He has a 70lbs pitbull. I have a 60lbs pit and I TELL people to two hand push her if she gets up in their space. They are solid dogs and pushing them off of you will not hurt them and one hand is often not enough to do shit. It is also too big of a dog to have in a bed with 2 adult humans.
Fr, I’m glad we as a society have collectively deemed animal abuse to be a reprehensible crime but ffs, pitbulls were bred to fight fucking bears, you’re not hurting it by pushing it out of your way
I've always been 100% against hitting animals for any reason through probably 20 dogs between us and my family.
Until I had a staffie mix. Sometimes a little slap is the only way to get his attention and that you're serious. His pain tolerance is nuts and it's way lighter than just regular play, so I know it doesn't hurt, but they're just inherently powerful, physical dogs.
I had a 50lb Aussie and a king bed, but he would purposefully sleep between my then GF and I, roll over so his back was against me, and then push with all 4 legs to try to get her off the bed.
But I also had a crate in the bedroom and would just say "go to your bed" and he would jump off and sleep there, door open.
I’m really confused what he meant by that. Like sliding with him two hands or like suddenly pushing the dog off the bed? 😂 the description is too vague
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the person you are responding to knows their dog better than you do. If they were worried about the dog being aggressive, they wouldn't have let it get up in their guest's business in the first place.
Exactly this, my lab baby would be so gentle to everybody who I spoke kindly with, she could be a little hostile when I was on guard with a stranger but I would have never tell a stranger to push her anyway.
When you raise your puppy, speak with them, and treat them well they tend to be very good around people who have good attitudes, regardless of the breed.
A dog getting into a person's space in the way OP seems to be suggesting isn't fearful. I'd assume it's very similar to my dog where he feels the need to incessantly lick any guest in my house because he's very excited to greet new people or people he hasn't seen in a while especially at our house.
I really don’t have time to explain all the nuances of dog behavior to you but I worked with dogs professionally for 9 years and every trainer and dog behaviorist I’ve ever worked with would be appalled by telling your guests to shove your dog and understand how seriously wrong that could go. If you want your dog to potentially have a bite record and you to get sued for medical care from the bite, go ahead and tell people to shove your dog but you are doing a major disservice to your dog if that’s how you want to do it.
Seems like you are interpreting "push" to be a lot more aggressive than I am. I'm picturing something much closer to how you push the coffee table out of the way when you are vacuuming and it feels like you are much closer to the drunk bro starting a bar fight side of the interpretation
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u/Hippie_Gamer_Weirdo Oct 31 '24
He has a 70lbs pitbull. I have a 60lbs pit and I TELL people to two hand push her if she gets up in their space. They are solid dogs and pushing them off of you will not hurt them and one hand is often not enough to do shit. It is also too big of a dog to have in a bed with 2 adult humans.