We were out at Petsmart last Saturday in Woodbury for the Wags and Whiskers Adoption day there. We brought Phoebe out to get her some exposure. Unfortunately she is still a little skiddish with new people and it makes it hard for people to get to know her. We’ll work on it and hopefully find her a forever home soon.
Here’s a couple of photos from the day. 
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Phoebe is our newest foster pup that is looking for a forever home. She’s roughly 8-9 months old and still very puppyish. She is potty trained but still has accidents once in awhile, but for the most part she is pretty good. Phoebe is a Pitbull Mix, not sure what she is mixed with, but she is pretty tiny, around 30 lbs and probably not going to get much bigger.
She seemed to probably have a rough puppyhood from the way she acts, not sure on the backstory, but she is very skiddish around guys. We are working with her and she is doing much better in the 2 weeks she has been with us thus far. If you are interested in meeting Phoebe or looking for another resucue pup please contact Wags and Whiskers of MN at wwww.wagsmn.com
Hello World. lol
It’s been awhile since i have posted a blog post, been super busy with Riley’s Baseball and other things, seems like there isn’t much time for anything else these days.
Walk for Animals this year wasn’t that great, it was cold, rainy and pretty miserable. We did raise $500 for the event so that was awesome and thanks to those who donated. We did walk the whole 5 miles, all 6 of us. Cisco, Kasha, Rocky, Cassidy, Riley and I.
Riley’s baseball is wrapping up. He made Majors this year which was nice, he made some improvements and seems to be a lot more motivated then he was in the beginning of the year. I wish he could play more, but the League he is in only allows 9 manned teams with Subs, and now he is a sub which really is kind of a shitty deal, but what can you do, I told him if he didn’t want to sub he would have to step it up on the playing field. He seems like he enjoyed it for the most part. Hopefully he gets to bring home a trophy this year, that would be awesome.
Haven’t got to ride as much this summer due to schedule and weather. What a miserable spring/summer so far, storms and rain seem to be the theme these days. Hopefully get some riding in before the season ends.
Done a lot of Dog Park days with the dogs this spring, more then I have in the past. Here’s a Video of Rocky and Kasha Playing at Rice Creek Park.
Here’s one with Rocky(boxer/pitbull) and Kasha(Cane Corso) at Cassidy’s Parents place recently. Playing and having a good time with each other.
Riley got his first sportbike. it’s a Mini Pocket Bike. Thanks to the Francos, he enjoys it a lot.
Some Video of him Riding it.
I’ll try and post up some more, but that’s all i have for now. Thanks for reading.
-JW
I’ll be participating in the walk for Animals on April 30th, 2011 Golden Valley MN. This will be my first time doing the walk. For those that don’t know what it is, “The Walk for Animals is your opportunity to help the 35,000 companion animals that Animal Humane Society will care for this year. Make no bones about it, these animals need your help. Begin raising pledges now and get ready for the best stand-up-on-your-hind-legs-and-bark event of the year!”
We are going to bring the three pups with us, Rocky, Cisco(unless he is adopted to his forever home by then) and Kasha. Should be fun. If you would like to help sponsor us for the walk that would be awesome. Here’s a link where you can donate Click Here to Donate
I’ll definetly post pictures of when we go.
Thank you.
-JW
Here’s some pics of our dogs we will be bringing.
Kasha our Cane Corso
Cisco He's our Foster Pitbull Still looking for his forever home.
Rocky, Pitbull Boxer Mix
So it’s been awhile since I have posted a blog, to be honest I have been so caught up with everything going on lately that I haven’t even had the time to sit down and write anything. Anyways, so I am just going on a random spree here, and not even sure what to write about at this point.
I guess I’ll start with my recent boom in web traffic hits to my site. Those of you familiar with WordPress.com, knows that in the dashboard there’s a built in statistics report. It’s actually pretty cool, easy to read. I started this blog last January and it started off as a few hits here and there. I averaged maybe around 300-600 hits a month. Which is fine, I didn’t create this blog for mainstream, but more for an outlet for me. So I have noticed a trend lately on the stats. One day last week I actually had 798 hits on one day. It’s the big spike on the first chart below.
Daily Stats from mid November 2010 to December 22nd 2010.
Below is statistics on my site just for the one blog post since I posted it last February.
Am I really that interesting? Probably not, it’s more based on one article I blogged about (Click here to see the blog). Animal Planets awesome show “Pitbulls and Parolees”. The new season kicked off and I started getting a lot more hits on my site.
