Several years later, weįinally wised up and quit breeding dogs available to the public (breeding is not a money-making opportunity, and the quality of people who wanted the dogs had started goingīut I digress. We actually bred dogs for a number of years, and when we would sell a puppy we would give Richard Stratton’s first book about pit bulls to the new owners. I started researching and bought every book and magazine I could findĪbout pit bulls.
My husband and I had just married and didn’t really know much about pit bulls at the time. She was also protective of all the kids who came to see Grandma but never tried to bite a soul she would just give a warning growl and a “look."Ĭujo was the first pit bull I ever had the pleasure of Once Grandma said, “It’s ok, Princess, I’m fine,” Princess If she hadn’t heard Grandma move in a while, she’d stand up, peek inside and whine. Outside on the front porch in front of the screen door. When my husband and I got married, we let Princess stay behind to take care of Grandma. His dam, Princess, was a little white dog with tan markings. The first pit bull I met was a medium brindle male named Cujo. Maybe that was a blessing: I hadn’t heard the hype about them, so my heart was completely open. Hopefully, I can answer any questions, alleviate anyįears and introduce you to one of the most goofy, loving, and just plain ole’ happy-go-lucky breeds in existence today.īefore I met my husband, I had never seen nor heard of a I can speak from experience - and that’s what matters most, in a case like this. Rescues to fosters to puppies to our own “yard” and house dogs. We’ve owned many, many dogs - many more that we can count - from My husband and I have owned pit bulls for over 30 years. The true American Pit Bull Terrier from an experienced owner of the breed. This article - and hopefully more to come - will be about It would have the same effect, i.e., nothing.
Professional boxer or MMA fighter with preschoolers would be. Second, using puppies and kittens as “bait” to train a dog to make it fight is ridiculous - much like “training” a Dogs such as this should be put down, as they are unpredictable. Gunpowder in a dog’s system is poison, and, if it survives, it will be in constant pain, which drives it crazy and makes it First, feeding a dog gunpowder does not make it mean. These stories have been propagated by the media so often that it has become true because "low-lifes” who don’t need any dog, much less a pit bull,īelieved it and thought that was what they were supposed to do. Puppies and kittens as bait dogs, and so on. In the media, a lot of the horror stories about pit bulls that were mostly just “urban legends” have come true over the years, including stories of feeding them gun powder to make them meaner, using Unfortunately, and in large part due to misrepresentation The majority of all of the “informative” articles or educational pieces about pit bulls are written by so-called “experts” who have never even owned a pit bull, much less shared their life and love One of the hardest things for me to comprehend is how