Can You Dig It? Possibly the best chevy made.

0-60 in four city blocks (without stops)
Available options:
16 speed diesel
Handicapp Wheelchair Lift
Roof mounted strobe light
Emergency escape windows

And two bumper stickers:
"Hows my driving" and "This vehicle stops at all crosswalks and Train track crossings"

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That's the funniest pic I've seen in a while!!

 

Billy: Liked the pits. Use to have a black(with white)60lb bitch named Dolly--she had a BIG chest. Sweetest dog, still miss her after having to have her put down due to bad hip joints.

Dan

 

this is the Chevy (Geo) Ghetto Shuttle, this is what takes you to the Ghetto Bus.

 

wuuurrrd up,,, my bruthurssss

 

3 words - That is sad

 

hahahah. Dork pimpin!!!

Lightninrod,
Yeah Pumba the smaller one has had surgery ($4300) to fix a torn and deterated ACL. Pits have such a high tolerance for pain that by the time they show it its almost to late. Shes limping again which really sucks. My wife would never let me put her down. I dont think I could do it anyways. I save pinhead from be anestasized w/ a 9mm. His owner was a dope boy who fought him for $5000 and the title to a car. He won but he was really scared . Broken back leg, dislocated front leg, Holes all over. My ex girlfriend worked for a vet in Miami when we were dating and got it fixed for almost free. A couple hundred stitches and few splints and alot of antibiotics and he was good as new. (except for a few scares) my neighbors think that i did that to the dog and hate the fact that its even in the hood. All my dogs are good w/ kids and people. Other animals are a different story.

 

You bring a dog that you know was trained for and used for fighting around your kids? Did I read that right?

 

Was is key word there. Im actually friends and i use that word loosely with the ex-owner. He didnt raise it for fighting. it was a regular around the house dope dealers, i wanna look tough, dog. Just one day we were all drunk and he fought him out at the local late night drag strip for papers to cars and some money. Some fat Big pun looking ************ was out there with this dog named Lowrider (the dog looked like it didnt have legs) and was talking **** and it happened. I saved him from getting blown away and becoming fish food.
Dont think that just because there pitbulls there dangerous. Everything is Dangerous to an extant. My parents have 2 standard poodles(the big ones) that are meaner then Pinhead or Pumba (especially pumba). All dogs will attack when they have no other choice. Some are just bred and raised to be more aggressive then others. Ive been biten on the face and had reconstructive surgery from another friends Rotty that turned on me because someone acted like they were gonna kick it. Was i pissed at the dog? NO. Did I run inside a grab a big *** kitchen knife a chase the idiot around who tried to kick him (while bleeding like a gutted hog)? YES. Im real sensitive when it comes to my dogs. Dont get me started. Why do you think I left Miami? Because they said Id have to put my dogs down if i stayed. Screw That!!!

 

Hey, I love the canines too, but if he/she is suffering enough then putting 'em down might be the kindest thing you can do. Like what I read at the vet "When I get too old and can no longer bring you the joy I once did, then I want you to gently put me out of my pain. For only you are the one that I can bestow that honor upon. And remember, I have lived a full life knowing that I brought you, my master, some happiness."
I was at the vet with my girl bulldog, who at the time was dying inside. We didn't know the reason yet, but reading that just tore me up. Now I still have the male and I hope I can come home one day and find him laying comfortably in his favorite spot, asleep for the last time. I don't want to watch him die and I don't want to play God. He's 11 and he's OK so far, but his age is really showing.
I'm like you-I'd shoot someone for hurting my dogs. They are my kids. After my first divorce with no kids, I figured I would get my stuff cut. Marriage #3 now. With her dopey kids.

 

You don't train well-bred pits to fight; it is instinctive and natural. They(like many of us Lightning owners, when it comes to trucks ) know they are the predominate animal and should another dog not acknowledge(through meekness, etc.) this, a pit will dominate him one way or the other. Having said that, a well-bred(along with a 'normal' human owner) pit adores his human 'family' and many have given their lives for their owner's children. They, unlike any other breed are the real deal.

Billy: I know about their "high tolerance for pain". I took Dolly to the University of Ga. School of Vetenary Medicine where they diagnosed her debility. I cringed as the vet manilulated her hip joint; moving it in arcs never intended by nature. She lay there with no evidence of pain whereas, the x-rays had shown the deteriation of those joints to be extensive. She 'smiled' as I petted her--no restaints were necessary--even as this strange, new human 'hurt' her with his movement of her rear leg(s). Some times you have to make the hard decisions.....good luck with your beautiful pits.

