Pitbulls Used to Be Considered the Perfect "Nanny Dogs" for Children --

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86. Ok, what do you think most pitt and rottie mixes are? They get tagged with a "brand".

Mine literally has the body of a boxer, brown and white with the shape of a boxer. His head, totally Rotweiller. He's not small, barks big, and loves like crazy. Mutt or not, he's got pure bread parents, his Dad was very ill tempered when we went to retrieve Hurricane as a puppy. I almost didn't allow the puppy because of the father, but the Momma was a sweet little overbread boxer, looking forward to her life of retirement without a pup on the teat; so I acquiesed. Thankfully, we got him at 5 wks, and we crate raised him in an Apartment on the Second floor. He had to learn to be around people, had to learn to be around a small baby (boy that was a bit rough with him so damned jealous of something else taking Momma's attention away and another female actual Mutt who thought the child was hers and should be treated like a small pup--including trying to do the whole pick up and carry deal-- that's probably more consistent with most "dog attacks" on very small children in one's home, jealousy or thinking the "new" baby is there's to raise like their own), then had to adjust to a new apt with new people, and then a home with an yard (which they loved), and then his sister's passing, and now his old age years. Boy oh boy has he figured out how to get my attention when he wants something. He taps his nails onto the wood floor insistantly until he's "served", he won't do it for his Dad, just me and my son. Drives us nutsy. He does it on purpose. He also knows how to sneak onto furniture, get water from the fridge "tap", and has figured out how to open my bread box and get down a fresh loaf to eat.

He may be "mutt" because he was a fluke between two pure breads, but he's probably more "pure" than most "pitts" in a pound. The one thing I don't like about the "pitt" phenomenom is that many of the "fighting dogs" are bread from other fighters. So, the owners are looking for mean dog traits. I will admit, those that are bread, trained, and treated as a fighting dog, isn't good for general public. I would support for them to live out their lives at a rehabilitation center with trained dog handlers, rather than being killed outright, but its not as if the money confiscated from the busted up dog rings ends up helping the dogs, it goes to the state/ policing agents; I wish the money would go towards taking care of the dogs.

The real deal is to make fighting dogs or roosters a taboo item that is very frowned upon.