I am amazed at how you draw parallels between the myth of nanny dogs and raising your kids.  You are free to leave your dogs in charge of the kids.  I don't want to meet you, I don't care how you raise your kids, I don't even care if you think the silly comments your peers make are explained well.  If ignorance is bliss, you are some happy individuals.  I disagreed with the OP's idea about this being interesting pitbull history.  Most of us probably grew up with dogs, have pictures to prove it, and know our dog(s) were protective.  That being said, I bet if you look at any reputable book about game dogs, they don't have a chapter about nanny dogs.  Please contact me at the political correct squad office if I am incorrect.  I would also like anyone who runs a daycare with dogs instead of teachers who is state certified to contact me as well.

I am just sitting at work, reading the forum in between calls.  I am not trying to offend any of you that were babysat by dogs as children or use dogs to babysit your children now.  That probably makes it easier to get a babysitter on a Friday night.  

Periodically I read in the paper were some idiot left his kids with the dog while he went to score some meth or go to the bar, the end result being something goes horribly wrong while he is gone.  I can only imagine he thought about his nanny dog before he left.  I have a big bulldog that will injure my kids with his tail or drown them with drool, and I have culled some bulldogs that didn't act accordingly around the kids.  I just don't like the nanny dog bs, in most dog bite cases involving children, they were alone with the dog or not properly supervised with the dog.  Admiring pictures of kids and dogs is fine but furthering the myth that they were nanny dogs is a disservice to pit bulls and bulldogs.

Sorry, bumped the screen.  Pictures dont mean people left their kids in the care of dogs..  .

Regardless of breed, no dog should be left alone with an infant.  I don't believe that pictures of dogs with children are any indication

The Beauceron also has double dew claws.  It is a breed sometimes mentioned in the ancestory of the Catahoula.

I have always thought the Blue came from the neo mastiff or the cane corso.  It would explain larger size.  It is called a bandog when you mix a bulldog and a mastiff.

A lurcher is a sighthound crossed with any working dog.  A longdog is any two different sighthound breeds crossed.  Gazehounds & Coursing by M.H. Dutch Salmon is a good book about American stags and greyhounds.  Vargy's forum is probably the best online resource for anyone looking for info on them.

Why not show up at a land owner's house with a bucket of staples and a hammer and ask if you can maintain fence lines for a couple months while he determines if you are trustworthy or not.  I got permission to hunt the land next to mine by picking up trash along the road for about a year before asking if I could hunt out there.  People use to mow our pastures year round for the opportunity to hunt dove and quail during season.  It is easy and doesn't amount to a hill of beans to offer to do work if someone lets you hunt.  I've got plenty of people that offer that, but I've never had them show up and actually do anything.  The owners assume all responsibility and have no way of recouping any financial or material loss if you leave a gate open or your dog isn't livestock broke.  If and when you gain permission, continue to things that will keep you welcome.

Have you checked craigslist?  In Florida, at least half the listings are pits and AB's free to good home.  Alot of the time they are utd on shots.  Once they aren't cute puppies anymore, they get "rehomed".

I've got a greyhound gyp down here in polk county, she catches mostly cats,coons, and possums but she likes to catch hogs when she gets the chance.  I've got a nice place to hunt if you want to bring her down this fall.

I did the same thing as mod93 last year.  If you google stretches for sciatica, that is the stuff you do in physical therapy.  That and core strengthening exercise, ride exercise bike, lose weight.  If you take otc drugs, you may want to switch to ibuprofen.  It goes thru kidneys instead of liver like tylenol.

Sitting at work this morning browsing the forum while I read my email, I thought I  would share a verse that I  believe sums up my view as a non participating believer.  2 Corinthians 1:12...  for our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience  that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so towards you.
I think if we are decent to each other, atheist, agnostic, Christian  or whatever,  God can save us or we become carbon. Either way, we should strive to be good people.

I had bmc pup with that problem.   It it similar to rickets.  Pups that are weaned early, fed a poor diet, or don't get enough sunlight can get it.  There body has vitamin D deficiency.  Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium.  I wouldn't have taken the pup but I had my niece with me and she talked me into it.  I gave him chewable calcium supplement, poured cod liver oil over his dog food, and wrapped his legs with vet wrap at night.  I took it off in the morning to keep him from chewing it.  Don't wrap it too tight, just enough to straighten the legs.  A couple weeks and he was fine.  Make sure he can get sunlight also.

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I had my GH gyp out with me Sunday while I was working on fence lines.  We spooked a small herd and she nailed a shoat that ran out in the open instead of the swamp like the rest of them.   I was going to breed her to a pit/cur that was working out good but he got kicked by my bull.  She just came out of heat again.  She runs around with a AB pup in the yard.  I haven't started him catching yet, he is only 9 months old.  He is long legged and stock broke, if he bred her I will give pups to anybody in Florida that takes good care of their dogs.

I have a greyhound that will catch smaller hogs if they are running but if they are bayed she won't catch.  She gets cut real easy also.  She wears a bayhead vest and is awesome to watch when she is after one.

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My name is Andrew and I live in Winter Haven.  I have been a member for awhile, mostly reading the archives.  I hurt my back at work last year and spent a week in bed.  Alot of good reading on this forum.  I have a greyhound that will slow down a runner, she catches but doesn't really stop it.  My old catch dog was able to catch at that point.  My bull kicked him one night right before I hurt my back.  Now I have a 7 month old ab/cane corso that is looking like a keeper.  I also included a pic of one I shot awhile back.  He was tearing up fence and gnawing on the cows protein block. 

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