You guys can call me Ashe if you'd like, I'll get to the point of why I decided to join your forums, I want to learn about pitbulls and bull breeds.
I am a dog lover who is [very sad to admit] afraid of dogs as of 2013, and am currently working on getting over my somewhat newly aquired phobia of dogs.
I was always a huge dog lover until December 2013 when I was left home alone in a house that wasn't mine and with pets I did not own, three pitbulls to be exact, London, the oldest, her son Timon, and the owners new, eight month old dog Bella. They broke into a fight minutes after I had let them out to do their business while I stayed with them, I, in retrospect stupidly decided to play fetch with them and think that was probably the point of contention that triggered the event, the two girls got in each others face when I was just about to let them back in and Timon jumped in.
I just reacted, I didn't think about myself and for five minutes worked in seperating the three of them and did so succesfully.
In seperating them however, Timon bit me, it was quick, like the second he realized it was me he let me go, and I don't resent that he bit me, but months after the event I was still having nightmares about it, dreaming of being ripped apart by them. Nightmares of generally awful stuff.
I decided to join today because today was the first time I EVER heard that one is not supposed to leave bull breeds alone together. Can you believe I had legitimately never heard that? [Rest $#@!ured I do NOT own a pitbull] the only dog in this house is my sister's six year old Chihuaha, and my seven year old cat.
But I digress, learning that was oddly... inexplicably comforting. I accept that playing fetch with them very possibly could have set off the fight, but I never quite understood why, and it had been eating away at my since the fight. I had labled it as dogs, in general, being 'unpredictable' and it was that ignorance that fuled my fear the most.
Ooof, that was long, sorry. TL;DR, I am very excited to have found this forum and am hoping to learn a lot, and that the more I learn the more my phobia will diminish.
Thank you all for reading.
P.S. Sorry if this is a double post, there was a field to make an introduction post upon sign-in but I can't find it anywhere and it's still asking me to make an introduction post, so.
I am a dog lover who is [very sad to admit] afraid of dogs as of 2013, and am currently working on getting over my somewhat newly aquired phobia of dogs.
I was always a huge dog lover until December 2013 when I was left home alone in a house that wasn't mine and with pets I did not own, three pitbulls to be exact, London, the oldest, her son Timon, and the owners new, eight month old dog Bella. They broke into a fight minutes after I had let them out to do their business while I stayed with them, I, in retrospect stupidly decided to play fetch with them and think that was probably the point of contention that triggered the event, the two girls got in each others face when I was just about to let them back in and Timon jumped in.
I just reacted, I didn't think about myself and for five minutes worked in seperating the three of them and did so succesfully.
In seperating them however, Timon bit me, it was quick, like the second he realized it was me he let me go, and I don't resent that he bit me, but months after the event I was still having nightmares about it, dreaming of being ripped apart by them. Nightmares of generally awful stuff.
I decided to join today because today was the first time I EVER heard that one is not supposed to leave bull breeds alone together. Can you believe I had legitimately never heard that? [Rest $#@!ured I do NOT own a pitbull] the only dog in this house is my sister's six year old Chihuaha, and my seven year old cat.
But I digress, learning that was oddly... inexplicably comforting. I accept that playing fetch with them very possibly could have set off the fight, but I never quite understood why, and it had been eating away at my since the fight. I had labled it as dogs, in general, being 'unpredictable' and it was that ignorance that fuled my fear the most.
Ooof, that was long, sorry. TL;DR, I am very excited to have found this forum and am hoping to learn a lot, and that the more I learn the more my phobia will diminish.
Thank you all for reading.
P.S. Sorry if this is a double post, there was a field to make an introduction post upon sign-in but I can't find it anywhere and it's still asking me to make an introduction post, so.
New to the forum, trying to get over dog phobia through breed education!
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