Cats/pet policy

I know of one pitbull who lives in a motorcycle sidecar, he and his owner sleep in a tent. The're in their 7th year of traveling. Spirit does prefer cars or trucks, especially air ride passenger seats..I think he likes the view.
Spirit was a rescue dog, is now legally classified as a companion dog.
Years ago I had an Irish Setter that had been owned by a driver. Whenever I opened my pickup door...instant dog. He loved riding.
Y'all drive safe and watch out for idiots.
Mary

 

There's a difference between a dog that likes travelling and a dog that won't get crazy living in a truck. He's in the truck all day. When does he get out? There aren't many/any places on the road that you can take a dog to and just let him loose. Most dogs, like a pitbull, don't want to spend 20+ hours in the truck a day.

 

I'm a dog person but around here, pitbulls are used for fighting and a status symbols, so I don't see them as nice pets or companion animals but tools for one or two purposes. We had a guy attacked by one, had a cop attacked by another and since we got them in the neighborhood again, our small animal population has gone down. Not to bash this dog but if I was to see him going into a restaurant or other places a companion animal is allowed, I would complain and leave.

Back to the cat and mr. kitty problems. I forgot to mention that the soft paws covering does work gut the one thing that you have to watch is if your cat has fast growing claws. We got one cat whose claws grow fast and I have to trim them every week, I think she sharpens them with a file to get them nice and perfectly sharp. She had soft paws on a few times and one or two would pop off occasionally.

 

To me, this statement is just stupid. Any and all dogs can be mean. Why single out Pitts? Are you the same way with rotts? Doberman? Mastiff? Don't blame the dog. I have three pitts, they all think they are lap dogs. They stay inside, and want nothing more than to curl up in my or my wife's lap on the couch. Again, don't blame the breed.

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True abn75...
I blame owners with ego issues for 99% of any animals temperament problems and social behavior, not breed.

Then again, I also think megacarrier recruiters should be declawed, not the cat.

 

You can say what you want but for many who have to deal with the problem of their lack of responsible owners tied with the fact they are the dog of status in the inner city (and some white trash) and bred for fighting more than any other purpose, you can make all the claims you want, but the fact is that people don't fight Mastiffs, Dobies, Rotts or even poodles here but they do pits and their over breeding with a lot of inbreeding has caused the problem with their stability.

Detroit was a hundred years ago the dog fighting capital of the world and has returned and instead of having a responsible city leadership which controlled strays, it has no leadership and we have packs of dogs running around here with a lot of them are pits. The city has to deal with having the US postal service suspend deliveries for people because of the number of attacks in the city (there were over 900 reported attacks and something like 300 estimated attacks not reported), we have had people mauled by them, kids have been killed by a few pits in the last year, one of them had to two large men beat the dog with hammers to break its jaw to release a 6 year old girl who was in her yard, she survived but has to go through some horrible surgery.

I don't blame the breed, I blame the owners who have them. If there wasn't a need to be like a gangsta with the breed, then I would think they would be nice pets but I don't trust them and don't want to be around them.

 

So dont blame one breed for what happens in one area. It's not like that everywhere.
Mary

 

It's basic profiling. If you say you don't do it, you're lying. Pits are the kind of dog you need to be careful around, because of it's potential. They're looked at as a weapon, and they share some similarities in this respect. On their own, they can be completely harmless, but when you know how often they're used for violence, you generally become smart enough to want to stay away from them.

If you have one, or you have some good friends that do, you can usually count on that dog being gentle. If you see one somewhere else with some owner you don't know, or by itself, are you telling me that you'd go up and pet him, or would you keep your distance? Most people don't keep pits because their just so cute, there's other breeds that fit that "role" better.

 

Hmmmm. I dont go up and pet any dog without an introduction.
Interesting aside...more people are bitten by very small dogs ( mostly chiawawswaws...however you spell those little yappy things) simply because , well, they're small.
Mary

 

Yeah, but I could smile while a chihuaha (however you spell that..) nibbles on my hand all day, lol.