If you look at the comments on that blog, you’ll notice that people obviously did not read the blog and assumed my site is related to Villalobos Rescue (aka Pitbulls and Parolees), which I am not at all, just like the show, admirers of what they do and like one thing I saw on their site enough to write about it once. I did just change the title of the blog to hopefully divert some of those who think i am affiliated with them.
I just thought that was funny and wanted to share. If you haven’t seen the show, I like it a lot, it’s an awesome show about pitbulls and the drama that goes with running a rescue with Parolees. http://animal.discovery.com/tv/pitbulls-and-parolees/
If you want to check out Villalobos official website: http://www.vrcpitbull.com/home.htm
Happy Holidays to everyone ,
Thanks,
JW
Bless the Bullys is happy to announce that October 23, 2010 has been designated as this year’s National Pit Bull Awareness Day! Read More…
I got Rock Star (AKA Rocky), my Boxer Pitbull Mix about a year and half ago now. He was about 6-7 months old when we got him. I fostered him for about a month or two before just saying screw and adopted him outright. He was an awesome dog right off the bat, and I felt like he just belonged in the house with me and my son. I am not sure the exact birthdate, but Riley and I decided we would just make it Ocotber, since it was close to what we figured it would be. So my little howling mutt is now 2 years old, an adult pitbull boxer mix, nothing but good things from him and couldn’t have asked for a better companion, friend, and family member then this guy. Happy Birthday Rocky.
Here’s his Birthday Present. Looks gross, but he loved every minute of it.
I just picked up this little guy the other day for Wags and Whiskers of Minnesota. I am a temp foster for Wags and Whiskers, i basically only foster pitbulls because I think they need the most attention right now with all the bad publicity these guys get. I am not going to get into all the hoopla about it on this post, you can search the internet all you want and find all the good and bad information you want on pitbulls. Pitbulls are like any other dog, they have their tendancies just as any other breed does, but from my experience that these very active dogs need positive environments and training. Their aptitude to please their owners and people in general is amazing to me, and with a little training, they make awesome family dogs.
Cisco is a great dog, he’s a 1+ year old Brindle American Pitbull Terrier well socialized with other dogs and does well with cats and children. I am almost tempted to keep him myself to be honest, but I’ll have to keep myself in check. He is very playful, if you love playing ball with a dog, this dog is definetly for you. He constantly wants a ball or toy in his mouth and is always happy all the time it seems. He’s not a big dog, he’s probably right around 40 lbs and not going to get much bigger than that. If you are interested in adopting Cisco, please contact Wags and Whiskers at wagsmn@gmail.com or fill out an adoption form here Click Here to Fill out Adoption Form.
Visit Wags and Whiskers website: wagsmn.com
Here’s some pics. I’ll post some more when I get a chance to take some
Random thought #1
It’s been a busy few weeks, Riley started his football season, and work has been crazy busy with projects and deadlines, also I started training this week for a possible MMA fight in the future. I have been thinking about doing a full contact fight for some time now, and figure it’s now or never. I have no aspirations of trying to be a career UFC fighter; I would just like to take my shot at some real fights and see where I stand. I am not jumping into this blind of course, I have committed to working out with some people who will help me train in their respected specialties. I do have over 10 years of Martial Arts experience, plus some other training I had when I was younger, golden gloves boxing for a little bit and of course high school wrestling. I’ll probably post more once I get into it more. J
Random thought #2
My brain feels like its on cruise control lately. Sometimes I get so overwhelmed with things I get sort of spacey and just go through the motions without and any real emotion. Maybe it’s the weather change, it’s been cold here lately and kind of depressing as fall approaches. Maybe it’s because I am stuck in MN and there are very few things that excite me anymore here. If I could move to another state or even country I more than likely would.
Random thought #3
So with Riley’s football consuming 4 out 7 days, it’s pretty hard to do much else. And yes, that’s 4 days of time when I am not working, meaning my days fill up with work and his activities and usually not home till about 8:30 at night or later. My house is a disaster area lately; I have neither the time nor the energy to even do my laundry on a regular basis let alone clean the rest of the house. It ends up being whatever I need that day is what will go in the wash. It’s crazy.
I did get to hangout with Rocky all day last Sunday, which I haven’t had much time to do. I took him to with me everywhere I went, and he even got to jump on a trampoline that day, he seems to like those a lot.
He is seriously the best dog, not even joking around. He’s not perfect by any means, he will chew shit up in a minute given the opportunity, but as far as just being an awesome dog, he’s it. He listens well, never whines about anything, quiet, obedient(for the most part anyways), anyone who meets him usually loves him, and keeps me company when I want it most.
