Posted on 06/23/2011 3:53:48 PM PDT by Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
And it's up to the people, especially the dog's owner or the most dominant person in the house, to make sure the dog knows it is subordinate to all humans save an intruder.
“What was it bred to do?”
A Bull Mastiff is an excellent dog to walk to school, lay by your desk as you taught the class, then walk you back home. That sounds like one cool teacher!
It was bred to protect the herd from poachers and their dogs, to subdue and hold down a man.
As such on a walk she is unsure if people and their dogs are neighbors you greet with wagging tail and “hidey ho their neighbor!” or poachers and their dogs who are to be dominated and subdued.
My dog is usually friendly - but I keep her away as much as possible from other dogs because at a hint of aggression she is “all in”.
Luckily when small dogs get too close (off leash out of control) her first impulse is to pin them with her paws!
That was my thoughts exactly at the time. Freaked me out.
That’s the problem with a lot of dog owners my niece included. Especially if you have a big dog. They need to know how is the pack leader. And Tango obviously thinks he is. Once when we visited I had my daughter with me. Tango was body slamming my daughter out in the front yard. I got her and hi tailed it into the house. My nieces attitude was he was just playing. I said, no he was behaving aggressively. She didn’t believe me. The scary thing is, she has two small boys 8 and 5. I pray they are never hurt by that dog or the other one.
A title search will explain the name - the owner, not so much.
Stop posting keywords with the same false claim.
Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage is not Chet99 so please back off with the false accusations and personal attacks.
Just address the topic. Thanks.
Thank you.
Not wrong, I’ve done it several times.
When the dog regains consiousness, it is calm, and has no memory of what transpired, and poses no threat to anyone.
Any other approach is likely to mean seriously injured people (or sometines other dogs) and a dead dog from someone’s bullet.
I have contacted several of those breeders listed there. Most only offer online forms or email, not direct contact info, and I have yet to receive any responses. Therein lies the frustration. I will keep trying. Thanks!
Sorry to hear that.
Most reputable breeders have very, ~very~ long waiting lists for pups and getting hold of a good dog can often be very frustrating.
Many of them only sell to show homes and even then, the prospective owners get the ‘third degree’ from the breeders and have extremely complex legal contracts for the sale.
[for the benefit of the dog, should the new owner ever not be able to keep it, which is a good thing]
Then there’s the issue that you’re looking for a breed that not especially common so that makes it even harder.
I understand your frustration and wish you well.
I do hope you find your pup.
I’ll keep an eye open and if I find anything, I’ll send it to you.
Are you willing to pay shipping for a dog if the kennel is in another state?
That will increase your odds of success.
What you’re capable of and what a small, weak person is capable of may be two very different things.
Brute force may very well “work” but it’s not the best tactic or general advice for smaller/weaker or ‘average’ people.
A balled fist and a straight arm take next to no effort or “power” and achieve the same end as your suggestion.
I just don’t want people trying ‘tactics’ that could easily backfire and cause them even greater harm.
I do hope you understand my position.
In 50 years, the only dog that ever tried to bite me was a Border Collie.
I was 9.
It’s definitely a...um...’memorable’ name.
My German Shorthaired Pointer is rather funny when my husband raises his voice towards me. Now normally, she is “his” dog...but if he is gone, she immediately becomes “my” dog.
If our voices are raised in argument, she immediately protects me from him. She comes right up to me and blocks my body from any potential assault (which has never happened, of course). I swear that she just thinks he’s the fun parent...and I’m the responsible member of the pack...but I don’t have the heart to tell him...LOL!
She sounds like a very bright dog.
That is *so* ‘typical pack behavior’ which means she is a well adjusted dog who has not “forgotten” what being a dog is.
Odin does the same thing.
When we’re out together, he’s “off duty” and hubby is responsible for my safety and Odin just loves *everybody* and spends his time out and about, meeting-and-greeting and making friends.
If hubby leaves Odin’s sight, therefore, leaving me theoretically “alone and defenseless”, he -instantly- becomes a completely different dog...he presses himself tightly across my thighs, blocking the world from me and everybody is a suspect until proven otherwise.
It’s all about having a healthy pack hierarchy.
Your dog understands her responsibilities in the pack.
You’re very fortunate...:)
If hubby comes in the living room bellowing about something that’s set him off [he’s Sicilian...everything sets him off LOL] even though it’s totally unrelated to me, Odin lays across my lap.
That’s why hubby has orders to *not* vent his rage at the world in the living room where the dogs can hear it and misinterpret it as being directed *at* me instead of ranting and venting directed at The World In General.
I can only take so much loving, protective lap-crushing...LOL
“Body slamming” *is* play behavior in all breeds.
However, your niece really should work on teaching the dog self restraint and what is and is not acceptable behavior.
While a *dog* would understand and appreciate that kind of play behavior, kids, not so much.
Dogs, being four-footed with a low center of gravity can easily accidentally knock down a two-footed high center of gravity person.
Your daughter was undoubtedly a novelty to the dog and he got overly excited by a ‘new thing’ in his world.
Odds are pretty good that he doesn’t act like that with her kids whom he sees all the time and is ‘used to’.
Any chance she would work the dog on-lead with your daughter or is she not particularly versed in dog training?
“However, feel free to allow the government to choose your next dog. Good luck!”
Now where in my post did you see that??? Ans. you didn’t because I didn’t say anything about leigislation, regulation or any other governmental interference.
I do believe however that people must live with the consequences of their poor choices of which owning a pit bull is potentially one.
If anyone is harmed because of your(collectively) poor judgement, you should pay very dearly.
We live pretty far away and only see my niece about once a year. Having my daughter body slammed by a pit bull was unnerving. I never saw that behavior before from a dog, at least not that I can remember.
I’ve seen it every day for the last 43 years.
With 5 or 6 going all at once, sometimes the back yard looks like a huge pinball machine..:)
Maybe by the next time you visit, the dog will have emotionally matured *or* the niece will have properly trained it.
I know some of the things dogs do are unnerving to us but they tend to understand our body language better than we understand theirs.
Bottom line is, if you feel uncomfortable having your child near the dog, then don’t.
It’s your child, your choice and your right.
lol....it’s probably pretty funny to watch dogs do it to one another. And if you are around the dog a lot I suppose it wouldn’t be so unnerving. I have a rat terrier, or should I say terror...lol She’s actually pretty well behaved, took a lot of work to get here there. I can see that terriers need a strong personality and a large terrier could really be trouble if not well controlled.
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