Fighting or playing it's all up to the owner of a new pet. After two
years of listening to our children beg and plead with us to get them a puppy
dog, my husband and I finally gave in. We decided to adopt a dog from the
near by animal shelters. We had a particular dog in mind already. We were
bound and determine that we were going to look for a Golden Retriever.
After several attempts, we had failed to locate this particular breed, my
husband suggested that maybe we look at other breeds in general. We all
agreed that the dog we were going to get had to be friendly, loveable, and
cute and very good with children (since 2 of our children have previously
been attacked by a dog, but what we found was a Pit Bull who has been
misunderstood from the beginning of time.
On that Sunday, we got into our car and went back to the San Martin
Animal Shelter to pick up our new addition to our family Chance, the Pit
Bull. The perfect family dog but what we didn't know was all the sadness
that goes with owning a pre-stereotyped breed and the assumptions made by
society about the "KILLER PIT BULLS".
At first it was a difficult transition for everyone in the family to have a
dog in the house let alone a Pit Bull that is 9 month's old. Chance needed
allot of attention, training and just time to adapt to his new environment. In
addition to him needed time; the family also needed time to adapt especially
our kids. Our children have never had a dog before and also needed to be
trained on what they can and cannot do to the dog. All this took time and
energy, but we all were bound to make this new experience with our new
(baby) dog work. One of the things that we all agreed on was that our new
dog was apart of the family in all aspects that he was going to go
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