question about camping with a pittbull
The wife and I just bought a camper and want to get back into camping. This time around we have two dogs. Both are rescue "mutts" and one is part Pitt. First campground I called to make a reservation ...
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Pawz4me - as I mentioned above, the dog's purpose accounts for a majority of that difference. Shepherds, rotties, and even pits are brought home to "protect" and "guard". As such, they are put in a backyard and left. Unsocialized, uncontrolled, and often illtreated. To blame the breed in those cases when it is the owner who is failing is wrong. But that's what happens.
I had a neighbor once who bought a pit/rottie/chow/shar pei/dobie mix puppy. He told us "I'm going to treat him mean so he'll protect us". Fortunately, he let the puppy run loose and it disappeared within a couple days. Last I heard, it was living about 100 miles away with a good family... Now, had this guy raised this puppy, it would have been a huge problem dog. But, in its new home, it was the sweetest gentlest dog. It wasn't the breed that was going to make the dog dangerous, it was the owner.
As long as we allow people to use the excuse "it's the breed", we will always have these problems. Instead, we need to focus on the individual parings of dog and owner.
When I did fostering, I got comments about "taking too long" to place the dog and "being too picky" about the potential owners. But my dogs never came back into the system and were carefully matched with their new owners. As a result, I usually ended up with the hard to place dogs because I could be trusted.
I had a neighbor once who bought a pit/rottie/chow/shar pei/dobie mix puppy. He told us "I'm going to treat him mean so he'll protect us". Fortunately, he let the puppy run loose and it disappeared within a couple days. Last I heard, it was living about 100 miles away with a good family... Now, had this guy raised this puppy, it would have been a huge problem dog. But, in its new home, it was the sweetest gentlest dog. It wasn't the breed that was going to make the dog dangerous, it was the owner.
As long as we allow people to use the excuse "it's the breed", we will always have these problems. Instead, we need to focus on the individual parings of dog and owner.
When I did fostering, I got comments about "taking too long" to place the dog and "being too picky" about the potential owners. But my dogs never came back into the system and were carefully matched with their new owners. As a result, I usually ended up with the hard to place dogs because I could be trusted.
