Hi all, I have an 8 week old Pit Bull pup. I love the little guy to death but he's a spritely fella and bites EVERYTHING he puts his mouth on. I made the MISTAKE and gave him a tap on his mouth one day when he was biting my feet. Since then he looks at my hand as the enemy. Also, when I'm bathing him he cries and thinks I'm punishing or harming him. He used to be very responsive, but now when I call him (and he sees my hands gesturing this) he's a bit apprehensive. How do I correct this and rebuild his confidence in me?
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Do not hit him in any way. You must be firm and consistent in saying NO when he does something wrong and he will learn to respect you, not fear you. You will have to cuddle him and pet him and play with him and maybe over time he will know that you will not hurt him again with your hands. BUT, he is still a baby. Play with him, but if he gets too rough and bites, tell him NO and simply quit playing, walk away from him and ignore him for a short time. That's what another dog would do and he would get the message that he can't play like that. 8 weeks is very young to be away from his mother, so you will have to act like his mother for a while and teach him what's right and wrong.
Thank you very much for your advice.I did actually go out and buy him some chew toys.So hopefully he sees the toys as a new challenge and stops biting my feet!lol.Thanks again.
I have a 16 month old, 75 pound red nose pit bull. We never hit her with our hand when she was a puppy, we always used a fly swatter. Now when you get the fly swatter to get a fly, she runs and hides. Sometimes we use the broom that is in the kitchen to get after her. The broom that is outside, she plays with it. She knows the difference between the 2 brooms. Pit Bulls can get very aggressive at times also. She started out being my husbands dog with him taking her to work everyday. He does construction work and sometimes if a person got to close to him she would go after that person. After hurricane Ivan, he left her home with me and she is very protective now. She has attacted 2 men already, tearing their pants off but not biting them. She went after my husband one day when he walked by me and popped me on my rear end with his hand. She doesn't like people in uniforms or people that drink!
Pit Bulls are becoming banned in Australia and I am a strong supporter of this ! Having worked as a veterinary nurse for years I saw many, when they were new and popular. Consistently they displayed trigger aggressiveness, just the slightest thing would set them off, they are extremely dominant and were highly resistant to discipline. The breed was developed to fight anything that moved, and fight to the death. I see nothing attractive about these dangerous bundles of liability and if your dog continues to show aggression towards you (your hands are part of you) and hold a grudge because you tried to put him back in his place, then for your own sake make a sensible decision about the dogs future before he mauls somebody (you included - frequently they have mauled their owners) and you end up injured or sued!!
Let me start out by saying your personal opinion & facts are totally different. Not every Pitbull is a killer!
I guess thats about them same thing as saying your a psychopath.
Im a Physician Assistant & every patient isnt the same. You shouldnt make such statements. Yes,just like anyone else each case is treated differently!
Let me start out by saying your personal opinion & facts are totally different. Not every Pitbull is a killer!
I guess thats about them same thing as saying your a psychopath.
Listen there is no bad dogs ok.there is only ignorant ppl any breed of dog can be mean and aggressive especially if there beat and treated poorly .I wonder how your parents tucked you up in the head
What was your point in expressing this on a pit bull advice Column?
Posts like this only display lack of education and spreads hate towards the breed. Stop it. Pits were nanny dogs before they were replaced by shepherds and taught to fight.
Second Pits are not first dog owner dogs. They are stubborn and yes they are also a powerful breed but it takes patience and understanding to properly hold the other end of the leash.
If you have a bias that's fine it's your opinion but dont spread your ignorance over the web that is how these dogs get into bad homes
you are a terrible person. you attack a breed over a few rough ones from rough trainers. majority of pits are good dogs. you just got to know how to handle them. you obviously dont
Physical punishment makes dogs mean. Train using positive reinforcement (there are tons of books on the subject). The puppy is probably teething and needs chew toys just like regular babies do.
