18 month Pitbull (type) General Chat

So what happened to the dog that the thread was about?

Ah! Funny you ask, having just returned from a long working fortnight, I have good news: he is most likely not a Pit, but a cross bulldog/staff, or some such.

I have a video of him here. Terribly savage as you can see.

He looks like he has settled in well.

Are you going to keep him?

Savage indeed! I'm glad he's settled and is not a pit - he doesn't look like a pit I have to say!

We will keep him, I'm 95% sure of it. He's absolutely adorable. Soppiest thing I've ever seen. Nancy, the pup staff, taunts him all the time and he softly bats her out the way, time after time, and she just keeps coming back for more! He's very protective of Millie and Nancy, and the family, so we have to watch him with other dogs.

I must thank you all for your help and support.

Glad its worked out ok and that he's not a pit

That's great news! Looks like he's settled in really well

So, yet more news.

Thanks to the help from the lady at Egar (who we contacted), we got in touch with Cotswold Canine Rescue. They were exceptionally helpful and offered to re-home Pat and even pay for his castration, tagging, and vet fees.

Today they came to collect him for castration. Everything was fine until we got a call from Lucy (works for Cotswold Canine) saying that the vet took him in under the pretence of castration, but was going to put him to sleep as he was 'definitely Pit' (these vets are full of sh*t, eh?). Luckily, Lucy managed to get him out of the vets.

Is there any way we can get bona fide word he is not Pit? Having spoken to a lot of people in the know, he is definitely not Pitbull. Even I can tell this after studying nigh on thousands of photo's on the internet of bulldogs, mastiff crosses, pitbulls, staff crosses, etc.

This is rather ongoing.

Don't really understand how a vet could do that as you need to sign a consent form to have a dog PTS ? :?

i thought you were keeping him?

you could try getting him assessed by a DLO

Thats a shame...you thought you had it all sorted and then they do that:?
Sorry i dont know the answer, but keep bumping the thread up till someone sees it who can help!!

That is DISGUSTING!!!! Surely that cannot be legal, to take a dog under the false pretence of re-homing it, then having it PTS - I cannot believe anyone could be so deceitful. Surely, if he wanted to put Pat to sleep because of the Pitbull thing, he would have to apply and do it through the proper channels

You really can't trust anybody, if you can't trust a Vet

Well, I don't have an answer but I hope somebody does, as it's clear that this dog needs help. Lots of people said they thought he wasn't Pitbull, so perhaps some paperwork to confirm that might be helpful. How you go about that, I do not know. Hope someone can help you. You really have been a guardian angel to this boy, whatever his breed.

Best of luck to you in sorting out his problems

Lucy works for a charity and gets money off the vet fees, so if that could change the consent forms then I suppose that's what they were planning on.

What's a DLO?

Also, Cheeky, rest assured Cotswold Canine are godsends, it's the vets who are the bast*rds. They did everything they could but the vet tried to take him away from them.

I am sure what the vet has tried to do is illegal. A vet can only put a dog down (apart from desperate EMERGENCIES) with signed consent of the owner/guardian - who is that in this case? Technically they can put a dog down for ANY reason if the owner wants it done but it has to be the owner's express authorisation. No idea where you go from here though. There is a dog law expert but i can't remember his name off my head - will have a look. Maybe worth contacting DEFRA about people who can "authenticate" pits but that may risk him going into care for a long period to prove it or not.

Oh, sorry, was so disgusted at what I was reading, I didn't take it all in properly! I assumed the Vet worked at Cots Can

I read it all through properly and see the situation now!

Thank goodness Lucy got the dog away from the Vet before anything awful happened

I really hope something gets sorted out:?

Found this for you in case it helps (if i am allowed to post it...
http://www.cfba.co.uk/law.htm

a DLO is Dog Liaison Officer.
most pilcie forces have them. the met has dozens, hertfordshire has 1. i dont know about dorset

if the dog is friendly, you live in a rural location with no pit bull issue, and you have all the assessments and evidence in your favour re his type, then the odds are that the local DLO will approve your dog.

i would check with Trevor cooper first though, on the last link

im curious as i thought you wanted to keep him?

We did want to keep him - we still do. The problem we have is we already have three pets, four with him included, and he is more hard work than all of the others combined. My mum is ill and I work a lot. If we had no other dogs, or just Millie (OAP), we'd keep him.

I'll get onto the CFBA, though where did you see the name Trevor Cooper?

Also, having just spoken to the lady at Egar again, she said a lot of vets, like police, are terribly ignorant and have no compassion at all.

Over the last year or so I've lost all respect for authorities in this country.

www.justicefordogs.org i think these can help-they helped with my mums 'aggressive' dog who had a destruction order served on him but they helped prove his innocence

sorry- that was wrong website!! you can contact justice for dogs uk on 01544 370 213