Posted on 08/21/2010 9:47:54 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma
Woof ‘n Bump
I was really enjoying your home page here! UNTIL I SAW THAT SNAKE! Sheesh!
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Definitely not enough mauling in that video! And some of those women running should have been wearing sports bras.
It’s a perfectly harmless Hognose Snake.
Pretty cool bit of mimicry, IMO....:)
[sure beats his other trick which is playing dead]
No. Snake. Is. Harmless.
None. At. All. (HA!)
I CAN dig for earthworms though...!!! And hold them, and bait a hook...now aren’t you proud of me?
I absolutely do not trust pit bulls, I swear its a dog species that is practicing Al Taqiyaa, the Muslim act of lying and deceiving, to fool others.
I almost hesitate to post this, but I think as a public service, and to raise awareness, you should see the intense and ruthless training regimen my son is putting his Pit Bull puppy through.
This is happening right in his mother’s back yard, with her consent.
Words cannot describe it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPXlui2Inbg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tKv3eIwVb8&feature=related
Yeah, yeah, yeah..... blah, blah, blah... whatever.
Then you should have clicked the video “pit bull fight”.
It is my firm belief that EVERYONE who fights dogs *or* watches dog fights have microscopic penises and are “compensating”.
[or are secretly flaming homosexuals]
We just came back from Martinsburg Bike Night [sponsored by the Blue Knights MC] and there wasn’t 10 feet of room without a pit bull in it.
[must be the WV state dog]
Nary a snarl, yip, bark or ounce of aggression in any of them, all passing by each other constantly, lead by owners who were otherwise occupied looking at hundreds of bikes and vendors.
One little kid passed one lying on the sidewalk beside its burger chomping owner and she stopped and *pounded* the dog’s head affectionately, saying “nice doggy!”.
He just shut his eyes and endured the well intentioned thumps, with a tail-tip wag for her efforts.
The “problem dog” was Jack Russell with way too much bravado for his own good.
They ignored him, too.
LOL!!!!
Gosh, I wonder which of the two of these has the alpha personality! :)
~Not~ the Pit Bull.....
It’s the humans....always the humans. Seriously...
Scary picture there!
Seriously? I’d have guessed it WAS! And NOT cuz it’s a pit...but just cuz!
Lol indeed!
The Pit is the little black one.
The bossy dog is a Beagle/Lab/Shepherd mutt. It pushes EVERY other dog around. We keep her ‘cuz she’s a great hunter. Not gunny at all.
On the 4th of July, it looked up a couple of times, but was not phased in the least by fireworks. When she hears a bang, she just looks for falling ducks.
Then the “mutt” was just being a good “mommy” and LETTING the puppy act big.
Or, I need to go to bed now....?
(And yes, I did know the black-fierce-man-eating-puppy was the Pit). :)
My oldest GSD, btw...while she’s NOT the mom to any of the other dogs...is the oldest. She waits till her brood is fed before SHE eats. She pretty much lets them have their way, until SHE has had it. And then Watch Out!
Those are PRECIOUS!!!!!! Especially the second one!
“Boop! I gots yer nose!”
Nothing better than a playful kitten and a big gentle dog.
Fishing is better with blood suckers and needle nose plyers to pick them out of the bucket...one sucker will last 1/2 day of catching (not fishing) :O)
ok, so I had to go look.....ewww on the snake.....awwwww.....love the photos of Sam asleep on thwart. He’s so cute...looks like he’d give big sloppy kisses ;)
you should realize that my comment to Gramma was sarcasm and that it was an inside joke to her (re:Chet99)
Are they powerful, muscular dogs capable of injuring people? Yes, along with many other breeds. The desire to do so isn't present in one that isn't raised to behave that way nor deliberately bred for agressive traits.
Some of the most beloved dogs in the country, historically, have been so-called "Pit Bulls," but weren't called that at the time. Victor, the RCA mascot. Petey, the faithful dog to all those little rascals on Our Gang. The breed being regarded as some sort of monster is a recent invention.
Pitbull ping!
You’re right.
It’s mean to deny that poor puppy a toy.
Cruel brutes!
Oh.
Sorry.
I’ll put the soap box away, then.
:)
When I was young we owned a male and a female pit bull. We bred them and sold the pups. We always cut their tails since fighting pits is so prevalent where we live.
Our female was the biggest baby ever.....and the start of my love for pits.
I owned pits for many many years and NEVER had an aggressive one. As they say, it is all in the training.
Later my husband and I switched to Boxers. Our first boxer scared everyone to death. My husband trained her.
As they say, it is all in the training.
Are they big?
Yeah.
Can they be dangerous?
Sure, same as _everything else on earth with teeth or horns or hooves_.
Have people abused some of them and turned them into something they really aren't?
Yeah.
Should the breed be banned?
HELL no.
Will I own at *least* one until the day I die?
Betcher ass I will.
[and I just made the horrible mistake of sticking my hand near Odin's mouth as he was eating his bloody breakfast steak and drew back a stump hand full of smoochy 'Thank you for the meat, Mom" slobber.
That'll learn me.
...:)
Thanks for the pings!
