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I have a 20 month old Boxer Pit mix named Rayden, he loves people, is very lovable and wants to be treated like any other dog however due to some people’s closed caught up in the media nonsense minds, we have a hard time doing things that most dogs enjoy such as going for walks, playing at the dog park.
I live in a city that doesn’t have any breed restrictions, A few weeks ago I took him for a walk around the block, on the other side of the street about 100 feet down was a lady walking who stopped turned the other way and speed walked, a few mins later the police showed up saying someone had called them saying there was someone matching my appearance walking a vicious dog nothing came out of this me and the cop agreed it was bull crap, but its still frustrating.
When I first got Rayden at 3 months old I took him with me to Petco to get some things and as we walked around the store a lady and her kid saw him and the lady picked up the kid and ran out of the store screaming “Oh my God its a pit bull!!”
I quit taking him to the dog park because of two times where he was being like any other dog wanting to play and sniff tail, the first time there was a large German Shepherd that kept trying to hump Rayden, i understand dogs do this not a big deal to me, until I think Rayden had enough and reached his head back and grabbed the shepherds collar and put him on the ground and just stood over him tail wagging and no longer holding onto the collar, well the owner of the shepherd freaked out and it was like my dog was trying to harm the shepherd not the case.
the second and last time I had a issue with people at the dog park Rayden was running and playing with a much larger rottweiler, they were rough housing tackling each other and so on but neither dog was whining or crying, the owner of the rottweiler didn’t seem concerned and either was eye well that changed in a hurry when Rayden tackled the rottweiler in front of the owner in the same fashion the rottweiler was doing to him the owner jumps up and smacks Rayden in the rear hard enough to spin him around, clearly I became pretty upset and about him hitting my dog for no reason.Is there any suggestions that I can try to avoid more issues?
I don’t think it is fair to me or Rayden to have to avoid things that normal dogs do because of peoples fear of what Rayden looks like, hes far from aggressive and just wants to play
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Sadly these reactions come from ignorant people fueled by the stupid press and murderers like Michel Vick. Pitties are some of the most loving and loyal dogs in the world I own 2 mix and the older is my service dog. Before the bad press and unreasonable fears they were know as the Nanny dog for their protectiveness over children. So my advice would be to stand back and laugh at the fools acting stupid but mostly be worthy of the unconditional love your fur baby gives you.
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I have no advice for you, but can understand your problem.
My mate & I have had pit bull dogs for about 12 years. We recently lost our boy to a brain tumor & adopted a pit bull boxer mix. He actually looks more pit bull than our girl.
People are so stupid sometimes. Just love Rayden & keep him away from situations where idiots have the chance to abuse him.
Gus says PFFFFTTTTT to the idiots!
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Some people are so STUPID. Never mind the uninformed, bigoted people you come across. He doesn’t even LOOK like a Pit Bull! My neighbor was afraid of Pit Bulls. One day, he started across the street to talk to me and saw the two Pit Bulls that lived next door, turned on his heels and headed back across the street, exclaiming, “Pit Bulls!” And this is a BIG, BURLY guy! I yelled, “Dan! Look!” as I bent down so they could both give me kisses…which they did. He came back over and petted both of them. And now he’s no longer scared of Pit Bulls. You can be a source of enlightenment and education by doing JUST that sort of thing. But MY advice is…DON’T take him to dog parks! A guy in Houston SHOT a Pit Bull at a dog park…JUST because he WAS one! Don’t take ANY CHANCES with your baby!
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I had a king boxer and people wouldn’t want to come near anything he was around due to the fact he was big and scary looking.Now I’ve got 2 boxers that get confused with pits but I found that if people gave them a chance they’d find both breeds are very sweet but with boxers people are afraid of them due to size and under bit I deal with people not want to be around me when I’m in pet smart and it’s because people don’t understand that boxers are great with kids and people as stated in the akc books.
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I own 4 red-nosed pitbulls and I too have encountered these idiotic people. My dogs have never bitten anyone, but, due to all the press about them, people still want to treat them like killers. It’s disgusting to me. Once when my daughter and I were walking 2 of our dogs, one of my neighbors’ little dogs came running down their driveway UNLEASHED and attacked my big male dog. He had backed away as far as he could but we couldn’t get away. They called the dog warden, the cops etc and guess who got harassed??? Not my neighbors, but me!! Even though her dog was not on a leash….and we live instep village limits where there is definitely a leash law!! She didn’t even get a ticket for no leash!! So….my advice to you is….stay out of dog parks and continue to walk you dog in your neighborhood, regardless of who crosses the street or not! Because, in my experience, if anything happens, it’s gonna be your fault, just because your dog is a Pittie. Better safe than sorry. By the way, your dog is beautiful!!!
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people are stupid. years ago it was the Dobies, German Shepherds, now it’s our Pits. we can only change them through education. get him trained as a therapy dog to help do this. if you use him to visit hospital children, nursing home it helps educate through word of mouth.
another idea is try and contact others through social networks and form a club so they can get together – maybe take them all out into the country were they are safe from people interrupting their playtime.
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Hello, I once rescued a dog who was a Pit mix and when I took him to the local park ,I received mixed reactions. As you said, some people are very misinformed about the breed and choose to allow their ignorance and fear override logic. Anyway, one day at the park a person said to me that I shouldn’t bring the dog to the park because it will frighten others.
My answer: “Since you are the one who has the problem with my dog then I suggest YOU don’t come back to the park because, I intend to be here every day.”
Assert yourself my friend and stand your ground… and if people harass you remind them that there are laws against harassment.
Good luck to you and your beautiful, loyal companion. With blessings from MistyDay.
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It is a shame that some people believe that Pits are mean. Pits are not born mean it is there owners who raise them to be mean.I have a German Boxer she is bigger and more muscular than your American Boxer when we walk her people will cross to the other side of the street.She is not a mean dog at all loves are cat and another small dog we have.What I want to say is Pits are not born mean it is there owners that train them that way!!!!
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It was a choir but I found a doggy day care that will allow Pits and or Pit mixes to spend the day there and its just a few blocks done the street from our house, I only spent 2 days calling places, most of the places would hype their place up until the point where I mention hes a pit mix, then the story would change from it being a great place for him to hes not allowed here and a few even hung up on me after I mentioned it, everything seems to be a challenge all because of what he is, it was also a big process for me to find a place that would help me train him in basic commands, but finally after spending about a day looking I found a guy that only trains so called bully breeds and he even gave me a bit of a discount after I told him the struggles I had trying to get Rayden in to classes.
Rayden is a Parvo survivor, was born in a tool shed in New Mexico, rescued by a humane society in New Mexico along with his mom, dad and siblings, then at some point was picked up by the humane society of Fremont County where a friend of mine worked and knew I was wanting to get another dog, she sent me pics of him and I said if he survived I would happily give him a good home, well he and his 2 brothers survived (4 of them didn’t make it) so I made the 2 and a half hour drive to pick him up, this dog has been through hell but by the way he acts no one would ever know, him and my other 2 dogs are spoiled, well loved, and treated like they are my children. It would be nice if those that are so caught up surrounding the Pit Bull breeds could get their heads out of their butts and see what Pits are really about.
The First pic below is when the Humane Society of Fremont County first got him with full blown Parvo.
The second pic is of him and his two brothers that survived
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