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
Rocky Boxer Pitbull Mix (Bullboxer)
Rocky and Kasha
Rocky at Work with me on "Bring your dog to work day"
Kasha at the Dog Park playing with a great Dane
Kasha (Cane Corso Mastiff)
Rocky and Kasha just chillin
Rock Star
Rocky at work with me looking curiosuly to see who is out in the hallway.
Kasha just chillin.
Rocky playing with the mascott at the St. Paul Saints Game!
Rocky displaying a goofy face as only he can.
Kasha Showing off her puppy eyes! how can you resist.
Rocky (Pitbull Boxer Mix or Bullboxer) and Kasha (Cane Corso Mastiff)
Rocky's doing goofy faces again.
Most of the Photos were taken by my Girlfriend. You can view more of her work now on Facebook.
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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
I have yet to meet an aggressive “Pitbull”, that doesn’t mean there isn’t one out there. Of course there is some that are, but no more than any other breed of dog. To be honest, I have been bitten by smaller breeds and personally never have been any bigger breed dog, and I have never been bit by a Pitbull that I had in my care.
What is a Pitbull? From many searches on the Internet, you can find the answer to this. Basically a “Pitbull” by classification is a many breeds with certain characteristics that are similar, with like appearances and share similar root heritages. Most people referring to a “Pitbull” are referring to the American Pitbull Terrier, which is the only breed of dog with the reference Pitbull in its name. There are many different types of dogs that are similar to this breed and easily mistaken as a “Pitbull”.
American Staffordshire Terrier (Otherwise known as an Amstaff) is one. Amstaffs are usually stockier and have shorter legs compared to the APBT, but have wide shoulders and usually are muscular in the chest with a distinct Chest. Amstaffs are typically heavier then the American Pitbull Terrier. The APBT weighs anywhere from 35-65lbs where and Amstaff can tip the scales closer to 50-100lbs, which is probably the most defining characteristic. Most people who say they have a Pitbull and it weighs 85lbs usually mean they don’t have a Pitbull, but more than likely and Amstaff or a Staffordshire Bull Terrier.
Staffordshire Bull Terriers is very similar to both breeds also, but are much smaller in stature, usually tipping the scales around 25-40 lbs. So they are much smaller, they also have shorter legs and bases are closer to the ground.
What all these guys do share, is the blocky head, big jaws and muscular physique, which is why they do come off intimidating to some. But what most people do not realize is that these dogs are working dogs, loyal, eager to please whoever they are around. People tend to believe what they hear, and for pitties as of late it’s all bad press, and it’s really too bad. I have heard it all from people “Aren’t you afraid it’s going to rip your face off?” – Stupid crap like that, ignorance just speaks out so much in comments like that, it makes me upset and feel sorry for those people.
If you are looking for a mellow, low energy dog that never moves, these dogs are not for you, if you are looking for a working dog, energetic, willing to please its owner no matter what, anxious to learn, then this is the dog for you. I personally love these dogs for what they are, not what people think they are.
There’s my rant for the day. J
Here’s some pictures off of the internet of different bully breeds.
American Pitbull Terrier (APBT)
American Pitbull Terrier (APBT)
American Staffordshire Terrier (Amstaff)
American Staffordshire Terrier (Amstaff)
Staffordshire Bull Terrier
Staffordshire Bull Terrier
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
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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