It's the pits

[Naughty_Pines]

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/372417/2270286

[CountryKitty]

Awesome...heartwarming and also tearjerking (I bawled over 'Benny'!)

[Pitdog]

Coulda' told you all about these :)

[MNMOM]

That was a wonderful video and sad.

[rAcErRicK]

Didn't want to watch it, but did watch most of it. Pitdog, we share the love of pitbulls, mine is half, and I have had many, most halfbreeds, and it truly kills me that the general public hates the breed so. Nothing could be further from the truth. They are without a doubt the kindest, most loving, and willing to sacrifice themselves to protect. The one I have now is a non fighter. He will not even try to protect himself if another dog attacks him. He has been bitten by several of the harmless popular breeds and continued to try to play with them while being bitten by them.

I'll tell you a true story that happened a few miles from my home years ago. A lady came home from work to find her pitbull laying on the floor choking. She scooped him up and took him to a nearby vet clinic that specialized in dogs. She confidantly left him there to rush home and see why the door of her mobile home was not locked. Before she arrived home her cell phone rang. It was the vet telling her NOT to go in her home. The vet had called the sheriff's dept. who arrived shortly while the lady stayed in her car outside her place. The deputy went inside, pistol drawn, and traced blood to a closet, opened it and found the intruder inside missing several fingers, which is what the dog was choking on. Turns out he was an escaped murderer, from the state pen. Why he broke in her home is still unknown. The dog had silently waited while he broke into her home and then attacked the intruder. Sensing that he was loosing the fight, he retreated into her closet and closed the door, and would not come out. Needless to say, the dog was a hero for many years thereafter. True story.

[Pitdog]

That is awesome! SOB got his LOL. I have ahd a lot of foster dogs over the years, saving them from cruel fates, and crueler lives already lived. I have two now, the first I ever had, which was my beloved Gretchen, almost 9 years old, and Triton. He is a two y/o blue brindle male that was headed to one of vick's friend's. Thankfully his litter was confiscated and all were homed well.

[rAcErRicK]

Pitdog, glad to hear those were saved. Hey! I saw a day or two ago that vick has declared bankrupsey ! Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy, right ? Now he's broke, and no multimillion dollar job. So sad. I just wish his buddies and anyone even related to that operation could have been included.

Funny thing about the breed. I worked outside for quite a few years installing and repairing telephones, (back when we had phone companies) remember ? Got bit by a sheppard, wirmeraner, and even a beagle ! Couple of close calls by curs, but never a pit. I used to drive up to a rural homestead, open the truck door and call or whistle for the dog that was almost always there somewhere. They would always bark and investigate me, talk to them for awhile until they came up to sniff, scratch them behind their ears, and under the chin, and we were friends. I even found a full grown male african lion under a mobile home once. Didn't pet him though, tiptoed back to the truck, and went down the road. LOL

[flatwater]

Come now rAcErRicK are ya sure your not lion about that one :o ::) ;D.
Flatwater

[rAcErRicK]

No lion Flat. I knew better cause no one was home, and that's a no no, but it was a very long way out there in the sticks, so I decided to go around back to see if dial tone was good to the protector (little green box on a stake). I had already blew the horn and hollered so the dog would come out, no dog. So I got to the power pole (where the electric comes in) and there on the ground was a large log chain, around the pole with a large padlock, and going up under the trailer. That was my first clue that I could be in a lot of trouble. Ever so quietly I leaned over to peek at what was about to eat me, and there he was, just relaxing, blinking his eyes at me. OH $h1T ! I'm a goner fer sure. Ever so slowly stood up, turned around, I know he must have heard my heart beating, it was deafening. How I kept from breaking into a dead run, I don't know, but somehow I didn't want to seem like a mouse, and very gently walked to a safe distance away and proceded to have a corinary thrombosis, could hardly walk for awhile. That was the last time I got out of my truck if there was no one home. True story Flat, you would not believe the things a telephone man runs up on ! You should hear the one about the monkey in the barn.

[rAcErRicK]

Apologies Naughty, just realized I very impolitely hijacked your thread, as it was a serious one. Sorry.

rick

[Naughty_Pines]

Apologies Naughty, just realized I very impolitely hijacked your thread, as it was a serious one. Sorry.

rick

No problem Rick. I was just trying to show that pits usually reflect the love they are raised with.

[rAcErRicK]

Naughty, and that you did. The breed and those who love them thank you.

The AKC has recently joined the fight in an attempt to resurrect their reputation. They have several very good books and pamplets on how to raise them properly.

rick

[michiganmom]

This topic is older but i have to reply. I have a pit bull female and a bassett hound/beagle male. I have had my pit for seven years, she is the best dog i have ever had. She loves people. She runs around my yard with the chickens, she has stolen our cats kittens to try and nurse them her self. I have rescued baby goats and she has tryed to mother them. She loves kids, she likes to ride on the snowmobile,in the plow truck and loves to camp.She minds me very well. That male dog i have is a pain in the ASS. I think it is how they are raised and maby inbreeding might have some thing to do with problems too, i dont know but my pit is the best dog i have ever had in my life.

[EarthMama]

I even found a full grown male african lion under a mobile home once. Didn't pet him though, tiptoed back to the truck, and went down the road. LOL

Now that's what should have been reported to the local Humane Society and to the police. Talk about cruelty to animals. *sigh*