Pit Bull Owners! Help!

[monaliesa]

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[monaliesa]

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[DieselsMom]

I hope you don't mind me jumping in...

It sounds like you really need to find a new trainer. Personally, if this were me, I might reconsider even finishing this puppy class. It seems to me that if Buddha is going to be treated differently, that would just encourage him to behave as expected. He sounds like a pretty smart little guy and wants to do what is expected of him. I'd be afraid that bad advice from a trainer could only encourage him.

I know you mentioned his age somewhere, but I don't remember - was it 16 weeks old? If so, then good grief, Is this trainer serious?!?!?!

--Carol

[stacwase]

I'm not a pit bull owner myself. But - I don't see what the problem is!!! He's nice to people and he's nice to your dog. Big deal if he shows a little bit of alpha behavior with small dogs. SOMEBODY has to be alpha! If there's a problem, just don't bring him around small dogs when he's off leash!

I mean - Max is a shepherd/rott mix. He looks big and scary. He's sort of dominant as well. We live on the bus stop corner. Whenever the little kindergartners are being dropped off or picked up, Max is indoors. Whenever we take him for a walk in town, he's on a leash. When smaller dogs are around we keep a close eye on him.

We still love and enjoy him, and we won't let anybody make us feel bad about who he is. Max is Max, and we love him!

Budha is Budha. If he's not hurting anybody, and you're not having problems with him at home, then you're fine. Nobody should try to make you feel bad about him.

[KitKat023]

My JoJo(American Staffordshire Bull terrier/same thing as pitt) was never taken to a "trainer". Her parents were both champion pullers, and they enjoyed what they did. They were both trained very well, non-aggressive towards anything, but they all growled when they played, but it was just a playful growl. She was trained by her breeder, though she tries to play dumb a lot, she is very good with every thing except heel, when she goes for a walk, she's in control. You don't take her where she wants to go and she'll take you. He parents pulled, so can she. She was never trained for pullin, only for showing, but she decided to chase a parked car on day last year and hurt her nose, and put her out of the show ring. She is a sweetheart, and very protective of her brother Artica and her sister Sahara. She had a problem with cats, so when we moved, a friend kept her for a couple of weeks, so the kittens could get their smell about the house, and when JoJo came home, she smelled the cats, and decided they were here 1st. She quit trying to hurt them and now they lay together.

[monaliesa]

When I posted that thread...it was about a year ago actually...

now he's a full grown boy...he's about 1.5 years old now..if you look at the pics you can see how huge he is...he's way bigger than Riely...about 85 pounds maybe?

he's a sweet dog...they rarely go out on walks though...Buddha is too much for me to handle...he'd pull me down the street...

and they really play a LOT though...they roughhouse for hours every day so they get more than enough exercise...by the end of the night they're snoozin on the couch because they're tired...they also run up and down the stairs a lot...

it works for our little family though...they're totally content the way things are...they have plenty of fun with each other...

Buddha - he's a lil buttface to Riely sometimes...but she's just as bad...but when Rielys paws were hurt (hubby ran her a lil too much on concrete one day with his rollerblades and her pads got raw)...buddha kept walking over and licking her paws for her...and bringing the ball over to try to get her to play...and when he gets tired...he likes to snuggle with Riely

he did finish his puppy classes...and we still do his commands with him...he's very good at them...much better than Riely with listening...all in all...he's a big loveable doggie....

[KitKat023]

Yeah I saw the pics, and figured time had passed since it was posted, My JoJo is about 2 years and 2 months old. It was just something I saw that I had expirianced, so I though I would post anyways...

[monaliesa]

I feel you on the pulling thing...i mean...he weighs half as much as I do....

hubby says we need to get one of those big chain leads with the leather handle they use for the big dogs...where they have to stay right at your side because its really short...

I almost kinda like how they dont really go outside much...(besides out in the side yard but that is fenced)...they dont get fleas...they dont get worms or anything...they dont get very dirty....and no 'outside forces' to worry about....i mean...we control both of them and what happens in our house...

