When you get your animals from the SPCA, you kind of have to deal with the luck of the draw...when we went to get Buddha...he was one of 2 puppies there...and the other one was his sister (but we had to get the male because we HAVE a female)....we unfortunately don't know his background or anything...but since he is a pit mix...i knew that we would HAVE to do all we could to make him non-threatening because he already has the stigma of the breed riding on him...I knew we'd have to take him to all the classes and get him VERY well trained...and socialized...and give him a non-threatening name...

I wanted to make sure he's not like Riely...shes hyper...and not as socialized as she should have been...shes a brat...she likes to bark at other dogs...in the car...in the pet store...shes that dog that barks at other dogs from the window of a moving car...she's a pain...but a TOTAL sweetheart...she only jumps on people because she wants to drown them in kisses....she goes to Planet Pooch for playdays on a fairly regular basis...and shes okay...she gets some time outs...but she's good at heart....we're going to enroll her in the Grumpy Pup course because of her behavior when shes on a leash....like in the pet store...shes the ONLY dog barking at every dog she sees...its embarassing...Riely doesn't listen very well when shes amped up either...she cant be trusted off leash because she bolts and doesn't come when shes called...

i wanted to make sure that HE will come when he is called if ever he did get off a leash...