Stats: 3 yo male. blue nose. 75 lbs. submissive. mellow. gentle giant. low confidence. recovering from severe separation anxiety. very bonded to humans/dogs. neutered. Background: Rescued my boy one year ago. He was two at the time. It was obvious he had never lived in a home. I trained him on...

10 months ago my boyfriend and I rescued an 11 month old male pit. The past few months he has gone from sleeping during the night in both his cage and in the bedroom with no accidents to peeing in his cage and on the bedroom floor. We think he has some separation anxiety because he gets super...

Hello! I adopted a pit 3 months ago (M, neutered, 2yo, 75lbs). He's just perfect, minus separation anxiety. It's been a challenge, but with training and patience things are moving along. He's now able to stay home for a full day alone (AM + PM walk, plus noon dogwalker). He doesn't love it but...

Hello. I rescued a 60 lb pit mix from the humane society about 3 or so months ago. He is fixed and about 2 years old. He was found roaming around a local county. His name is Buddy. He is the sweetest puppy, and is the most cuddly one in the house. I had 3 other dogs in the house before we...

This puppy just showed up under our car port one cold, rainy day two months ago and wouldn't leave. He was skinny, thirsty and shivering. His nose was scruffed up and he was a bit lethargic for a puppy. My kids and wife loved him immediately and wanted to keep him. We fed him and gave him water...

He's got a lot of growing to do. And housebreaking is definitely a chore! LOL Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

are all rescue pits that have no papers, considered mutts? my dog looks very much like a red rednose pit. she isn't super heavy however, less than 50 lbs. right now she is about 44 lbs. she is over a year old. I don't care if she is a mutt or not, just curious as to what to call her breed...

I rescued a 2 year old Pit Bull about 7 weeks ago. Recently she is sticking to family members like glue. Yesterday when I fed her she stopped eating when I left the kitchen and followed me. I go from one room to the next and she follows me As long as someone is in the same room as her she is...

I know this is going to sound a little crazy, but I am looking for some opinions on this situation: Male Pit, owned by same people since he was 12 weeks old. Owner says he is gentle, loving and never had a problem with him. Female Rescue Pit (?) also gentle and loving. The two dogs have...

I recently finished a very difficult court case. My therapist on the case diagnosed me with ptsd and recommended I get an emotional support animal. I decided to do so and that's how I found Doc ( super fitting name). He is a 2 yr old red nosed pit. He is a big lover and I just fell in love. When...

Hi all, just rescued a pitbull from a shelter. I believe he was abused/beaten in the past. He is about 3 years old and prob 60 lbs of ripped looking blue muscle. Perfect look I wanted in a pit and his temperment seemed very good. He was athletic, calm, excited when playing and walked great on a...

I recently rescued a gorgeous white pit from a shelter. He gets along wonderfully with our cats and my little Maltese and any other animal or person he comes in contact with.....except.... Our Australian Shepherd. They are getting better, and can be around each other for a few minutes now, but...

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Hi I'm happy I found this forum. I have so many questions about my new pup, Ivy. The woman I bought her from said that she gave her her own vaccinations??? Idk what that means and the more we spoke the more confused I became. What type of vaccines if any are recommended? Also she said something...

I just recently adopted a 4 year old fixed female.. she was found a stray, at the shelter for 9 months. She had at least one liter before she was fixed.. every night between 5-6 she starts to aggressively mount me.. it's at the same time every night. I've tried everything from scolding her...

Hey everyone I'm new to the forum. I just adopted a 6 month old pitbull mix from my local shelter. I have a few questions Regarding crate training. She has been doing great overnight. She would whine for about a minute then go to bed. I take her out right when I wake up when I go to work and...

I have a 4 year old Blue nosed APBT I rescued about a year ago with a real terrible past. Abandoned in the streets, used as a fighting dog, and stabbed 7 times. Obviously I can't entirely blame him for being scared of the vet prodding around him with metal instruments when he was stabbed 7...

Hi All, Just wanted to say thank you for this site and allowing me to search the forums for some of the answers to questions I had about our newest addition. Got Blanca two weeks ago and she is a sweetheart. Have had a few issues but are settling down quickly... 1. She dug under the fence...

Hi! I'm new to this forum. I joined because our oldest pup, Desoto is mixed with Shar Pei (from what the vets say) and CONSTANTLY has allergies...to everything. His medical file is thicker than mine! We don't know exaclty what he is allergic to, we've never paid for all the testing. We do have...