If you ever have the time to take care of dog, understand how to take care of a dog, I will strongly recommend adopting one. Make sure you pick the right one for you and yours, but it can be one of the most rewarding things for you and the dog. I am obviously more particular on pitbull breeds, but i also know what it’s like to misjudged, descriminated against, and just plain casted aside. I picked Rocky because of his calm demeanor, and the fact he’s just like me, he’s a mixed mut who just needed a chance to show how awesome he was.
Random thought #5
Well, with the summer wrapping to quick end, I am going to try and get some bike time in before it gets to cold out. I headed out to Wisconsin last Saturday to meet up with some other riders. We hit some twisty’s that whole day and got home to then headed back on the road again, I racked up around 500 miles of just messing time. By Sunday I was completely exhausted and soar, but definitely worth it. Coming on the 18th I am heading to Rockfalls Raceway in Wisconsin for the Sport Compact Race day with the Bike to see what it does in the quarter mile drag. I have some friends going that day too, so it should be a lot of fun.
Random thought #6
So I was told this week that i have time commitment issues. I’ll have to agree with that and disagree. I think I over commit my time to many things. I just never tell people why I can not do something or why I can’t be somewhere. I tend to commit to many things at once. I think my issue is not with commitment, but time management. I do forget things on a regular basis. I have a tendancy to take a lot in and naturallly somethings will get lost. I say yes to things that I want to do, or that sound good at that point in time. and if it’s not at that moment, then I’ll probably forget the whole conversation took place until someone or something reminds me what an ass I am for not going or doing something.
So yes, i have time management issues, not commitment issues. Now if it’s relationships? That’s a whole nother blog at a whole nother time 
Last Random thought of the day
Anyways, just completely random thoughts today, with me being spacey and all, I’ll have to find something this winter to peak my need for doing fun things I guess. Maybe Snowboarding? Or Snowmobiles? I hate the winter, so we’ll see. Hope everyone reading this blog isn’t as messed up as me. Or maybe your are..hrmm.. think about it.
-JW
I have read a lot of blogs lately, news articles and person to person conversations with people who either hate Pitbulls or Love them. Most posts or blogs that i see on Pitbulls are from people who hate them and seem to be only basing their opinions on stories they read on some news site, or saw something on a forum or blog, not really being based on actually knowing what they are talking about, solely based on someone elses perspective.
On the other side, you have people who try to convince others through comments on posts or whatever other outlets that Pitbulls are not to blame, it’s the owner. It seems almost impossible to try to argue two points of view when neither side will give in. Changing someone’s opinion on a particular point of view is almost impossible to sway. Once the mind is set on something, it takes a lot to change that.
I have recently found that just bringing my dog to places that others congregate at is the best way to change the view and assumptions that others might have for my dog when they see him initially. Yes, I know there have been many well documented dog attacks that involving pitbulls, and yes I know what they are used for when in the hands of dumb ass people. What I think people fail to realize is that there is so many dogs in a year that do bite someone severely that are not pitbulls, but when reading that a lab or a retriever bit someone it just doesn’t have the same stigma as using the word “Pit Bull Attack” in the media. You got to admit it grabs your attention.
I think that people like to argue, even if it’s something not worth arguing about. I think it’s irresponsible to single out any single group, whether we are talking about dogs or people, it’s just plain not right, and not moral. Whether you think it’s just a dog and it’s not inhumane to subject a breed of dog based on the actions of a few, or single out a group of people based on the actions of a few. Someone reading will probably bring up a point that more dog bites reported are pitbulls and pitbull mixes, and that may be true, but you also have the most numbers in terms of how many are in the US, and probably world due to the popularity of the Pitbull.
Even I read the comments and posts from Pitbull supporters who seem to have no idea what they are talking about. All that I really know is that people need to chill out a little bit on both sides and people should try to take in both sides logically and educationally versus stupid rhetoric and no substance bullshit that means nothing to no one.
I think the ban on Pitbulls is getting ridiculous and I think the posts that I have been reading are even more ridiculous as well, I read one earlier to kill where some guy had a picture of a pitbull with the description (“Kill Them all”). Really? Just because dogs are dogs and not humans, doesn’t mean discrimination and Racism doesn’t exist when referring to a dog. Being a minority my self and a lot of misconceptions even about me, I guess I just can relate to these hateful terms and comments. “Kill Them All” “Segregate them all” “Not Pitbulls only” “Separate Rights for Different Breeds”.
I am done with my rant for the day
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