-=> RICHARD WEBB wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RW> HI Wayne,

 RW> On Fri 2038-Apr-02 21:05, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140) wrote to RICHARD
 RW> WEBB:

 WC> It's only one anecdotal account but My Spanky was on both Heart
 WC> Guard Plus and Frontline for his entire life.

 RW> THey're new to me with Schotze, our Rottie, 3 years old.  I
 RW> think we had Roxy our old rottie on them after we got her,
 RW> but back in the '80's I had my Buddy on heartworm biscuits,
 RW> administered daily.

 WC> British Staffordshire Bull Terrier ( pit bull) and the sweetest guy
 WC> you'd ever meet.


 RW> Pits often have an undeserved reputation, as do ROttweilers. oURs is
 RW> very loving, and when Kathy's ill she's Kathy's
 RW> "call the nurse" bell, nurse being me .  I can
be in here working,
 RW> and if mama has a problem Schotze comes to get me.

 WC> I also fed him raw turkey necks as treats thawing them overnight and
 WC> thus he never
 WC> required a teeth cleaning.

 RW> SHe gets good beef bones.  RAw poultry I guess they could
 RW> have, cooked no way because of what it does to the bones.


I kept red meat away from Spanky due to the fact it's supposed to make
them aggressive.

Thawed raw turkey necks OTOH never presented a problem and boy
did that critter chow down on them!

You're right, you can't cook them as the bone or catilage hardens
and the dog's throat might become injured but as I say dogs do not
get slaminella

One day I was walking Spanky off lead as per usual when we came across a mother
and her son.

She'd just struck her son a good one upside the face,
Spanky sat, bared his teeth and gave an impressive snarl just
as she had her arm drawn back to strike the child again.

The woman froze in shock and threatened to call the police to which
I replied go ahead I'll report your child abuse.

I lavished praise on Spanky for his good judgement afterwords.

I had a pit bull that didn't like violence, kinda weird in a way.

He often showed similarly good judgement in other situations however
once again it was weird watching him get his snout torn apart by a feral
cat that lived under the house as he wagged his tail he was so friendly.

Outside of that woman striking her child I'd never seen him even growl
before or since.

Sure in the hands of irresponsible owners such a breed can be highly
dangerous as far as I could tell they're nearly invulnerable to pain and
injury.

One time my landlord who was terrified of the dog slammed
the door of his Ford F-150 on Spanky's snout as he attempted to climb in
to go for a ride.

Jim felt so bad about it he called the dog over and petted him for
the first time ever and he was over his fear of that animal 
in that moment. 

I had one neighbor that would take the dog for a ride in his car just
because Spanky loved it so much.

Not so much a watch dog as I often said he'd be the easiest dog in the
world to steal, just open a car door and in he'd hop.

Boy do I ever miss the guy.

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