another pit...in my yard...again - Page 3

Remember all of you,,,,,,,,all the 4 year old and the two year old in Tyler, was a friendly tail wagging pit and there was another older lady in Palestine, tx and a pit came into her yard...she didnt know it was a pit   , never saw a pit,, nieve older lady, and it wagged its tail ,,seemed friendly,      she fed it ,once  , it stayed and the third day it mauled her, and she almost didnt survive.......dog was killed on site......it had belonged to someone,,,,it wagged its tail    ......

From all stories I read here, in my section , of the world, and the testimony of the animal control Sheriff deputy lady, bit many times by them...they act friendly,,,,but a key in their brain    ,,,unlocks and bingo.......study cases if you want to....I wouldnt want my pup to touch a stray dog,,,,that is how parvo travels all over the county.....dog walks from yard to yard and carries any thing you can name.........if you put it in Boss;s kennel  ,,,,be sure to do a chlorox wipe down afterwards.....comet or the countertop chlorox will work     

Do not trust any stray ..........u are a stranger.....might like you for a minute or two   its too late when you get bit or your kids....

I live in the country also, and thank goodness fully fenced into the woods, but by the creek on my property,,,is a break in the fence and a culbert ,and if dog is smart enough can come into my place.....one day last year,,,,you guessed it    ,,,,,   a pit bull mix , I think, mixed....came thru that hole..   my dogs were all up, and I was scared into the defensive mood.....grabbed meat   thru it in a kennel , and in it went   ,,,,slammed it shut and flagged down a truck driver on the busy hwy, to help me load , and to the pound I went.......no way finding who out in the county  ,,,,no neighbors near, and people live on 40 acres tracts herer, and you dont drive up to anyones door.....gates are locked,,,,,and their are 10 roads to no where, dirt, and you couldnt find the owner if you wanted.too.....

The sheriff deputy told me how he would have solved the solution, but Im not to tell that......

YELOWROSE--  i didn't even think of that! the dog bringing a diesease into boss' pen, i guess i won't put it in there, his pen has a dirt floor, would not be easy to disinfect.....

and i know what you mean about them telling you how to slove the problem, the way things are around here , i have a feeling that i will be told the same thing....

SHOOT! boss is pacing and pawing the door, he's ready to go out....how should i do this ? should i carry a stick? maybe i just go by the waterhose and squrit the dog if it comes near?? i have a b-b gun...i don't wanna hurt the dog but i guess i could bring that just in case....well im going out, wish us luck....

It's kinda ironic that you hear all the horror stories about the Pit bulls, but you don't hear about the good one's. In our area, they said on our local radio station, that a lady was taking a walk in her field when suddenly a Red Chow out of no where came after her, and she was trying to fight the dog off of her, until the Chow knocked her down to the ground. She said her whole life flashed in front of her, and she just couldn't believe that she was going to die this way. Then all of a sudden 2 Pit Bull's(yes 2 Pit Bull's)came charging over by her, and she really thought this was it, until the 2 Pit Bull's went after the Chow, not her and saved her life. They got rid of the Chow, and then they took off. No, these were not her Pit Bull's either. She has No idea who owns these two Pit Bull's that saved her life. I personally think any dog can be unpredictable depending on their raising and training. You just don't hear the good stories of this breed. I also watched on NGC dog's with jobs on how this woman trained her Pit bulls to become SAR dog's. At this time she was the only one that had Pit Bull's as SAR dog's. Should everyone own a breed like a Pit Bull? No, this breed isn't for everyone, as many breeds are not for everyone. IMO the Pit Bull has the bad rap because of people not because of the dog making them this way.

SHELLY--yes it's the owners, yes, some can be wonderful dogs, yes, we should also be hearing good stories about any breed....I have said on here how my couison has taken in one of the pit puppies we found, she named it sweet pea and it is a sweet dog....i said in the begining tho, this is not about pit bashing...not the pits themself, its just seems around here to be the most common breed people are buying- then dumping, i can tell you the last 10-15 dogs that have shown up here in the last few years, were pits or pit mixes except for two that looked to be a australian (spell) shepherd and some kind of hunting dog, i did the same thing when those two were lurking in the yard-- because they were unknown dogs......it use to be very common for mostly hunting dogs to show up, but we are surrounded by hunting clubs and these were usually just dogs that got lost while hunting, or their track went through the yard.....now it's almost always pits....wether or not a good dog, it is more than likely that this full grown male is not gonna back down from a fight, and from experience BOSS would not stop trying to fight it untill it was out of this yard....also what worries me most about a pit is that i have seen them grab vital ares and not let go, if a dog with this strength got its jaws on my little dogs i would not be able to get it off, and rosce is so old and he has arthritis..it wouldnt take much to kill him....i am not pit- bashing, i am>> bad -people-dumping -dogs  bashing....

