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**gundos** · 05-18-2012, 08:09 PM

Hello-

I rescued a female pit bull around 2 months ago from an animal shelter. she is approx 1.5 years old. She is so wonderful/loving/calm. She is an attention whore. She loves every person she meets and wants to be around people at all times. Before I adopted her, I was totally aware of the fact that pit bulls are naturally dog aggressive. I never leave her unsupervised around dogs but I just get confused because she LOVES DOGS. I live in a city so we constantly see dogs on walks, and she always greets them by laying down or rolling over (showing total submission) and then gets up and sniffs them politely. The other day (while both dogs were on leash walking) she was greeting a smaller breed dog and this dog growled and tried to bite her in the face and Bailey (my pit) just backed away and didn't retaliate at all. My question is--do all pits eventually turn dog aggressive? or are there some that are totally friendly with dogs their whole lives? Our good friends have another female pit who is 4 years old and we let them play (supervised) and they did great, they were totally loving on one another and not playing rough or aggressive at all. Every time Bailey sees a dog while walking she gets totally excited and wants to say hello.

Thanks!

05-18-2012, 08:09 PM	#1
gundos Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 422 Senior Member	Do some pits never turn dog aggressive? Hello- I rescued a female pit bull around 2 months ago from an animal shelter. she is approx 1.5 years old. She is so wonderful/loving/calm. She is an attention whore. She loves every person she meets and wants to be around people at all times. Before I adopted her, I was totally aware of the fact that pit bulls are naturally dog aggressive. I never leave her unsupervised around dogs but I just get confused because she LOVES DOGS. I live in a city so we constantly see dogs on walks, and she always greets them by laying down or rolling over (showing total submission) and then gets up and sniffs them politely. The other day (while both dogs were on leash walking) she was greeting a smaller breed dog and this dog growled and tried to bite her in the face and Bailey (my pit) just backed away and didn't retaliate at all. My question is--do all pits eventually turn dog aggressive? or are there some that are totally friendly with dogs their whole lives? Our good friends have another female pit who is 4 years old and we let them play (supervised) and they did great, they were totally loving on one another and not playing rough or aggressive at all. Every time Bailey sees a dog while walking she gets totally excited and wants to say hello. Thanks!
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