Dan

 

I'll have to challenge you on this one:

I have owned Pits and Boxers all my life. A Boxer is more tolerate, hardly ever fierce unless asked or coaxed to be, yet just as strong or more, and is probably the best protectant of children of nearly any animal. Pits can be very impatient and edgy. Boxer's are *instinctively* "hearing" guard dogs, in that it's alert, dignified and self-assured. A Boxer can distinguish friendly overtures honestly rendered, which I can't say the same for a Pit. He has no peer as a companion for children or for any other member of the family, but particularly children. If a Boxer sees a baby in its owner's arms, he will gaze admiringly at the baby, never raising his eyes above it.

A Boxer has the ability to think before he acts. If someone steps on his foot, he will wag his tail as if he is saying, "I forgive you. I know you didn't mean to do it." Do that to a Pit and you'll probably get your foot bit off. If he goes to sleep in the evening near the family, you can be sure that his head will be resting on someone's foot or neck. A properly bred and cared for Boxer will not start a fight with other dogs, but he will protect himself and those he regards as his own, and will NOT back down to any dog, even twice his size. One lock w/ the underbite vice grips on another dogs neck and he will not let go, causing this dog to surrender, much like a Pit will do. A Boxer lives for the vet, in that it actually enjoys going to the doctor. You'll never see this dog cry or back away from a shot.

Some people think that a Boxer is kinned to a Bulldog, or vice versa. In reality, the Boxer breed and the English Bulldog were created from a type of breed of Bull out of Germany, called the Bullenbeisser.

The English Bulldog was responsible for bringing the white influence into the Boxer breed, though. Some of the early type of English Bulldogs were imported to Germany and crossed with some of the local dogs. However, the ancestry of these dogs was the same as the German dogs, so we must consider the small Bullenbeisser to be the true ancester of both the Boxer and the English Bulldog. Even before the first stud books were set up, the Boxer was essentially a purebred dog and not a cross breed as the term is used today.

It would probably be unfair to say the Boxer is a cross between the Bulldog and the small Bullenbeisser as it would be to say the Bulldog is a cross between the Boxer and the small Mastiff. I should note that the English Bulldog of way back when did not resemble the low, coarse, heavy, and bow-legged English Bulldog of today. It was of the small mastiff-type, being fairly fast, longer of leg, and more the type of the present Boxer.

So you will know, a Boxer is used and trained for police work in Germany. Here in the USA they are used to lead the blind at two of the largest schools used for this purpose. Try doing that with an impatient Pit.

I have 3 Boxers now. 1 Fawn female, Sam, who is 5. 1 totally White (w/ black eye) male, Joe, who is nearly 3, and 1 Fawn female, Harley-Anne Davidson (we just call her Harley, LoL), who is 4.5 months old. Joe is definitely the most unique of them all in that he's white. He is Sam's son (which I almost named Samson--get it?). He can hear normally and see perfect, which is rare from a white Boxer. Both his eyes are brown, which some white's are blue on one side and brown the other. Sam weighs 55 (she wasn't a runt, but just not a larger Boxer), Joe an 80# termite, and Harley should be approx. 75 when full grown (her mom is 75, and Dad 78). Harley's Grandfather is Ch. High-Tech Arbitrage, who was a consistent winner at the Westminster Kennel Club Show. He was Best of Breed winner at the '94 and '95 show, and has won over 50 Bests in show.

Anyhoo, I've typed enough about dogs. I nearly forgot this was a Lightning forum

 

Bfb,
I guess that means your a boxer fan and owner. Its alright be proud of your dogs no matter what type they are. I dont want to forget about my puppy beagle. The 2 pits (1 female 1 male) act like the parents of the beagle since day 1. And pumba sleeps next to me no matter where or when i lay down. Unless my wifes around. then she sleeps on the floor. I love my dogs as you all may love yours. I will fight to the end with and for them. I understand that some of you have heard bad press or had a dog that they liked better then a pit but I love all my dogs. It takes a personal opion to decide when and if they are ready to be around kids. If at the first meet of kids and pets it goes go then as time goes on it only gets better. Some animals are not kid pets. Mine are. They are indoor dogs most of the time and live a ggod life. Thet go everywhere with no leash no if they wander they dont go more then 20 ft from me. They dont chase cats (unless I let em, Damn things keep jumping on my truck). Anyways case closed. Im not on trial for letting my kids go around my dogs. I think now days they are more bigger and far worse things (like priests and pedofiles) to be afraid.

 

Sometimes all it takes is a sound or a movement to trigger a violent and dangerous response from (typically) breed types like Pits. I hope you never have to deal with anything like that involving your dogs and somebody you love. I have and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Just remember, hind sight is 20/20. and hearing somebody add insult to injury with the simple sentence, "I told you so" isn't fun.
CA