UKC American Pitbull - Free To Good Home

[Pitbull2GoodHome]

Me and the Wife are moving back are trying to move back to the states, and the process is involving quite a few trips to the US for a month at a time, then back to Thailand. Our house is in the boonies near Prasat, Surin, and its incredibly difficult to find trustworthy (to me) people to house sit for us and watch our dog for extended periods of time. Most people are scared of the dog or have absolutely no idea how to interact and exercise with a dog like this. I feel terrible when we have to leave him in the care of a relative and all they do is come over once a day and feed him and thats all the human interaction he gets for 2 -3 weeks while we are gone.

Ive exhausted just about every avenue I can think of, and the only thing I can come up with is to try and give Dallas away to a good home. I think thats the best, least stressful thing for him as much as I REALLY hate to do it.

Right now, I built a house here and we are on 1/2 Rai. 800 Sq. Meter. There is a block wall around the house and the dog has full run of the house and lawn. He gets walked 2-3 times a day and we are the only house on a rural dead end street. He free feeds dry dog food bought from Big-C. He is FULLY house broken and does not get on the furniture. Ever. He likes to play tug of war with the rope toy and knows the basics of Sit, Shake, Down, and Stay. He LOVES women and kids for some reason but jumps all over males (not aggressively) when they come onto the property.

My wifes nephew is like 2 or 3 years old and rides the dog like a horse and pulls on his tail/lips/ears and he does not even care. Dallas turned 2 in August, and loves people. I have NEVER seen him get aggressive towards people at all. In fact, he does not even bark at anyone when they come up to the house.

Now here are the things that need be thought about if someone wants Dallas:

He is EXTREMELY prey driven. This is the reason we can not give him to my wifes parents to stay. They have a perfect place with 6-7 Rai & block wall, but the place is FULL of chickens. Half of these chickens are cock fighting chickens and Dallas will DESTROY the place trying to get at them. He will kill them, and eat them. Feet, feathers, beak, bones, and all. Same with cats, but cats are pretty smart and just get out of his range. Any small animal is fair game to him. Even snakes. Anything really. He also goes after buffalo and cows to the point that they stress out and could hurt themselves jumping over rice paddy berms and tearing out their nose ropes. Makes for pissed off farmers.

Dallas loves to ride in the car and will just sit in there if you leave the car door open, but the prey drive thing messes it up if you are not careful. I swear he can hear a chicken from a mile away and goes full retard in the car. He is also very protective of the car and no other dogs can be around him.

He pulls on the leash pretty bad, but this is my fault. About 6 months after we got him I had to take another job offshore on a real shitty rotation and was gone for a while and the problem progressively got worse because my wife cannot control him on the lead like I can. The dog only weighs 10 kilo less than her.

So basically, Dallas is a house dog that loves people, but needs a good leader that is there all the time. He needs to be on a property that is properly walled so he cant get out, and he likes to sleep inside the house on his dog bed. Most of his negative traits can be trained/socialized out with time but its going to take someone thats got a few hours a day to interact with him and be real consistent. He can live with another dog in the house, but it will take a few days and a close eye to get them comfortable.

[Pitbull2GoodHome]

[Pitbull2GoodHome]

Anyway, if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask away, or send me a PM.

[tw25rw]

Is he neutered?

[Spoonman]

Is he neutered?

The dog or the owner ?

[Pitbull2GoodHome]

Is he neutered?

No, Dallas is not neutered.

[meatboy]

Anyway, if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask away, or send me a PM.

i have a question for you,2yrs.of loyalty,a member of your family,

why cant you take him with you? or have you no feelings for him.

nobody can replace your love and care and him being 2yrs.old he is not going to find it easy with strange face's.

i know i would be heartbroken if faced with this decision to find someone you can TRUST to take good care of him,and he has to TRUST THEM ASWELL.but i would never put myself in that situation.

please if its possible consider taking him with you he is part of your family.

so if there is anyone out there who can give him the love he wants please help.

[Pitbull2GoodHome]

Anyway, if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask away, or send me a PM.

i have a question for you,2yrs.of loyalty,a member of your family,

why cant you take him with you? or have you no feelings for him.

nobody can replace your love and care and him being 2yrs.old he is not going to find it easy with strange face's.

i know i would be heartbroken if faced with this decision to find someone you can TRUST to take good care of him,and he has to TRUST THEM ASWELL.but i would never put myself in that situation.

please if its possible consider taking him with you he is part of your family.

so if there is anyone out there who can give him the love he wants please help.

