Paul,
You are wrong, I have been around "
fast lane " gamebred pitbulls my whole life. They belive it or not make the best house pets, because, they were bred to have a good nature of humans so that come match night they could be handled by complete strangers during the pre match washings, and by the ref for weighing. That is why I don't feel Pitbulls are cut out for
competition bitework. Mostly because they don't have the genetics for the civilness towards humans, not like they do towards animals. I believe the aggression they have towards other animals and dogs, is high fight drive and prey drive, but I don't see that carrying over to humans on a large enough scale to say they can make good protection dogs. With that said, I have one that I trained in protection work, and he is
Extremely civil, though he has an on/off switch, and when I say friend, he will lick you lips off, LOL. He my friend is about 1/50 IMO. Example, I knew a guy who had 45 pitbulls, all with a linage you could read about in SDJ or AGDT in any edition. He had them staked to the ground on 10' heavy chains because in a kennel they just eat out and get to each other, a thick collar, thick (not ridiculas like you sometimes see) chain, Heavy snap links definatly work better for these dogs even though that is not the prefered method of containment for a dog, with
true gamebred dogs it's a must. He then had to build kennels around his still chained dogs, fence off some acreage and buy a GSD to patrol the inside of the fenceline because his dogs were constantly being stolen by strangers walking right up to the dogs, hooking up a leash and walking off with them. How many protection breeds do you know where people have to resort to this. History has shown that gamebred dogs actually end up making great housepets. CH Jeep, CH Redboy, Eli, GRCH Yellow, GRCH 35, GRCH Mayday, His son GRCH Lukane, the list goes on and on, and my Boudreaux's Eli pitbull is the perfect house pet. He maybe young, not sure of age, pitbulls don't start to loose their childishness until about 3, you just have to work with him, bring him in and let him live in the crate, take him out for supervised play and then back in the crate when you are done playing. You will see them learn real fast the rules of the house. If he starts to get to crazy in the house with his horse play, put him outside for a bit then bring him back in, they learn quickly what to do to stay inside. As for OB I find them just like any other dog, maybe better, because of their prey drive. Let him pick a toy, and just work him in OB. Try first without any distractions, then build up to that if he is not ready for it yet, I would suggest a prong collar if you don't already have one, I have seen this work better than an E-collar on a few pitbulls. Not sure if this is true or not but I read an article before that said a Dr something did an examination and found Pitbulls to have almost 20% less nerve endings than other breeds, giving them a higher pain tolerance. If that is true, you would need the pressure of a prong collar and the direct link that "
your master" is correcting you right now. One last big part and I hope I don't insult your intelligence is, you have to establish your dominance over them. Male Pitbulls, will try you often throughout their lifetime, you must constantly stay and remind them constantly you are the Alpha, and if they get crazy their OMEGA, lol. Good luck with the bulldog. ~Chris Duhon
COL Nathan R. Jessup for President
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