[vetvetdoug]

The Argentine Dogo is a pit bull on steroids. I had several as patients over the years and most are easily handled and obedient. One, however, was a nightmare. The dogs weighed between 130-190 pounds. Interestingly there is documented data that a dog very similar to the Dogo was used outside Andersonville Prison to track and catch Union POW’s that were trying to escape. The photographs of the dogs at Andersonville are eerily alike a Dogo.

[tumblindice]

You might enjoy this story. My bull mastiff bitch is a large girl and she hates having her nails clipped, so I pay our vet to have it done.
The procedure involves one of his more physical assistants using a sort of half-nelson on her—and her eyes are almost all white during the drill—while he scurries from front to back and side to side with his nail-clippers.
I was trying to be helpful by kibitizing while they worked ...
The assistant lost her grip, the good doctor jumped on—they were being very professiona, very serious and I slammed the floor with my palm and said, “She’s tapped out!” and they both broke up. We finally got that last toe-nail. I like my vet.