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Originally Posted by Barefoot
Tal, it is an interesting link. I would have guessed eight of the dogs to be pit bull mixes.
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My Mom would never accept a pit bull mix into the family no matter how sweet. Kind of sad. I doubt if she has ever been all that close to one though.
There was a chihuahua that lived across the street from Bob Carroll a KOLO News station anchorman in Reno, Nevada on the street where we lived. I would often walk past the chihuahua in the fenced in front yard and it would rush the fence and act like it wanted to take off whatever piece of me it could get a hold of.
Sparks - February 11, 2015 Program: Bob Carroll | Valentine's Day
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That chihuahua was my only real experience with the breed until adopting Sport a part chihuahua. But when I first heard that the Sumter County Humane Society foster parents were bringing a chihuahua/terrier mix to visit the house and see if it liked us, I was very much tainted by the Reno nasty little chihuahua I grew up near there. Sport like Beau is a wonderful dog. Sport is still with me in my heart.
I have met a number of nasty little chihuahuas here in the Villages however. Many sweet ones though. It seems that many of the dogs up for adoption here in the Villages' area are chihuahua mixes of some kind or pit bull mixes of some manner.
Jade is a very sweet pit bull mix I like at Doggie Doo Run Run but I have met some others at DDRR which I keep my distance from. You just have to watch the dog and the owner for a while and see how each interacts with other dogs and people. I have mentioned my problems with Harlow which looks like a pit bull/boxer mix which does not seem to like men at all. Harlow is getting better but whenever I see Harlow I go somewhere else away from any chance of me getting hurt.
My CA/NV family have pit bull mixes but they stay out west. Kind of far to go or come and if they do the dogs stay out west. They have snakes too which would even make me a little uncomfortable and probably scare the poop out of Beau.