[quote]Professor X wrote:
I just got a pit. He’s about two months old now and growing super fast daily.
To address the post right above me, it is all about how they are raised. My dog goes crazy around other people right now. He likes people and other dogs. While he will likely become more aggressive and protective as he gets older, he isn’t going to change into some killing machine unless I trained him that way.
This dog is the smartest one I’ve had so far…and I had a German Shepherd also. Totally different attitudes and personality. My german shepherd was too big and single minded to ride in the car with me. This pit follows me around all day and has already picked up on how to act in the car. He is also house trained at only two months with only a few minor incidents that he hasn’t done again in weeks.
I want him to be a protector so I know I can’t bring him everywhere with me and will eventually have to let him stay outside way more to get that mindset.
From what I have seen with this one, it is ALL about the person raising them. I have a smart dog who stops when I tell him to stop, won’t even walk upstairs unless he pauses first to look at me to see if I give permission (I only told him to do this one time but he does it every time now). and who basically acts like I would if I lived on four legs and couldn’t speak.
They are strong willed though so the person who can’t be consistent with demands and training will get an out of control dog. I would imagine that alone is why so many have been mishandled. He gets really playful though around other people right now and stops following directions unless you speak firmly to him. Things like that, if let slide, would lead to problems getting older so you have to balance letting him be a puppy with making sure he doesn’t develop bad habits.
He tried chewing on the door panel once about 2 weeks ago but hasn’t done it since then after being reprimanded.
I wouldn’t peg this type as the kind you can leave in the back yard to grow on their own like a shepherd. They need to be taught and trained…almost like kids. They are too fucking strong to not raise them right.
I haven’t hit my dog once. To reprimand him I had been holding him by the neck and hitting the back of my own hand so he hears the sound and then putting him outside for a few minutes. That seems to be working so far.[/quote]
X-
thanks for the opinion and insight, inherently having owned a shepherd who was a working dog…i get it, we mold them into the dog they become, most of our dog is a reflection of how we act feel and carry ourselves, take genetic predispositions and pour all of that into the mold of the outward projected US and that becomes the dog. many douchbags have douchbag dogs. it’s not 100% true but they act how we want them to act.
my rant in the beginning was more focused on LOOKS, much like bodybuilding, w/ pits and dogs similar this cross section of ghetto dumb fucks have suddenly become breeding experts and created dogs bred soley for a look verses breed stability. so we have some massive jacked pits who live to age 5 and then die of obscure illness, or can’t walk because of hip/joint malady. but…for the three years that ghostface36 walked the block he was nice kid.
i’m being a bit stereotypical to drive the point, overall americans fuck up dog breeding - breeding dogs for the wrong reasons. on an even more micro level, the cross section of hoodculture have fucked up pit size and structure for 20+yrs.
X- enjoy your boy!!! i miss my shepherd so much, i had him as mentioned from age 23 to 36…a hell of a run. fuck everything i own is named cyrus, that was his name.
