Pit Boss

[anna_66]

Has anyone watched this show on Animal Planet yet? http://animal.discovery.com/tv/pit-boss/

I watched it for the first time last night and really liked Shorty and his rescue. His pitties are so freakin' cute!

[MonicanHonda]

Lol yeah... It's a good show. :)

[chocolatepuppy]

I've watched bits and pieces. Looks like it's gonna be a good show.;)

[lvpets2002]

:) Yes I watched this weekend & I liked it.. I like Shorty & the whole crew & the doggs are so Cute..

[Casper]

I enjoyed the show. :) Shorty has more guts than a lot of people I know!

[Karen]

I liked the show - Shorty may not have the best people skills ever, but he sure does love those pitties! I loved him trying to get out of bed in the morning, flanked by sleepy pitties, and one of them just wanted to fall back asleep!

[redog]

they're not doing the breed any justice. making the dogs look like they are only for criminals and scumbags. the little guy has no control of the dogs and needs to trim their nails. animal planet is doing nothing but confirming the medias perception of a dying breed. those are not even american pitbull terriers. they are bullies and cross breeds.

[redog]

Come on Animal planet can we get a pitty show that doesnt have anything to do with jail/prison/parolees/Michael Vick??

[Karen]

they're not doing the breed any justice. making the dogs look like they are only for criminals and scumbags. the little guy has no control of the dogs and needs to trim their nails. animal planet is doing nothing but confirming the medias perception of a dying breed. those are not even american pitbull terriers. they are bullies and cross breeds.

I don't know about the breeds of the dogs, but he is not a criminal or a scumbag. He is a working actor and runs a talent agency. The neighborhoods may not be the best, but that is where he grew up, and I hardly think he can be faulted for that. And he is opposed to breeding and trying to get people to not breed. His dogs do not seem out of control, and he really does seem to love them. Yeah, maybe they need their nails trimmed, but what dog doesn't, from time to time? The dogs seem happy, clean, well-fed and well loved.

[redog]

he damaged property and stole a dog ..............theres a process that a rescue goes thru to recover an animal

[IRescue452]

He refuses to get his own dog neutered. I've heard many many people locally lately use his same excuse "oh I wouldn't do that to my dog, but I'm not breeding them". What about the good points of spaying and neutering. A dog can't get testicular cancer or a very common and deadly uterine infection if the parts aren't there. This idiot is just going to further the current trend of not spaying or neutering.

[Karen]

He refuses to get his own dog neutered. I've heard many many people locally lately use his same excuse "oh I wouldn't do that to my dog, but I'm not breeding them". What about the good points of spaying and neutering. A dog can't get testicular cancer or a very common and deadly uterine infection if the parts aren't there. This idiot is just going to further the current trend of not spaying or neutering.

He explained in one episode that his dog had a very bad reaction to the anesthetic the only time he had minor surgery, so he was advised that putting the dog under for getting neutered might kill him.

[Indigo Bully Connection]

There is now a "procedure" where they have an injection that goes into his "stuff" which will kill of the testicles. My grandmother had it done to her GSD, Grizzly.

IMO, Animal Planet is doing a detrimental thing for our dogs. I know they're trying to stay positive and what not with all of these new snazzy shows on the "pit bull". Not just this joke of a show with little people and "pit bulls" (I have yet to see a real APBT on the show)... but this joke of a show Pit Bull and Parolees... for the people who do not run right out and get a dog that they are not ready for, it just makes us as bulldog owners the laughing stock of country... Pit bulls are lumped together with deformities, and convicted convicts.

PS-sorry i've been out for a while guys. I had to tighten my belt financially because of Indigos vet trip.

[IRescue452]

Oh. Well I hope he keeps the alternative options as an open conversation with the vet. They keep coming up with new drugs for steralizing without surgury. I wonder if the dog would have a bad reaction to gas and local as opposed to injection.

Indigo: At least the other show is a real rescue that screens potential adoptions and takes their dogs to the vet as soon as they get them. This Shorty guy has a long way to go. He's also just out of jail, what's the difference between him and the parolees?

