced. So I have no other choice but to leave them home. I do live close to work so I take my lunch hour to go home eat and let them out for about an hour. I keep being told they are just dogs they will be fine. But to me they are my children and I really feel guilty if I have to go to the store or something when I get home from work and have to crate them again. Finally now that it is August they are starting to get use to it.
As for leaving them outside it depends on where you live to be honest. I live in Lima, Ohio. I have to have insurance on my home for them, and if they are outside in a fenced in area it must be 6ft tall and a lock on the gate! I have a 4ft fence and no lock but Kira actually did jump the fence oneday when my ex husband went back inside. She hasn’t sense. Kira digs really bad you should see my yard its horrible. My only concern for you would be people walking by kids tormenting them or even adults. I personally wouldn’t do it even if I had a 6ft. fence. They will get use to being crated. I went and trusted mine for a couple of days loose in the house and the first day was great I was so impressed I praised them like crazy when I got home. Then the next time they stayed loose it was horrible. So they get crated anytime I leave. I try to exercise them every evening and they seem to be happy.
Amber
Rebecca,
I got my first pit puppy last June. I did all the obedience and got her Canine Good Citizen Ceritified. She is so destructive when she gets mad it drives me crazy. If I go outside to water my flowers and she can’t see me she will grab the newspaper or anything like that she can tear up and shred it. If i put her in her crate she will do it to bedding in there. But I love her to peices. So I decided to get another pit from the Humane Society that was already house broken (yeh). He is the best dog. He loves any bedding you put in there for him and never torn anything up unitl I started working full time and they are are in their crates from 8am to 11:30am then 12:30pm to 5pm. Now he has developed seperation anxiety bad and will sometimes tear stuff up in his crate. Now also if they are in the house and I’m outside and Kira tears something up he will assist in destroying it too. He has learned that from her. But I would highly recommend crating them both while you are not home no matter how trained they their because they are born fighters and my love each other but when one has had enough they will turn. I have never had a fight that I couldn’t stop with just my tone of voice but teeth have been beared and it got somewhat vocal so just as a precaustion.Amber
Madeline,
I usually just use a choke chain and it doesn’t seem to bother them. I use an otmeal shampoo on my two pits to moisturize their skin and i don’t bath them frequently. Also my vet told me to use Revolution if they have super sensitve skin like mine. Revolution is better for dogs and cats with skin allergies. It may seem like it cost more and you can only get it from a vet cause it is also a heartworm prevetative too. I prim exam is to day it cost me $8 for Heartguard and $16 for Frontline. One dose of Revolution for one of my dogs is no more than $20. I will tell you though Frontline covers more types of ticks than Revolution does. My mom uses it cause they take the dogs camping. So if your area is prone to ticks I would stay with frontline but just and FYI about Revolution.Amber
