Hounds of war: Let`s see `em!

[barnetmill]

I think it is a Pit albeit a non game bred line. A lot of folks seem to breed the heavy bones, heavy head low slung style and they would get worked fighting I would guess. More of a pet than a fighting line. Definitely has more muzzle than most bulldog breeds

In possible support of pit mixture are the shorter legs for the adopted dog, but the Alapahas do have pit in their background. It could turn out to be an american bulldog also. People do like to mix in pit bulls with bulldogs and also with cur dogs and just about anything else.
The american pit bull terrier is a super dog relative to performance.

[barnetmill]

From a recent facebook discussion

My wife helps keep Mick nice and clean, white black and shiny.But most days,at one time or another Mick looks like he had a lot of fun and is pretty much brown all over.

Mick is in Arizona where it is dusty
Mick just after a bath

Mick 2 minutes after the bath


So we discussed how to keep your dogs clean

yup. we bathe ours and they immediatelt go roll in the dirt'

Me

Never bathe mine. They roll in wet dewy grass for a bath, lol. They seem healthy relative to their skin.

I let Ginger in the house a little while ago and at first I thought it is was clotted blood on her ears and neck. It is pine sap and that is harder to clean off for sure.

WD40 works great! Safe too.

Me

Coming to think of it Ballistol intended for metal surfaces was used for applications to the skin. "Originally invented for military use it became a household word in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Millions of users have experimented with BALLISTOL and found new surprising applications for it, some of which reach into the field of veterinary and even human medicine. In the United States the law prohibits a seller to.."

ballistol - PTG

I use WD 40 for everything. Cleans kitchen sink, stove and oven easily and new looking. I buy it by the gallon.

[barnetmill]

No legend to the picture. Sad little boy and likely a dead dog.

[barnetmill]

These two are half brother-sister with the bloody one at close to 5.5 yrs and the pup laying on ground is almost a year. They like to rough house and that is how the tip of WEB Ginger's got a cut where Patch accidentally nipped her ear. when ever they are together they want to do mock combat. Patch's teeth lock differently than White English Bulldog Ginger's with his front teeth being a lot tighter. The incisors of his upper jaw last time I looked met tight just in front of the lowers. His mother is the same way and when she was s pup she slit Ginger's ear in exactly the same way. Memphis the mother of patch and Ginger's cousin does not like mock combat, but her cousin Ginger and son Patch really do and if you turn your back for moment that is what they do.
The injury is superficial and likely neither dog hardly noted it happening.
The dogs are wearing two collars because if the tag is left on the ring of the bigger collar when rough housing the tag gets ripped off. So I put a second collar on those numbskulls that that has a smaller D-ring and the bigger collar sort of protect that tag.

[emtdaddy1980]

Wife and kids are visiting her sister who owns a small farm in KY. A little while ago I recieved this picture....... Aparently I now own an 8wk old female Great Pyranese named Fiona. Anyone here own one and have any tips? When I worked in veterinary surgery we had VERY few of them as patients...which leads me to think they are either pretty healthy or rare in this area.

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[Papa]

I once rounded up three of them after they dug their way under a fence, loped down about a mile to where the river runs close to the road, and then had a little swim. Trotting down the middle of the road, heading home after their dip, they were tying up traffic and giving the snowflakes heart attacks. I told them to get into the back of the squad and the two males did. The female--undoubtedly the alpha and the ringleader of this jailbreak, finally got in after a lot of negotiation. The combined weight of about 500 pounds of dog in the back of a Crown Vic meant I had to sit up to see over the hood. And they were muddy and stank to high heaven.
So:
1. They're smart.
2. They're diggers
3. They'll run
4. They like to swim-at least these did
5. Despite their size, they are not aggressive.

I like them.

P.S.: Tags had the owner's address, so they went home, not to dog jail, and I closed up the escape route with cinder blocks and rocks.

[barnetmill]

Wife and kids are visiting her sister who owns a small farm in KY. A little while ago I recieved this picture....... Aparently I now own an 8wk old female Great Pyranese named Fiona. Anyone here own one and have any tips? When I worked in veterinary surgery we had VERY few of them as patients...which leads me to think they are either pretty healthy or rare in this area.

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Farmers in many areas are running great Pyrenees dogs for livestock protection dogs and general use on the farm. I have never heard anything bad about their health. the only thing even slightly negative is that they are not able to deal with larger northern wolves on their own. Ranchers have been running multiple dogs to deal with the imported northern canadian wolves that have been released in our western states to restore the ecological balance. They really need those huge central asian dogs for dealing with the larger northern wolves.

[ErikRN]

GP are great with sheep and goats. The ones I know like cold weather. Watch for hip issues as they age.

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[Bob F.]

Years ago a Dr. back home had a huge white powder puff. Story is someone came to visit with a little yapper, maybe a small poodle. It kept harassing the GP who was lying quietly in the middle of the floor. Finally the GP had had enough and simply snatched the yapper and flipped it against the wall over the couch. It slid down the wall and refused to come out until its owner took it home. Cute story anyway.

[callmebubba]

Years ago a Dr. back home had a huge white powder puff. Story is someone came to visit with a little yapper, maybe a small poodle. It kept harassing the GP who was lying quietly in the middle of the floor. Finally the GP had had enough and simply snatched the yapper and flipped it against the wall over the couch. It slid down the wall and refused to come out until its owner took it home. Cute story anyway.

My childhood neighbors had a GP mut and when we bred our lab with theirs that exactly what he did with the puppies. Once they were big enough to be playful they’d follow him around and when one would cross the line he’d simply toss them. It happened fast but it never seemed overly aggressive. Just throw them out in the grass and go about his business.