I have already gone through this option. It is difficult to ship a full adult pitbull in an aircraft cargo hold. The airlines classify them as "Fighting Dogs" and most do NOT allow this type of dog at this age. Puppies and whatnot are fine. Now, there are a few airlines that DO allow "Fighting Dogs" but the require a "Fighting Dog" Crate. These are not sold in Thailand ANYWHERE that I can see and getting plans/prints for one is hard. So it CAN be done, but its difficult. Needless to say, being a "Fighting Dog" (as classified by the airlines) and being such a LONG trip, the only thing the dog will get is food and water. It will not be let out of the crate or anything. To me, this seems REALLY stressful to the animal.

Further, the real issue is that I work offshore. I leave for extended periods. My wife is not going to be living at the house in the USA full time until probably January 2015 so for about the next year its going to be me and the wife jumping from thailand and the states and not really staying in one place. Know what I mean? Thailand or the states, nobody is going to be there full time for a while.

Lastly, I'm not just going to give my dog to just anyone that wants him. If that was the case, I could offload him right now. Im trying to find a responsible owner that understands the animal and has the right kind of living arrangements and of course the time for him.

This is not really the easiest thing for me, and I have been going back and forth about it for about 6 months, but I have to be realistic about everything and I have to think about what might be best for the dog also. I believe if I can find a GOOD home for him, it would be better and less stressful than trying to ship him around the world and finding kennels to leave him when everyone is traveling.

[alfieconn]

Is he neutered?

Go for it tw, you know you want him !

[meatboy]

Is he neutered?

Go for it tw, you know you want him !

tw.have you any experiance with this breed of dog? my wife's brother has one and he is an absolute baby with everyone at home but here's the but my bil.is the only one he will take commands from,mind you he is built like a gorrilla[bil that is]

[tw25rw]

Is he neutered?

Go for it tw, you know you want him !

I don't want him.. I was just speculating as to the risk of this dog contributing to the soi dog gene pool..

[alfieconn]

Is he neutered?

Go for it tw, you know you want him !

I don't want him.. I was just speculating as to the risk of this dog contributing to the soi dog gene pool..

If you read the post the poster said

There is a block wall around the house

So not much chance of that ! besides he'd probaly rather kill em than <deleted> em !

Incidently my two males havn't been neutered either !

[BottleBlonde]

It sounds like you really have thought carefully about everything, but being a pitbull owner myself, I know what you are up against in the battle to find him a "Responsible" owner. I personally do not agree with leaving an animal that should be part of your family, but also appreciate how strict airlines etc are on these breeds. I wish you the best of luck in your quest, he looks a lovely dog. Maybe try contacting some kennel clubs / breeders here. Again not something I agree with, but may be your best bet in finding him an owner that knows what his needs and the needs of the breed are.

[muchogra]

It really is a bummer. He's a good looking dog.

Hope you find a solution that he's able to be with either of you. If not, hope you find a good owner.

[meatboy]

It sounds like you really have thought carefully about everything, but being a pitbull owner myself, I know what you are up against in the battle to find him a "Responsible" owner. I personally do not agree with leaving an animal that should be part of your family, but also appreciate how strict airlines etc are on these breeds. I wish you the best of luck in your quest, he looks a lovely dog. Maybe try contacting some kennel clubs / breeders here. Again not something I agree with, but may be your best bet in finding him an owner that knows what his needs and the needs of the breed are.

i agree with you wholeheartedly,having exsperianced a loving freind of mine who was owned by my uncle who went away and left him with my mother who couldnt look after him as she was blind and i was in school,the dog was eventually sold he was a beautyful red setter[red] and my best freind.i never knew where he went but one day i was playing football and at half time while on the touchline i saw this dog running around,i will never forget the owner hit him with a stick making the dog cow down then he kicked him,being a bit of a nutter i aproached the dog who reconised me straight away it was red.it cost me £10 and was put on probation for 6months for assaulting this so called owner.i will never forget it and since then i swore if i had a dog who for some unfortunate reason i had to part with it i would rather put the dog to sleep.nobody can look after your dog better than you and they dont take 24hrs to forget you.

i dont know how the op is going to resolve this as this is not the every day run of the mill dog.

i wouldnt ever put myself in this position.

[Pitbull2GoodHome]

It sounds like you really have thought carefully about everything, but being a pitbull owner myself, I know what you are up against in the battle to find him a "Responsible" owner. I personally do not agree with leaving an animal that should be part of your family, but also appreciate how strict airlines etc are on these breeds. I wish you the best of luck in your quest, he looks a lovely dog. Maybe try contacting some kennel clubs / breeders here. Again not something I agree with, but may be your best bet in finding him an owner that knows what his needs and the needs of the breed are.

My wife has posted on a few of the thai pitbull owner forums and we get calls everyday about him. I just don't trust any of the Thais. They just lock them in a kennel most of the day and breed them when possible. Its a money thing for them. Puppy Farms.

I still have time, so Im going to be as selective as possible.

[Patsycat]

Did he eat all those bricks in the piccy?!!