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Neighborhood problem turns violent
tommy:
Can you please explain why my pit has not shown ANY aggression for almost 8 years now and has never bitten anyone or even slightly acted like he wanted to bite anyone?
I even recently got another pit going on two years and the same holds true.
Don't give me that garbage that it will still happen or some garbage like that. It's just not true. We are talking about a dog here, not some computer program that can crash at random with no reason and is not explainable.
What you hear abut these dogs is just not true. If I didn't tell you my dog was a pit you would not be able to tell the difference in the dog at all.
MikeQ:
I'm not saying your dog will for sure. However, it is the case in almost all attacks on family members that the dog had never been aggressive before.
Anyway, we've derailed this thread enough.
tommy:
--- Quote from: MikeQ on January 10, 2008, 12:34:05 am ---I'm not saying your dog will for sure. However, it is the case in almost all attacks on family members that the dog had never been aggressive before.
--- End quote ---
Never been aggressive before does not mean the dog was raised right and was taught to respect people and have limits and boundaries. This is what I'm trying to get people to understand. The owners of these dogs are not doing the right thing with them and are not making it clear to the dog that the person is the master and is in control and they need to obey, these people just let the dog grow up with no guidance and one day it challenges the person and tries to bite. It's not the dogs fault it was not put in it's place and told it should be second to a human.
You gotta take time with these dogs and MAKE them understand what you want, trust me, they will get the picture and know their place. These dogs are not toys we are talking about, take the time to make your stance known to them and they will respect it.
I've done it for Christs sake, I do not have the worlds most special pits that are the only ones on earth.
How can a good person NOT have an good effect on a dog, it is not possible. Take the time and make it happen.
MikeQ:
Look at your own argument though. You've had him for 8 years and not attack. There are many stories just like yours where people have raised a Pit Bull from a puppy and then it kills a child in the home. Again, the first sign of aggression ever was the killing of the child. The dog had lived in the home for many many years with no aggression until he killed the child. This Titusville attack, the child had lived with the dog for 4 years.
If the dog wasn't raised right, he wouldn't have waited 8 years to attack. He would have attacked much earlier.
I have a 13 year old dog and a 16 year old dog who recently died. Both have nipped me for no apparent reason. They are small dogs so a nip just draws some blood on a finger. These dogs have been with my wife and I since we were first married. They were are first children. They have been family members for longer than my children have been. They have always been well trained and treated, yet they nip. They nipped me doing things with them that I had done 1000's of times (playing, taking things away). Yet on 2 occasions for whatever reason they decided to bite. With a less aggressive breed this isn't a problem. With a pit bull it's like spinning the chamber on a gun and putting to your head. Like I said, (and look at the incident reports) they go for the throat and face, instinctively. Most predatory animals do.
The problem is that you don't even know what it is that is going to set them off. No amount of training or uber owner skills are going to help you. It might not even be something you did. It might be that there is a dog in heat 5 houses down the street and you aren't even aware.
tommy:
I don't know what to tell you, if your dogs are "nipping"you you need to curb that behaviour a long time ago and the way you sound as if you accept it and it is natural for the dogs to be doing this. This not a dog owner doing the right thing and is surly not supporting your stance.
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