You guys are awesome! Thank-you!

Oh yes, I know. lol. All the more reason to keep up with that savings account. lol. Good for vet bills and security deposits.


I don't think he'll ever stop hating our lovely breed, ironically before I knew she was a Pitbull mix.. He /loved/ her but someone let slip that she was in fact half pit bull and he looked like he'd seen a ghost. lol. I can't help but shake my head at him. My goal is more so to stop him from bad mouthing the APBT, the breed doesn't need another clueless moron spitting out false truths.


The Yorkie was the first dog she met when she was very young, they played on leash at my feet and involved all playbows, rolling and chasing. She's more like her bitch (Lab) when she plays then her sire, she just likes to run around like a loony with other (friends) dogs. She's def getting to big for the Yorkie now though.

My mother loves my girl, absolutely adores her really. I agree though, sometimes the only way to get someone to listen is to show them by raising a well behaved dog.

When Mollie was about a year old, my daughter had a friend that had a Yorkie, Mollie loved that pup and would play with it like crazy and never tried to hurt her. She was actually very gentle with the dog.

Best thing to do is to just bite your tongue and bear it until you can get your own place. I know it's hard, but I'd suggest keeping your dog away from them, because the first time he hears a yelp from his dogs, he's gonna freak out and could make you get rid of your pup. Just crate your pup when you can't supervise, and don't let his dogs play with your pup. It's a crappy thing to have to do, but you have to do what you have to do, until you can get back out on your own. http://www.pitbull-chat.com/images/smilies/redface.png

Fellow forum goer's, I need your help.
 

My father is one of those people who believe 'no one should own a pit bull because their all monsters'. His belief is due to two things, the media and in that my aunt (his sister) had a staffie mix (not even a true APBT) whose failing eyesight made her dog aggressive. Having my dog in the house has created tension to say the least.

One of the biggest problems for him is that my dog is young (6 and a half months) and so she just constantly wants to play with my moms dogs but to him, Loki is not playing, she is 'trying to kill them'. My dog has not once shown any signs of dog aggression and while I try to explain to my dad how I know that it is in fact play, he refuses to believe me. He gives me the same speech that pretty much goes as follows. "She's biting them, she's chasing them, she's grabbing their throats to kill them, she's barking" yada yada yada, This man has no clue how dogs play. She has never once hurt them or 'bitten', it's full on play bowing fun. To give you an idea of how careful she is with other dogs, she's 40-50lbs now and her favorite playmate is a tiny Yorkie that's smaller then her head and not once has she harmed this tiny little dog.

I've tried to get him to come out to my friends places who have large dogs so that he can see how they play but he refuses to even consider it. This is where I need some help from some fellow owners, I'm looking to find video's of pit bulls playing with whatever it is they are playing with, be it dogs, toys, whatever. If anyone can help me out by giving me some links to some video's it would help me out a lot.

Here's some (crappy cell phone videos) of my pit bull and Border Collie playing...

How does it happen that the dog is even in HIS house if he doesn't like the dog?

Carla

That was quick, thanks for the links! Hopefully by the time I see him next I'll have a nice big e-mail full of links for him.

No prob, and that's actually fairly tame for them. They can get far louder, rougher.

That is another long story. Basically my roommate ditched out on me with only two weeks notice and then my job ended at the same time. Ended up losing my house so I'm living with him for a month or so until I found a new place. I think I've found one though so with any lucky I'll out of here before July. The odd part is that he agreed to take me and the dog in earlier but now he doesn't like her, that man is very confusing at times.

Yer lucky!

Just grin and bear it and keep the dog away from anywhere it disturbs them....

Carla

Here are a few, the first couple are from when Lily was younger, the last one was from last night.

You may have to face the ugly truth that he just doesn't like your dog. My mama is the same way. I wanted to bring my Pit Jersey Girl to W.V. and she was strongly against it. Pretty much told me that J.G. would under no uncertain terms "eat" her yorkie. The bad thing is she never met J.G. Some people just won't hear how wonderful the Pit breed is. I hope you can get him to change his mind.

I wouldn't let my dogs play with a yorkie for love or money! They're edgy terriers too (yorkies) and they wouldn't last long enough in a scrap for me to get a breakstick!

Some people will just never like the breed no matter how great you show them they are.
I'm very happy neither of my parents are like that, they think my pups the greatest and spoil her just like grandparents should http://www.pitbull-chat.com/images/smilies/smile.png However they were a little nieve and I had to really drill home about potential DA and about how important it is for Athena to grow up to be a well behaved dog and about all the things she will face simply for her breed.
Just make sure your pup is well behaved and trained and maybe he'll learn to keep his opinions to himself, probably not but there's hope