What happens when you cross a pit bull and a porcupine?
bill_vincent
17 years ago
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I hate when that happens...
Comments (2)I have been on vacation for a few weeks and have to think when I wake up where I am so I know how you feel. Today I'm in south central Colorado near the town of Pagosa. Last week in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Before that, Montana, Yellowstone, and Wyoming. Last month I was in eastern British Columbia. My wife and I are headed home now with a quick stop off in northern Idaho to see my brother. I thought retired life was a time I could take it easy and putter around in the garden. My wife has other plans. I hope the house sitters are having a good time. If you look close you can see the house sitter's Pit Bull. Meg is deaf and very farsighted. (Crossed with a Dalmation. Who would let that happen?!) She's a good watchdog and a real sweetie once you get to know her. My friend calls her 'Nutmeg'. ;-) In keeping with the conifer theme, the trunk on the left is a 'Hinoki' that has had the lower branches removed in the interest of more room. Mike...See MoreWhat happens when you don't have Health Insurance?
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Comments (13)Personally I think Michael Vick is a sociopath, and I live in Eagles country but am not a football fan. If a person can do what he did to living breathing animals, he deserves a way long time behind bars. . I'm sorry but I don't trust pit bulls either. I was surprised to read about Corgi's (Queens dogs) and collies being banned in Italy. That said I have a temperamental Dachshund who needs supervision. He adores cats, loves the dog he lives with, loves kids and people, but has issues with big dogs. It's in the breed but he came from iffy circumstances. Turned into a kill shelter because they had too many dogs. So he has issues, but I watch him carefully. It's the Napoleon complex plus his history. I try to socialize him all the time....See MorePit Bulls, for or against?
Comments (104)"Decades of visious and unprovoked attacks cry out for the removal of this threat from society. How many mutilated faces, mangled limbs, butchered pets, and even human deaths does it take to convince even the slowest dullard?" By that arguement, we should ban automobiles, or at least large trucks, because those have caused millions of those kinds of sitiuations. And airplanes. And other things. I am a proponent of Ban the Deed, not the Breed. Have been for a long time. However, there has never been a population of dogs like the present pit bull population. There have never been so many people intend on breeding a dog capable of such vicious instinct on such a large scale. Pedigreed pits have no such instinct. Americam Staffordshire terriers are not evil dogs. Cane corsos are bred to be evil dogs, for specific reasons. I used a lab/chow mix and currently have a GSD/chow mix as a guard dog. They were/are evil in the situations for which they are trained. I had a lab/pit mix. Not by choice. I got the lab/border collie mix(as I was told by the dam's owner) as an 8 week old pup. He was trained quite well. He was totally predictive when under control. In the house or yard or on leash. My granddaughter could piut him on his back with a grunt and a poiunted finger when she was 15 months old. I could play tug of war(No one but me, since he was storng enough to hurt even me) and say quietly No in the middle of a tussle and he stopped NOW. Immediately. Totally. Dopped the rope. People could not believe how well he was trained. But, when he got loose----and I spent over a thousand dollars in trying to contain him----he was a totally different dog. I talked to pit rescue folks and others. They all agreed, usually regretfully, he was dangerous. He attaked almost anything that moved if he was on his own and I was not chasing him. So, I had him put down. If we comdemn the bad pits, we need to condemn the bad breeders/trainers/owners....See Morefancifowl
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