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Our mutt is part Staffy - confirmed via DNA tests. She is the sweetest thing you would ever want to meet. Great with people, doesn't even bark when someone comes to the door, terrible as a watch dog but so darned wiggly and precious. She sleeps in our bed and actually prances with a waggy tail to greet us when we come home. Did I say how sweet she is?

Pits are the sweetest, most loveable cuddle bugs - up until they bite.

We've had ours for 9 years, not even a growl. She might lick you to death. She is probably the least aggressive dog that I've ever met and I mean that quite sincerely. My Golden is much more of aw watchdog than she is - seriously.

We got her as a young puppy and socialized her carefully with kids, making sure that she wasn't overly rambunctious with them and vice versa. She doesn't much care for cats but I'm sure that if we had made the effort to socialize her with cats she'd be fine with them, too.

This is what every owner of a pit bull who mauls a child says, up until the minute their dog mutilates a child.

The dog needs to go back. Can you imagine how terrible you will feel if your child ends up blind, scarred, or missing a body part because of this dog?

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Anonymous wrote:
Our mutt is part Staffy - confirmed via DNA tests. She is the sweetest thing you would ever want to meet. Great with people, doesn't even bark when someone comes to the door, terrible as a watch dog but so darned wiggly and precious. She sleeps in our bed and actually prances with a waggy tail to greet us when we come home. Did I say how sweet she is?

Pits are the sweetest, most loveable cuddle bugs - up until they bite.

We've had ours for 9 years, not even a growl. She might lick you to death. She is probably the least aggressive dog that I've ever met and I mean that quite sincerely. My Golden is much more of aw watchdog than she is - seriously.

We got her as a young puppy and socialized her carefully with kids, making sure that she wasn't overly rambunctious with them and vice versa. She doesn't much care for cats but I'm sure that if we had made the effort to socialize her with cats she'd be fine with them, too.

Anonymous wrote:
Our mutt is part Staffy - confirmed via DNA tests. She is the sweetest thing you would ever want to meet. Great with people, doesn't even bark when someone comes to the door, terrible as a watch dog but so darned wiggly and precious. She sleeps in our bed and actually prances with a waggy tail to greet us when we come home. Did I say how sweet she is?

Pits are the sweetest, most loveable cuddle bugs - up until they bite.

This is why so many people avoid getting rescue dogs. So many of them are part pit and it’s not worth the risk to our family or liability. I saw a part pit attack a kid at a dog park and it was awful. As the child was carried off in an ambulance, the owner sat there dumbfounded swearing it was a gentle, sweet dog who had never been aggressive.

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Did I get tricked into rescuing a pit marked as a lab?

drum rolls: DNA results say you are a pit.

50% American Staffordshire Terrier
12.5 each of Chow Chow, Pug, American Coon Hound, and Staffordshire Bull Terrier.

Do I need to be worried for my young child and our cat? I think so-OP

Our mutt is part Staffy - confirmed via DNA tests. She is the sweetest thing you would ever want to meet. Great with people, doesn't even bark when someone comes to the door, terrible as a watch dog but so darned wiggly and precious. She sleeps in our bed and actually prances with a waggy tail to greet us when we come home. Did I say how sweet she is?

Anonymous wrote:

Did I get tricked into rescuing a pit marked as a lab?

drum rolls: DNA results say you are a pit.

50% American Staffordshire Terrier
12.5 each of Chow Chow, Pug, American Coon Hound, and Staffordshire Bull Terrier.

Do I need to be worried for my young child and our cat? I think so-OP

Give it back and get an older non pit dog if you are a city dweller and renter.

Lol of course it’s a pit. Do you really believe there are a bunch of full blooded viszlas in shelters?

Get a DNA kit!

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Anonymous wrote:Vet said pit. I don’t know what to do now. We rent so I can’t imagine renters insurance going for this and my kid loves him. I hate DC.

I agree with the vet.

Give the puppy back. There are non-pit puppies out there, at shelters and rescues. You just have to look for them.

My kid will be hurt broken. I am pretty sure this is a full blood red nose pit. Still hate DC.

Anonymous wrote:Vet said pit. I don’t know what to do now. We rent so I can’t imagine renters insurance going for this and my kid loves him. I hate DC.

I agree with the vet.

Give the puppy back. There are non-pit puppies out there, at shelters and rescues. You just have to look for them.

Just give back the dog.

Vet said pit. I don’t know what to do now. We rent so I can’t imagine renters insurance going for this and my kid loves him. I hate DC.

The thick base of the tail looks pretty lab-ish to me. The ears are lab-ish, the eyes are beautiful and resemble a Weimaraner/Lab cross that I had a long time ago, the coat does not resemble a lab in texture, but the coloring might be anything, (I have seen yellow labs that run towards that red coloration), the body does not, from what little I can see look stocky like a pit, but you will be better able to judge that in a few months. Are the feet webbed like a Lab ? I'd venture to say that there are probably many breeds in there and your pup is at least a couple of generations removed from any purebred ancestry. Also, she's adorable, very expressive face.

Looks like lab, some hound, maybe pit? Beautiful pup, whatever she is! She doesn’t scream pit to me and it could go either way, really. So hard to tell, especially as a puppy.