And now, the owner of every well-bred, well-mannered and trained pit bull hates me.\u00a0 So before y’all start flaming me, let me explain.<\/p>\n
Going for a walk with any of my dogs becomes a stress-inducing exercise because so many dogs are out of control.\u00a0 But hands down, the worst is coming up on a pit bull; because I never know how the dog is handled so I have no way of predicting what I’m coming up on.<\/p>\n
In the same way I used to hate coming up on Doberman Pinchers or Rottweiler\u2019s, I now loathe coming up on Pit Bulls.\u00a0 They’re the new designer “dude” dog, the more animal aggressive the better.\u00a0 If their owners need to use big wide collars and heavy chain leashes to\u00a0barely<\/em> control them, that’s a totally cool thing because “man, my dog is sooo bad”.\u00a0 And if there’s a hint of scarring on the dog, as if it were used in fighting, well that’s extra cachet.<\/p>\n What IS that.\u00a0 It was crazy with the Dobies and Rotties being all about aggressively protecting their people (to the point where sometimes that went too far and family members got hurt) but this, this is inexplicable.<\/p>\n People:\u00a0 Dog fighting = BAD.\u00a0 Why is it cool if you’re dog looks like he (or she, but more often he) has been in a fight and is ready to go another 10 rounds?\u00a0 If you’ve rescued your dog, THAT’S cool – and those people have my utmost respect.\u00a0 I’m not talking about them.\u00a0 And no, I’m\u00a0 not talking about the gang bangers from the inner city, that’s a whole other discussion.\u00a0 I’m talking about the suburban young man (usually, rarely a young woman) who has this whole ‘gangsta’ thing going on.\u00a0 Let me say it again, people – dog fighting is BAD.<\/p>\n So back to my grumble.\u00a0 I can’t get away from these people and their out of control dogs.\u00a0 I don’t even try to walk my Pomeranian, she’d be a tiny mouthful for these dogs so she is a total house dog.\u00a0 And because my two other dogs are large shepherds, I get attituded on by these owner\/dog pairs, which circles me back to the stress.\u00a0 I run into these folks in pet stores, on sidewalks, in the park.\u00a0 I wont go to dog parks because of them.\u00a0 And I know I’m not the only one.<\/p>\n I know the breed is maligned and has been co-opted by a “bad element”, and I’m sorry for that.\u00a0 But I live here, I own a house, I pay taxes, I feel like I have some right to feel put out when I can’t even go for a walk in my neighbourhood.\u00a0 I hope that there is a seachange and the cachet runs its course soon.<\/p>\n And if you have a pit bull that needs understanding and training, although I’m a dog trainer I’m not the trainer for you.\u00a0 Instead, I recommend\u00a0\u00a0Bobby Dorafshar of K9s Only\u00a0in Tarzana.\u00a0 And maybe when we meet on the street, YOUR pit bull will be the under-control one, I hope so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And now, the owner of every well-bred, well-mannered and trained pit bull hates me.\u00a0 So before y’all start flaming me, let me explain. Going for a walk with any of my dogs becomes a stress-inducing exercise because so many dogs are out of control.\u00a0 But hands down, the worst is coming up on a pit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p106iZ-7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moonwillow.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moonwillow.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moonwillow.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moonwillow.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moonwillow.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/moonwillow.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"http:\/\/moonwillow.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moonwillow.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moonwillow.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moonwillow.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}