[Indigo Bully Connection]

Here's a link to the nuetering process that i described.

http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=0+1997&aid=2912

[Indigo Bully Connection]

Oh. Well I hope he keeps the alternative options as an open conversation with the vet. They keep coming up with new drugs for steralizing without surgury. I wonder if the dog would have a bad reaction to gas and local as opposed to injection.

Indigo: At least the other show is a real rescue that screens potential adoptions and takes their dogs to the vet as soon as they get them. This Shorty guy has a long way to go. He's also just out of jail, what's the difference between him and the parolees?

Not much of anything really. You're right at least Pit Bulls and Parolees screen their new homes... a big beef of mine is that they ( Tia and her daughters) walk around half naked with these ex convicts. Also, each kennel is a great hiding place for an Addict who is supposedly on kennel clean up duty.

I just wish that they would have a show, it doesn't necessarily need to be breed specific, but one that is based off of people who actually work with dogs. Not another rescue show, but one that shows dogs who have been bred and raised right, What is involved for handlers that put their dogs through obedience, compete in sports, or show confirmation. These dogs are just not for rejects of todays society, ya know what I mean? A show like that will spike peoples interest not only in animals period, but to go out and try to have fun with their beloved pets. There are many limited privledge opportunities through registries to "compete" with your altered dogs as well.

[apbtmom76]

HERE HERE Shana, I completely agree, both of these shows are doingnothing right for our breed, even thought hey take care of them, seriously Pit Boss is totally scripted and I am not doubting the fact that he has love for his dogs or the breed but this show is a complete JOKE. Pit Bulls and Parolees is supposed to PBRC and if so wow, is all I hav to say

[anna_66]

OK, I just don't get it:rolleyes:

I didn't think this show was trying to do anything against the breed/jail/prison/parolees/Michael Vick/unaltered dogs or whatever. I personally didn't think the show was negative about anything. It's like every other reality show, maybe it is scripted...most of them are. So what.

I just brought it up because I thought his dogs were cute, he seems to really care about dogs and I liked the fact that he took them to the nursing home to show people that big dogs are not scary.

Why must you always make it into something negative when it comes to anything to do with any kind of pitbulls/bullies/crossbreeds?

[redog]

OK, I just don't get it:rolleyes:



Why must you always make it into something negative when it comes to anything to do with any kind of pitbulls/bullies/crossbreeds?

cuz so many people buy into the myth put out by the media?

[Indigo Bully Connection]

OK, I just don't get it:rolleyes:

I didn't think this show was trying to do anything against the breed/jail/prison/parolees/Michael Vick/unaltered dogs or whatever. I personally didn't think the show was negative about anything. It's like every other reality show, maybe it is scripted...most of them are. So what.

I just brought it up because I thought his dogs were cute, he seems to really care about dogs and I liked the fact that he took them to the nursing home to show people that big dogs are not scary.

Why must you always make it into something negative when it comes to anything to do with any kind of pitbulls/bullies/crossbreeds?

I didn't mean to sound confrontational. I was just putting my two cents in. I haven't been argumentative anywhere else within your forum. I will back away from this thread then.

[MonicanHonda]

Psht, I just wish they had more agility shows on Animal Planet. My favorite. :)

[anna_66]

cuz so many people buy into the myth put out by the media?
I understand that. I just didn't really see that they were looking at them in a bad light.


I didn't mean to sound confrontational. I was just putting my two cents in. I haven't been argumentative anywhere else within your forum. I will back away from this thread then.
No, you don't need to do that. I just honestly don't understand what they were doing that made things look so bad.
I love rotties and they have a bad rep too, but if it were them in the show I wouldn't have thought they were doing anything to make them look bad. In fact I thought they were trying to show a good side.

[IRescue452]

My two cents is that the guy is not a rescue, he's a vigilante. Think Robin Hood. I don't get the impression that he knows anything about liability. Regardless of breed (they could be labs or corgis for all I care) he's taking dogs under his wing that may have been treated badly or purposely made aggressive. I'd like to see a more formal situation rather than a joke of a show with a former criminal running a talent agency and stealing dogs from bad people on the side.

Its the same way I feel about the show with the biker vigilantes saving dogs.