I don't agree a ban should be done on a whole breed. They aren't all alike. How do you breed to produce a mean dog? You alter the DNA?? I've never seen a mean puppy in my life. Humans don't have that kind of creative power. They aren't born mean. They might have strong personalities in some cases. I have a friend who has 2 that are completely lazy spoiled dogs. They haven't a mean bone in their bodies. And I could come up with tons of other dogs. Just go on-line in search of people who have them. With training & love they can be just as good a dog as any other. The sub-humans who have dog fights have to abuse them to make them mean. That's how it's done.
I'm sorry Vic, but this breed has been responsible for so many injuries in Australia, that it is all that can be done to reduce the number and severity of dog attacks. I say severity because the pit bull has a jaw that can open almost 180 degrees and has immensely thick, strong cheek muscles. They are designed to latch onto something and not let it go. Imagine a childs head in a vice like grip from these dogs and if you can't, pop on down to a hospital casualty ward and ask to see some photos of the damage these dogs have done. There are so many nice breeds of dogs around to choose from, and the safety of other family memers and the public should be the first consideration for anybody choosing a dog. It is interesting to read of other peoples stories on the forum with Pit Bulls, they aren't all good (and I don't think that is a coincidence!)
Did you know 90 percent of dog attacks that are considered pitt bulls are nor even pitt mixes? They did a study on a number of shelters with dogs labeled pitbulls. They did blood tests and only like 1 percent were even related to pitbulls. I have raised many pits around my kids and nieces and nephews. The only dogs any of them were attacked by were chihuahuas and some little wire haired dog. My kids can pull ears tails sit on backs of my pit bulls and they just lay there. Maybe judge owners not breeds.
I also have a 9-week-old pit bull pup named cronus and i love him so so much. He also is having his biting moods. He has a chew bone but sometimes gets tired of it. He sometimes keep it behind a big bag leaning on the wall where he also keeps his ball.
i think if you take on the response abilty of owning a pit bull you should know how to handal apit bull
As with any type of dog(pitbulls aren't actually considered a breed being that they are bred from multiple different types of breeds bred together to get the desired outcome). I'm sure you remember when it was the doberman pincher and the Rottweiler and the German Shepard that had the same bad rep and those are actual true breeds. I was attacked by a street rescue but that was because I was trying to separate her my my other pit I had from a major fight and I didn't know what to do. So I took a 20lb dumbbell wrapped in a towel(so I wouldn't cause a whole lot of pain) and was hitting her as hard as I could it stunned her enough to get my rednose in the house. Then it began she lept at me and I don't remember anything after that. But I didn't know her temperament. So yes I had her put down but to this day I still love pitbulls. The 2 breeds that I'm scared of are chiauas and chows. Those 2 are more aggressive then any pit I've ever met.
My husband bought my pit bull last christmas.I wanted a boston terrier.So he comes home with this.I was kind of taken back thinking [what is everyone going to think].Am I able to handle raising a dog like this.WEll I can't begin to brag enough how good she is.I did alot of reading about the breed and I raised her firm but with alot of love. I never left her alone when she was a puppy.I socialized her with other animals ,she loves to make friends, I make other people touch her when she eats so she gets used to that.I had her trained at boot camp[I went away for 2 weeks and instead of leaving her in a kennel I had her trained at boot camp]positive reinforcement. The price to do so was only a little bit more but well worth it. The best advice I can give you is when ever my puppy would bit me all I had to do was scream no really loud and she let go, they hate when you yell at them. Be very loud to get her distracted then give her her toy to play.Ypo my all so cut a piece of a rag,towel and wet it and freeze it good luck""""
My pit bull is 7weeks I love her so much I have 7kids so we all love her so she has been doing he little biting lately for a couple of days now and today I had to run a lot of errands and take a couple of my children to the doctor and I left her home and after I got the kids from school she was so excited to see us but they had to go to practice she bite my foot so I put her back in the cage and she starts to cry normally we give in and get her but I was so in a rush I left and she was cry loud too so when we came back she was growling and mad what should I do because she wasnt like this before we all treat her like a baby
theres no bad dogs only owners ,ive been a proud owner for 11 great years never a bad moment , loves the kids lives on a farm with animals not a problem , all we need to do is love them & they will devote to you ,very intelligent animals, owners should be trained to keep these dogs.
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