Holy Shit! OMFG! PIT BULL ALERT!

[jazzimov]

I was just cleaning up in the kitchen, and I accidentally dropped some chicken bones on the floor! Not just a few leg or thigh bones - but a full breast-bone with rib-bones and lots of non-dog friendly bones.

My dog, which is a pit-bull mix, immediately scarfed up this potentially dog-fatal chicken-bone matrix and ran back to his favorite place (my bedroom) to consume and potentially choke on these bones!

I went back to take the chicken-bones away from him. But he is a pitbull! He is going to attack me and chew my face off!

As I walk down the hall, I yell "NO". Unlike other breeds I've owned, he doesn't turn away. He allows me to grab the end of the chicken bones sticking out of his mouth.

And now for the really scary part - he didn't really want to let go of the bones, so I had to open his mouth. I must be really strong, because I've heard that the bite pressure of pit-bulls is just enormous!

Or maybe I just got lucky, because he let go. He then just stood there and looked at me, his whole body language just asking me "what?"

I gave him one of his regular treats, which he seemed happy to get - and then let him go outside so he could guard the deck, like he loves to do.

Whoo! From reading so many posts here on DU about the dangers of Pit Bulls, it seems to me I must have avoided a MAJOR problem.

In the real world, meh. Just another day with a typical dog.

[BainsBane]

1. I can pull anything out of my dog's mouth

She won't bite, but if your case I'd just let the dog eat the bones. I don't give her chicken bones, but she has gotten into them on occasion and nothing happened.

[Ed Suspicious]

2. My pit is not allowed to take food he isn't given. We've been doing this ritual for nine years.

He will sit in a puddle of his own drool until me, my wife, or my kids say "take it." I can see in my minds eye exactly the look your dog was giving you. They really are a different kind of dog. Smart as a whip and obedient as all get out if handled properly.

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Good Puppy!

My puppy has suddenly developed an obsession with baby bunnies, after finding a lawnmowing casualty in the back yard. I believe that she is convinced that there are thousands of baby bunnies running around underground, and she has methodically investigated every square inch of the yard with her nose.

Typical dog day.

[notadmblnd]

4. just imagine the danger people like us are in every day.

Mine sleeps in bed with me, nose to nose. I'm certain that one day I'll wake up with no face.

[Sedona]

5. One almost bit my hand off last week

the dozen stitches came out a few hours ago.

All I did was try to walk past her in the parking lot of my office. Yes, she was on a leash.

[Orrex]

13. Did you test its DNA?

Otherwise you're going to piss people off if you dare to tell people that it was a pit bull.


Sorry about your hand.

[jazzimov]

6. OMG! I hear him barking!

at something in the woods after everyone had gone to bed> I called his name, and then silence until I heard him coming up the stairs at a run.

Everyone tells me he's a mean dog. Well, except for those folks who actually made friends with him.

But he's a Pit Bull, so according to a lot of people here he must be killed.

I can't do it.

[Egalitarian Thug]

7. OMG!!1! You narrowly averted a mass killing through the grace of the invisible sky god!

Just an FYI. Dog sized dogs can handle uncooked chicken bones with virtually no risk at all.

We've fed hundreds of dogs thousands of raw chickens without a single incident, ever. They are built to live on other animals.

[Ed Suspicious]

8. Cooked bones become more brittle and dangerous. I think that's what he's referring to.

[Egalitarian Thug]

9. I think so, too. n/t

[bunnies]

10. Bored today?

Cool story, bro,

[apples and oranges]

11. As long as you don't have children over

and you tie him up when he's outside, it should be fine.

In other words, as long as you're the only person at risk of getting mauled or killed, then it's your choice.

[ErikJ]

12. My miniature poodle/dachsund just drops bones on command.

He comes running to me with bones in his mouth because I dont leash him and I say DROP IT and he drops it. Smart boy.