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He was friendly and overzealous at first, completely overstimulated in any new environment. But as he matured, he developed some more serious behaviors including a pretty hefty dose of dog aggression.
I know now that my pit bull was never destined to be an eager lab or a lazy hound. It had nothing to do with how I raised him. He was strong and powerful, drivey and intense. And that was his genetics. It was part of who he was.
I had him since he was 10 weeks old, and prior to there was no trauma. We enrolled in only positive training schools, and he had never experienced so much as a raised tone in his entire life. He bit his first person when he was 9 months old, before we had even explored using aversives in our work. And he began displaying dog aggression when he turned a year old.
All of the dogs, except the two I raised together, were raised very differently, with different rules and home environments. All four developed resource guarding behaviors at a young age. All four are very vocal, all four can bark for days, and all four have a propensity for separation anxiety.
Are there lazy and uber sweet Malinois? Are there aggressive labradors? Are there pit bulls who are dog friendly? Absolutely. But is it wise to assume all of these dogs are this way when their breed characteristics say otherwise? Nope.
We need to equip owners with the correct tools for preventing unwanted behaviors, and we need to educate them about the breed, about containment, and about environmental management. And we need to stop being so judgmental and nasty to dog owners who are trying their best, but who need our help. We have to stop painting them as monsters and painting dogs as saints.
Until we face genetics head on, until we are really honest about who pit bulls are, and until we educate people about their strengths and weaknesses, people will adopt them thinking they can love the genetics out of them. That if they struggle, they are bad owners, and if they socialize them, they will never be aggressive with other dogs.
Meagan has been training dogs professionally since 2002, most recently working with private security, military and law enforcement to provide K9s for high level applications. She owns both The Collared Scholar, an online dog training academy, and 690 Security Services, a company that trains and deploys Executive Security and Protection K9s to private customers. She recently partnered with both Average Frog and SM Leaders, who repurpose the proven performance principles of the Navy SEALs for individuals and organizations.
Breeding for money , back yard breeders , indecriminate breeding . it has all lead to a over population of these types of dogs. call them any name you want but the truth is that any moron can get one and breed it and make more. The point of the artical was that Genetics are passed down and thats what you end up with ,,,,has nothing to do with the name of the breed, APBT kept as a pure working breed? Give me a brake! Game dogs are for games!!!!!
American Bulldog Johnson and Scott types are larger than pitbull terrier they have the same inbred propensity as the smaller breeds. I was dismembered and nearly bled out from a 2 hour attack with a rehomed American Bulldog Johnson/Scott type. No warning. as he came behind in the yard.
No person, group or business that has the welfare of all dogs as a priority would want to support dog fighters and their continued intentional breeding for unprovoked prolonged suicidal deadly dog aggression. Good put bulls are supposed to develop dog aggression.
Thank you, Megan Karnes, for this excellent article. As a trainer, breeder, owner for over 60 years, I appreciate your courage in telling the truth about a fraught subject. In my own breed, and our own home- bred stock, all raised the same, the differences in individuals from different outcrosses is obvious. Good breeders breed for temperament, health and longevity first!
My hound loves other dogs, and running with the pack is his greatest joy. But he has strong resource guarding behavior. Try to take his toy, or, God forbid, his bone, and he will defend it with his life.
That is how they were once and should be bred but there are a lot of people breeding to breed a not breeding for temperment that are breeding in the genetics for the poor temperments we see so commonly today
Dog aggression was so strongly selected for in the foundation of any pit bull type breed that trying to breed away from it now is very hard and that is with a breeder who is trying their best to breed away from dog aggression. Most pit bulls, especially those up for adoption are from unknown backgrounds where likely no one made an effort to use dog friendly dogs or may have wanted to breed dog aggressive dogs. In addition, many pit bull breeders accept dog aggression as an integral part of the breed and do not try to breed away from it.
Working dogs are bred for different purposes, and different characteristics are selected for compared to dogs who will become family pets. The possession these lines showed is actually quite desirable, and, with experienced working dog trainers, aggression never developed. I fully support this breeder and the choices she makes and I will continue to do so as she consistently produces outstanding working dogs, she is always there to support her dogs throughout the duration of their lives, and she places a huge emphasis on quality of life for all of the dogs she places.
I have two little bulls one female she is 2 1/2 she is the best dog anyone can ask for she is so loving and protective of her family she loves her human sister and will protect her to the end of time. She is a nanny dog we can take her to the park and she Dosent care about ducks or other dogs or any other animals she is up playing with the kids on the play ground. We were just at my nieces birthday party and we were at a park there were about 30 kids there she would go around and do a head count. There was a little girl about 15 months my dog Abby kept a extra eye on her. Her mom had gotten side tracked with other kids and the baby wondered off Abby went and really directed the little back to the party. While we have two pit bulls my male is different then my female he will let u know he is there and wants to greet everyone but because of his size and breed people are scared of him. He is alot of bark and no action. He out weighs my female by a good 30 pounds. She is no small fry at 65 pounds. My question if anyone can help me how do I get him to stop running off to greet the neahbor dog or to chase deer we live in the country. And how do I fix him chewing he will tear stuff up u find it or catch him and he knows he is in trouble how do I break him of such a nasty habit? Any advise would be welcomed.
The data from our victims support group is all we need to understand the dangers. I have volunteered and personally worked with many of the severely injured and families of those killed by canines since 2012. Pit bulls, Staffys and am bulldogs are the majority of the dogs responsible. Well loved, family dogs. Dogs that were trusted until the day they snapped. You can deny the severely injured or the death toll as much as you like. You can give examples of good dogs from these breeds too, which we understand exist, but nothing replaces missing cheeks, jaws, eyes and limbs, and nothing is going to prevent the next attack except for legislating the capable and responsible breeds. Nothing. Our victims deserve So much more.
They were originally bred to be an all purpose farm dog, strong enough to pull a cart, brave enough to deal with aggressive livestock, and gentle enough to be trusted around children. These are all qualities bred into them by the old time dog fighters.
Owning a pit bull today is a big responsibility. Centuries of dog aggression has been bred into all of them, but some dogs will never display it and happily spend their lives in multi animal homes. My own two live with a Rottweiler and three indoor only cats. Others will need to be kept as the only animal in the home.
My very high drive, working line euro dobermann was intact his entire life, he was 100% stable with dogs, cats, small furries, kids, old people, he had no temperament issues relating to having his balls left in place. My stafford mix bitch, however, is spayed and developed dog aggression afterwards.
In my province, Ontario, BSL is banning. Pit bull type dogs were banned in August 2005. Existing dogs were grandfathered with certain conditions but new dogs were not allowed to be brought in to the province or bred. You can not even visit my province with a banned breed.
Banning or limiting a breed based on such poor data seems like a bad plan to me. Make the legislation about the behavior of the dogs and how responsible the owner is instead. (Like around here there are no teeth to laws about not letting your dogs wander around the neighborhood loose, so people let them, even if you report them.)
Spend time on game dog forums, ask questions, listen to sporting dog yard videos, read the comments. Read books published before the bully dog as pets mongering began in the 1980s, books by Richard Stratton, Joseph Colby, George Armitage.
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