LORI’S CORNER: Sandman + Hollywood

Every Sunday, we offer a free Pit bull walking class at the Coliseum from 9:30 – 11:30. Notice that I didn’t use the word training? It’s really not about training the dogs to sit, stay and down, which are really just tricks in the dogs’ minds. We emphasis socialization, deal with common challenges that many of us pit bull owners experience such as dog aggression, as well as offer support for students who are struggling with their dogs, perhaps even contemplating taking the dogs to the shelter or worse. Sometimes, our class is the last stop for a dog before an owner just gives up! There are often 30+ dogs in the class, there is no sign up, you can drop in or drop out, there are always new students and lots of new puppies any given week. Many of the puppies, grow up in our class like Queenie, JJ, Pretty, Big Boy, and now Handsome and Ripley.

Sunday was a really special day, Hollywood, a very famous bully who has won numerous prizes at the Atomic Dogg shows, made a grand appearance for our photo shoot with rapper Sandman Negus and his crew. Hollywood is so dog aggressive that he has to be wheeled into the park in a customized crate on wheels. I doubt anyone reading this story has ever seen something so tricked out as his “chariot”, with the metallic bronze paint job to the custom rims. Hollywood came into the park in style.


Sandman posed for some photos with Hollywood as well as some of the other class members’ dogs. These photos will be used in our 2011 calendar as well as our dog clinic flyers. Sandman has also agreed to help us put out a special message against dog fighting and protecting our breed, the American Pit bull Terrier, composing a special song about pit bulls.

Check out Sandman’s music on MYSPACE


I have always felt that the best way to get the message out to the community is to enlist the support of the community. We will be shooting a series of local rappers with pit bulls. All of the rappers are against dog fighting and animal cruelty. In fact, one of the rappers has a special invitation for Michael Vick to come out to our class and check out the positive ways that we are working our pit bulls, avoiding fighting and personal protection work, which is now fairly common in urban areas.

Check out this video where you will see the men teaching their “Ban Dog” to bite a person. Imagine if you live in a high crime neighborhood, are a young man, who can’t carry a weapon, this might seem pretty cool to teach your dog.

PIT BULL BITE WORK VIDEO:

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard Dog Man tell new students why you should never teach a Pit Bull Bite Work and why dog fighting is really bad news on so many levels. I truly believe that we will have a new generation of pit bull owners who treat their dogs with respect and compassion because of our class, which continues to promote positive ownership. All of the photos will be available on our blog and on our web site very soon.

Thank you Eric Anthony for taking the photos today!

2017-05-24T08:44:33+00:00
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