Any ideas on what kind of mix this puppy is?

[Anonymous]

The pup that Op is looking at is only 10 weeks old. It sounds as though this pup has been well socialized with children and other dogs. She looks like a total baby to me and I would not hesitate to adopt her.

Hopefully she'll get a loving home with decent, responsible owners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The pup that Op is looking at is only 10 weeks old. It sounds as though this pup has been well socialized with children and other dogs. She looks like a total baby to me and I would not hesitate to adopt her.

Hopefully she'll get a loving home with decent, responsible owners.

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And OP- my sweet, gentile, loves everyone including cats and screaming children- looked a lot like that pup when she was little. Turns out she stayed much smaller than anyone expected and looks less like a pit as an adult than she did as a puppy. You never know with rescues but young ones are a blank slate in terms of personality so aggression isn’t there yet. With any dog training is important and a pit is no exception. They are actually easy to train in my experience- very eager to please you and intelligent. My only complaint with the pit mixes I’ve known over the years is they hog the bed lol! They hate the cold and love to sleep .

I think the one pictured may have some boxer in there? Very hard to know but it doesn’t matter really . I’ve had 2 other pit mixes and I identify them as a mix or boxer mix in one case, my other dog was (we think) a pit/ dachshund mix so he was a “dachshund mix”. I know some neighbor hoods have breed restrictions and if the has unclear lineage life is much easier if you keep pit out of their description.

[Anonymous]

Pitbull ghettomix

[Anonymous]

Definitely Pitt.

I adopted one from a shelter who was listed as a "lab mix" he was aggressive and not right in the head.

If shelters want us to adopt they should be truthful in their descriptions.

I currently have a dog that I adopted who is a wild card. I am keeping her. She is a jackass to other dogs but otherwise very sweet.

I've had a pure bred boy which I purchased and I have to say - there is a reason people do this. The shelters and rescue groups NEED TO STOP LYING to protect troublesome dogs and pawn them off on rubes like me. This is how trouble happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pitbull ghettomix

Please, enlighten us on what that means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The pup that Op is looking at is only 10 weeks old. It sounds as though this pup has been well socialized with children and other dogs. She looks like a total baby to me and I would not hesitate to adopt her.

Hopefully she'll get a loving home with decent, responsible owners.

+ 1

And OP- my sweet, gentile, loves everyone including cats and screaming children- looked a lot like that pup when she was little. Turns out she stayed much smaller than anyone expected and looks less like a pit as an adult than she did as a puppy. You never know with rescues but young ones are a blank slate in terms of personality so aggression isn’t there yet. With any dog training is important and a pit is no exception. They are actually easy to train in my experience- very eager to please you and intelligent. My only complaint with the pit mixes I’ve known over the years is they hog the bed lol! They hate the cold and love to sleep .

I think the one pictured may have some boxer in there? Very hard to know but it doesn’t matter really . I’ve had 2 other pit mixes and I identify them as a mix or boxer mix in one case, my other dog was (we think) a pit/ dachshund mix so he was a “dachshund mix”. I know some neighbor hoods have breed restrictions and if the has unclear lineage life is much easier if you keep pit out of their description.

You're participating in the lies that many shelters and owners now use: Saying "mix" to hide a dog's pit blood and emphasizing a dog's other breed. Well, at least you admit to it.

If you truly believed that pits are wonderful, safe dogs, you wouldn't brag anonymously here about your lies of omission but would go public in your neighborhood and work openly to change those breed restrictions you say are a bad idea. Yet you don't, because you want life to be easier for you.

OP: Mix is shorthand for pit bull, as this PP shows. Every one of these threads brings out the "pits are sweet--it's all about the owners/training" posts. If you really want the responsibility of owning a dog and having to worry whether it will have problems and having to feel you need to pretend it's not part pit bull--by all means, get the cute puppy.

First see today's Washington Post, though. Story about the child in Maryland and the family's dogs. Also search the name Christine Liquori--shelter volunteer killed in May by a pit mix while at the shelter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The pup that Op is looking at is only 10 weeks old. It sounds as though this pup has been well socialized with children and other dogs. She looks like a total baby to me and I would not hesitate to adopt her.

Hopefully she'll get a loving home with decent, responsible owners.

Shelters lie and say every dog has been socialized with kids and dogs. In reality they have no clue.

[Anonymous]

I agree with pp that there is some boxer. Pitt is too umbrella and some PPs are falling for that fallacy. Pitt usually means Staffordshire Terrier and this puppy doesn’t have a staffy head shape, eye shape (very distinctive small and inset) or body tone. I see more lanky long legged boxer type.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The pup that Op is looking at is only 10 weeks old. It sounds as though this pup has been well socialized with children and other dogs. She looks like a total baby to me and I would not hesitate to adopt her.

Hopefully she'll get a loving home with decent, responsible owners.

Shelters lie and say every dog has been socialized with kids and dogs. In reality they have no clue.

She's only 10 weeks old. She is still young enough to be socialized with kids, dogs, cats and whomever/whatever else you want to socialize her with. You can see in the pictures that her foster is doing a great job with her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The pup that Op is looking at is only 10 weeks old. It sounds as though this pup has been well socialized with children and other dogs. She looks like a total baby to me and I would not hesitate to adopt her.

Hopefully she'll get a loving home with decent, responsible owners.

Shelters lie and say every dog has been socialized with kids and dogs. In reality they have no clue.

Not in my area. They are often accused of being over cautious with their limitations and it keeping good dogs back. My dog was tiny cute and social but they listed other issues that kept him from quick adoption but I took a gamble and we never had those issues. I think ours does a standard set of tests on each dog and they either pass some things or don’t but it’s skewed in that it’s a shelter setting. I do understand their cautious approach though but they seem to be one of the more caring shelters and have a lot of money donated for great staff, facilities and care.

[Anonymous]

I have one of their foster pups right now. I agree they don't label them "pit bulls". I do think alot of the puppies they list as "retriever mix" are pits.

The puppy I am fostering for them doesn't have a mean bone in his body. A puppy that's been socialized from an early age is probably fine, including pitties. All dogs are individuals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with pp that there is some boxer. Pitt is too umbrella and some PPs are falling for that fallacy. Pitt usually means Staffordshire Terrier and this puppy doesn’t have a staffy head shape, eye shape (very distinctive small and inset) or body tone. I see more lanky long legged boxer type.

I see boxer in her also. She is going to be sturdy but lanky. She is already a little princess .

[Anonymous]

We have adopted three dogs each from different local rescues and all were completely honest about the dogs. We were even told certain dogs weren’t good fits for us (not good around kids, not good for apartment life when we were in one , etc

Rescues DO NOT want adopted dogs to return to them. . So they do their best to try to find good fits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with pp that there is some boxer. Pitt is too umbrella and some PPs are falling for that fallacy. Pitt usually means Staffordshire Terrier and this puppy doesn’t have a staffy head shape, eye shape (very distinctive small and inset) or body tone. I see more lanky long legged boxer type.

I see boxer in her also. She is going to be sturdy but lanky. She is already a little princess .

Yes, I see Boxer in her too. She looks like she'll grow up to be a princess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with pp that there is some boxer. Pitt is too umbrella and some PPs are falling for that fallacy. Pitt usually means Staffordshire Terrier and this puppy doesn’t have a staffy head shape, eye shape (very distinctive small and inset) or body tone. I see more lanky long legged boxer type.

I see boxer in her also. She is going to be sturdy but lanky. She is already a little princess .

Yes, I see Boxer in her too. She looks like she'll grow up to be a princess.

I meant to say grow up to be a Queen.