Well, our walk  around the yard was uneventful, thank goodness, the dog seems to be gone for now...while i was out there tho someone riding down the road on a golf cart stopped and asked me if Ive seen a big black lab...i haven't seen it --but KELLY- i luv labs, use to be the only big dogs i'd have,and use to be the most common stray to show up- but i would not trust this dog either with my kids or dogs- had i seen it in the yard.....

but this got me wondering, maybe one of our females, i have one- my hubbys aunt has one (fixed) and me hubbys grandpa has one (fixed)...maybe females are fixin to go into heat and are drawing dogs here? can even fixed females give off that sent? I mean if their hormones can cause them to have false preggy when they are fixed can it do the same with going into heat?

also, maybe it got over looked but i had asked about boss throwing up twice when we got inside, could the stress of this moring caused that? also just now when i took him out to potty he had bad diarreah....

iluvmyGSD,

  The dog in the picture you posted is not a Pitbull. It could have some Pit in it and maybe it doesn't.  There is an Auto Parts Store in the nearest town.  The owner of the Auto Parts Store has a GSD - Boxer cross that looks much more like a Pit than the dog you posted. The dog in the pic has too long of a coat, too loose skin and the wrong head for a Pit.

 If you don't intend on keeping the poor thing, and he wont leave, why not put him in the car and drive him to the nearest shelter. There has to be one within an hour or two. I live miles away from anyone, but I can be at the nearest shelter within an hour.

In the pic you posted of the dogs fighting through the fence,,,the dogs are feet apart? When dogs fight through a fence they are nose to nose and trying to take hold of each other. I have a bunch of mutt mixed breeds who are dog aggressive and would fence fight if they had the chance.

 If one of my GSD's were loose and the dog you pictured came around, I would have to save the poor stray.  Then if I fed my GSD he would inhale anything I put before them.  Surely your GSD is not so fragile as to not eat and be upset over such a tiny incident? 

Pits have much tighter skin, and a shorter tighter coat. The dog's skull is wrong as well.

ABHAY---this dog may not be full-blooded, i really don't think it is, it has one brown eye and one glass (blue) eyes, which i don't think is common in pits, is it? but i have known peoplewho have them and breed them--look at that head again, but i mostly see it in the dogs expression, its eyes andmuzzle, i guess maybe down south pit can look a little different but this is what they look like here.....but it doen't really matter- I don't care if it was a GSD a LAB or a collie, any unknown dog is dangerous to just assume its OK, esp when you have young kids...

looks at the pic with them fighting again, you are look at the other dog but there are two dogs in that fence, the orange dogs body is mostly blocking the one he is fighting, if you look closly you can see the other black dogs legs... and i never said that they were fighting because this dog was a pit--i said because he was full grown male, any breed males will fight other males for coming on their propety, and this dog was not backing down.....

also, i WILL not risk my health to try to load this dog...like i said before, the last one we thought was nice attacked and broke skin when my hubby and another man tried to load it, any dog that is stray may trust you enough to pet it but most dogs dont like to be picked up, even the nicest dog can freak out when it feel cornered.....

Also i do try to help them, i usually call everyone i know to see if they want to take it in, thats the only thing i can do.....the shelters will not take dogs out of their parish, they are to filled with ones in their district...I will call the nearest one i can find (if the dog comes back) just to make sure, but i doubt they will go through the trouble to come get it.....

I have tried to keep them, andhelp them, it back fired...please don't try to make me feel guilty about taking this dog in...i have KIDS to think about....what i don't understand is that when a dog attacks a kid, people always says wellwhere were the parents? here i am, trying to be a responsiable parent and keep my kids safe and im getting fussed at for that??????

sorry forgot to post that boss did eat and he seems fine now

is so hot outside i think he just got to hot and excited...

they may not be nose to nose, but It looks like hackles are up to me

zdog-- hackles were up on all of em...yall look a little closer, there are 2 dogs, the other one is being blocked by the orange dogs body cause they were nose to nose...look close and you will see the other black dogs legs.....let me check the other pic i have, maybe able to see other dog.....

see...two dogs...

iluvmyGSD,

 I wasn't  trying to make you feel guilty for not taking the dog in. You can only do what you can do. If you have a constant problem with such strays, then you are going to have to put up a tall fence or move to the inner city. Afterall, life isn't worth living if you and your children are held prisoner in your home over some stray mutt.

I have always lived in rural settings and have always taken in everything. I dont take in dogs who will bite a child, but I take in anything else. Its fairly easy for me to handle a human aggressive dog, but I can certainly see why you wouldnt want to. I wouldnt want my woman trying to do it either.

It doesn't matter what breed of dog any stray is. If a dog of any size over 30lbs is human aggressive, its not a pleasant experience to handle them.

Pitbulls are Pitbulls. It doesnt matter if they are in Canada, Mexico, Oregon or Florida. I can tell a Pitbull in a heartbeat, but I can see how someone not around them so much would have a problem. The stray in your pic, could very well be part Pit. There are lots of Pits with glass and even blue eyes.

 I'm sure your GSD wasn't the least bit intimidated by your hairy Visitor.  I hope you can find a solution to your stray problem, and please be assured, I wasn't blaming or critisizing you. Below is my blue eyed female