Rosie & babies update!

That's great. She probably just didn't understand what she was supposed to do.

Interesting story, and even lesson, for us all.


Not least, that pit (male?!) everyone are afraid of, being a substitute mom for small defenceless kittens...





Good luck!

I have a male pit bull mix. He just adores Baby Girl's kittens. You could not keep him away from them since they were born. Pit Bulls are really loving dogs when raised by the right people.

I am so glad that Rosie has accepted her kittens.

I am so, SO happy to see this! Such great news!

As for pits it drives me NUTS when people have bad things to say about the breed in particular. My Mom has a pitbull/rottie mix named Lexi who is the biggest, sweetest baby I've ever known. She's such a doll! I'm a firm believer in a dog is born innocent, and it is all in how they are raised.

I agree with this 100%.. I CAN'T STAND it when people say or think that pits are bad dogs.. When raised by the right people, they are very very sweet and loving dogs. It's PEOPLE that make any kind of dog bad, period. It bothers me so much that most people have this bad perception of these dogs because some people choose to fight these dogs and make them vicious, but the breed its self aren't vicious, its people who raise them that way that make them mean.

It's the human at fault not the dog with almost any viscous dog(some do have issues, mostly small dogs, where they are just mean but have never met a pit that wasn't MADE that way), no matter what breed.

Most dog bites come from 'sweet' family dogs. How is this for a fact:

At least 25 different breeds of dogs have been involved in the 238 dog-bite-related fatalities in the U.S.

You make a mean dog you don't 'get' one, most dogs are not inherently bad, unless badly bred or they have mental instability. Small dogs are more likely to take a chunk out of you than a big dogs anyways. Big dogs that bite don't live long.

Taryn

Forgot to add:

When I volunteered at an animal shelter when I was 13(and 80 lbs) I would go into a cage with a 100 lb Pit Bull, 150+ lbs Great Dane, huge Rottweiler or any big dog without a second thought. The 5 lb Chihuahua or a 10 lbs Pomeranian or almost any dog under 20 lbs I was a lot more wary. Except for a mentally unstable Lab(that dog just had ISSUES, and it was in the back of the cage and I opened the door and he let me know he wasn't letting me in, his warning was on the side of the kennel he was in the day before, I wrote the caution that he would bite on his 'ticket' at that point, he was dangerous) the only dogs I ever had snap or try to bite me(I was lucky and never got bitten) were little dogs. I had a dachshund go crazy on me when some people were thinking about adopting him. It suddenly started growling and snapping, it was serious about wanting to attack us. I had to go get a leash(I had carried it into the 'get aquainted' room, stupid me) and muzzle it(and almost get bitten several times in the process) just to get it back to it's cage.

I also got bitten by a friend's Cocker Spaniel.

Like I said I had no issues going into a big dog's kennel without a second thought but did not like going into small dog's kennels because I knew there was a lot more risk of me getting bitten.

Mitzi is a dog groomer and she says most of the times when she gets snapped at or actually bit is from small dogs. She has had several where she has told them flat out to go to their vet or another groomer because she was not going to groom them again. She will give breaks to dogs that have been groomed by the ^&%#$ up the street because they have been traumatized and some are just ruined on grooming. The ^&%#$ did that to Abby(Mitzi had taken a break from grooming so we didn't go to her after evil woman), luckily it was when she was little and she never went back to her, because because being ruined on grooming is deadly for a big dog with serious grooming requirements(she was an 80 lb Old English Sheepdog.) The ^&%#$ lived behind us and could clearly see when Abby had been groomed but it and she was so bad we didn't care about neighborly relations. Abby loved the groomer we took her to for the rest of her life. Mitzi also has a MEAN little dog(Shitzu I think) who she only does because the owner is sweet and the dog is her mother's. It has bitten both the owner and Mitzi(who would never tell the owner, it got her when she groomed it's face which is the only time the dog isn't muzzled.) Mitzi doesn't even bathe it, the owner won't let her because it's so mean, the owner has to put the dog in the tub with water up to it's head and that is the only way for it not to bite her.

So you want a dangerous dog look at the small dogs not the big ones.

Taryn

Like I said I have never seen a 'bad' pit bull that wasn't MADE through training. Honestly I have never personally met a mean pit bull.

It's like anything, bad training or aggression training makes a 'bad' dog. Of course there is no such thing as a bad dog only a bad human but you know what I mean by saying 'bad' dog.

I'd trust a pit bull over a small dog any day. Like I said I'm more afraid of a dog under 20 lbs than a big dog. Most big dogs have had training and are well behaved and aggression is just simply not allowed. Watch AFV and you'll see why little dogs are so mean. Some person walking up, the little dog trying to attack them and everyone laughing, that is not funny, that is SICK. No one would be laughing if it was an 80 lb(or whatever size large) dog. If I wouldn't accept it that behavior from a 100 lb German Shepherd(or any other large dog), I'm sure as hell not going to accept it from a 5 lb(or any other small) dog. Large dogs are just better canine citizens. To me any dog under 50 lbs is an overgrown rat.

Taryn