Buddha gets cold easily anyway...he hates it outside...he seems like he waits till he absolutely HAS to go and then he's like 'lemme back in!!!'....he wont even pee and poo at the same trip outside...he runs out..pees....and then comes back in...and 2 minutes later he's like 'I gotta take a crapppp!!!!'....sometimes he begs at the door for a while and REALLY wants to go out...and we open the door...and either its too cold...wet...raining...or too dark and he wont go out unless I stand out there with him...and he runs away over to the other side of the room and kinda bows down like 'no...you cant MAKE me go!'....

its a SMALL fenced patio...he's such a wuss...

but when they're outside...there might be a cat they wanna chase...or I could be caught off guard and drop the leash...or we could get run over by a car...and in my house theres no strange people I have to worry about whether they'll wanna bark at or lick or whatever...

they have each other...and we play with them inside a lot...they seem like happy campers to me...

[KitKat023]

JoJo, well she seems to get into more trouble then the other 2 dogs, she taught the youngest how to mess up the cat liter, she tried to teach him how to torment the cats, but he took up for the cats. The cat's out number the dogs 2-1, I wouldn't mess with them if I was JoJo, 6 cats and 2 dogs to one dog??? even a pit wouldn't match those odds. I still remember when we couldn't get her to bark, she's very quiet... oh well, so much for quiet now....mailman... gotta go take Artica and Sahara outside to say hi and get their daily treats from him....(JoJo's already outside, but on the other side of the house...)

[monaliesa]

Buddha has his moments...

Like...if we both go upstairs...he sees that as a signal to go poo or pee downstairs...like "i was at the door, but you were upstairs and didn't let me out!"...

i swear...we could be downstairs for 10 hours and the 5 minutes we go upstairs he'd poo...

I think he's just thinking 'muahahaha...now I dont have to go outside in the cold...'....he wouldnt DARE squat if we were sitting right there...but since we're out of sight he's a lil ass....

Riely just likes to chew up random stuff while we're gone...we THINK everything is out of her reach...but she finds SOMETHING off our "learning heap of a kitchen table full of crap we dont want Riely to chew up"....actually I dont think I've ever eaten on that table...even once...its just a 'high surface' for piling stuff on...

[KitKat023]

all mine like paper, or if they see something on a counter top or up high, they will enlist a cat to knock it down, or if a cat want's in something, they will knock it down for the dog to open and well you get the idea.... my house is a disaster after having the flu..... one of our bed rooms has our only bathroom in it, they've decided that if we can go inside so can they.... scary...we've had to restart potty training all over agian....that's exactly why JoJo is outside..... JoJo likes to run off and make me chase her, my other 2 stay in my or my neighbors yards, where I can see them(my neighbors welcome them any time) so I don't keep them on runners like I do jojo. We don't have a fenced in area for any of them as we rent this house(can't wait to get out of here into my mom's house after she builds her new house!) But when we move, they will have a fence and a big yard to play in!

[monaliesa]

our only prerequisite for househunting was 'a fenced area'....

we live in a townhouse...and we finally found a place with a small fenced patio...its probably 15x8' or so...its concrete except for a small strip at the far end where there are 2 small trees...the first thing we did was put up a small fence to fence of that area...

they were so used to being on a leash and going in our front yard when we rented...they headed for the SMALL piece of dirt area in the yard...and were making a mess...

it took them a while to get used to peeing and poopin on concrete...but its easy for us to just scoop and hose down...the old yard was a pain in the ass...with poo...if it rained getting all soggy and stuck in the grass...and the grass was dying from the pee...concrete is much easier...and they dont step in it as much cuz they can see it better...

[KitKat023]

lol, when my youngest pup goes next door(fenced in) for the day, they have more yard that concrete and he goes on the concrete..... don't understand him....I posted about him earlier, about how he acts blind...

[monaliesa]

doggies are weird..

when we first moved they were like...

"but mommy...theres no grass! where do I go???"

[Layka3000]

Doggies are not weird they are sooooo, cute!