Every one I’ve ever met was sweet as honey except for the poor thing some stupid cow was taking to “training classes” to socialize it at PetCo.
[she waited until it was _a year old_ to -start- ‘socializing’ it?!?]
First, she had it tightly -muzzled- and it was so terrified at being rendered helpless by having its mouth tied shut, it growled at everyone, just out of pure fear.
[and she just could *not* comprehend the connection, no matter how plainly I made it]
I sat down beside the dog on the floor, averted my gaze and within seconds, it started to sniff me and tentatively accept my hands touching him.
It even wagged its tail.
[he tried to lick my hand but couldn’t get his tongue out of his mouth because of that infernal face bondage device]
Then, some other people came up to him and she grabbed him and -shoved- him into them, insisting he “socialize” with them.
More growls.
Stupid cow.
She’s dooming that poor, beautiful dog to death by needle, some day.
Odin, at the tender age of 6 weeks, accompanied me into every store I frequented, happily observing the world from the shopping cart in which he was riding.
He willingly accepted all the “ooohs” and “aaahs” offered by passersby and the infinite pets and cuddles from kids and adults.
Soon, he got too big to ride in the cart any more and we did it all over again, with him walking alongside.
He loves everyone, especially little kids.
I look at him now and I think of that handsome little red nose pit and wonder if he’s even still alive.
It breaks my heart.
I saw a similar thing happening at PetSmart’s “training” class.
The girl in charge sold a GSD pup’s owner a “Halti” and “no pull” harness that works by inflicting pain on the dog’s armpits to “control” his pulling.
Even though I showed her the -better- way, she went off, jerking the poor pup’s head with the “Halti” [damn the cervical damage, full speed ahead!] and was still being dragged, regardless of the “no pull” harness.
Life is simple:
“Tension in the leash = tension in the dog.”
How hard is *that* to understand?
If Odin pulls the leash tight, we just STOP.
When he backs up and the leash is lax again, we continue.
It’s amazing how fast the average dog “gets” the connection.
Pull = shut down.
No pull = happy exploring.
Yesterday we were on our way to Bike Night in WV and got behind a guy hauling a kayak and an unleashed Boxer in the back of his pickup.
He was swerving and making quick turns and stops, tossing the dog around.
I took a different out-of-the-way route because I did *not* want to be anywhere near him when his dog hit the interstate like a sack of guts.
Some people shouldn’t even own a photo of a dog.
/rant
My dad is snake-phobic so yeah, I understand.
Poor man...he spawned a kid who was *constantly* catching and toting home every snake she could find.
[my bad]
He nearly had a heart attack when I brought home a dead Copperhead, skinned it and boarded it and left it on the front porch to dry.
[it was big enough for a really cool belt]
*How* he mistook a flayed and stretched Copperhead _nailed to a board_ for anything “deadly” was beyond my kenning.
At any rate, he woke me up at midnight when he got home from work and made me go out and carry it deep into the woods to throw it away.
Pffft.
There *used* to be an 8 foot black rat snake living in my root cellar.
We had no mouse problem.
Then, he and the also-phobic neighbor found it sunning itself in the land and the next I knew, it was headless and lying in the stream bed beside the lane.
They were very proud of themselves.
And now I have mice.
God put snakes here for a reason.
Sometimes the trainers are the stupidest of all. We owned a Shar Pei (Chow cousin) that was a big old baby but you had to treat him with respect because he was shy and a little fearful of other people. Everywhere we boarded him we had problems. They didn’t understand the breed.
One guy cornered him (is a no no) trying to get him back in his run. The guy told me he was vicious. A snack of any kind and he would’ve come running.
Another place they wound up putting him on murderer’s row as soon as we left because he ran to the window watching us leave while she was trying to put him up. If she had just waited til we were out of sight he would have been fine.
We finally had to stop boarding the big old baby cause everyone was afraid of him.
You have to understand the breed of any dog before you can deal with them responsibly.
You made me cry.
Amen to that.
I’ve met “trainers” that just made me stop and stare in mute shock....and they’re getting paid big money to ruin people’s dogs.
I can’t go on vacation because of my Ibizans.
I trust _no one_ to observe the hard and fast RULES “NO off lead. NO unfenced yard. NO loud voices. NO small “prey-like” animals in their presence.”
[-one- little slip up and I could easily have a flattened dog on the road]
I do have a business card from a very serious woman who comes to *your* house, observes *your* pre-stated rules and tends the dogs in *their* own home.
If I -had- to go away for more than 10 hours, for some reason, I’d call her.
All is well.... Not to worry.., I’m just a sap for big dawgs...
I’m sure you remember Texas Cowboy???
That brat would find pictures of the biggest baddest snakes he could & email them to me...
;)
Boy, I miss him...
I made my own self cry!
Oh my that video is so sweet! You know, you can’t make people change their mind. They are gonna believe what they want regardless. I love my bulldog with all my heart. And even though we’ve had several different breeds over the years, none have been as sweet, loving, or wanted to please more or be loved more, than our bulldog Rufus.
AAAArrggghhh! Kitten claws in the nose! Kitten claws, sharper than the finest needle!
Good dog really does love his kitty.
Awww. He's a beautiful boy.
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