| My girlfriend and I adopted Sam from a friend of | | | | general before we brought him home. |
| ours who had a litter of puppies. We knew Sam was | | | | Not knowing what to do about Sam, I called our |
| a pitbull, but that didn't bother us. We just had to | | | | friend whom we had gotten him from. He was able |
| have him! He was just so cute! So a few weeks later | | | | to give me a crash course on owning pitbulls and |
| we brought him home, and our journey began. | | | | pitbull puppies. We talked for about an hour and by |
| Sam our now almost 7 month old Pitbull puppy, is a | | | | time our conversation was over I had a better |
| fine example of the breed. He is already a stunning | | | | understanding of the pitbull as a breed and had in |
| 76lbs, and full of energy, but unfortunately he was | | | | hand the phone number of a professional dog handler |
| quickly becoming a holy terror around our house! Sam | | | | that had lots of experience with training pitbulls. |
| was not vicious in any sense of the word. He was | | | | So the next day I called the professional dog handler |
| more annoying than anything, and it was getting out | | | | and set up an appointment to meet with him the |
| of control. He was constantly barking, and when we | | | | following day. This is when my education on pitbull |
| get home from work and let him out of his pen he | | | | puppies began. The handler has been working with us |
| would constantly jump all over us. | | | | for about a month now, and we have seen a |
| It was even worse when we took him out on walks. | | | | wonderful improvement with Sam. It seems the main |
| Sam was pretty much out of control. He would run all | | | | problem wasn't with Sam it was with us. We were |
| over the place, in an effort to release all of his | | | | leaving him penned up for long periods of time. Then |
| stored up energy. Then there were the other dogs | | | | when we would get home and let him out we were |
| that he would see while we were out on our walk. | | | | not giving him a mechanism to release all the built up |
| He would bark violently at just the sight of them, | | | | energy that he had within him. |
| and let me tell you at 76lbs, he was very difficult to | | | | So if you have a similar problem with with your pitbull |
| keep under control! | | | | puppy or any puppy for that matter try doing fun |
| We were pretty much at our wits end to say the | | | | things with them that will help burn off that built up |
| least. We loved Sam very much, but my girlfriend | | | | energy, but if things are really bad I would highly |
| and I were starting to think that maybe we had got | | | | suggest seeking professional help. It worked in our |
| in over our heads. That maybe we should of done a | | | | case. |
| little researched on pitbull puppies and the breed in | | | | |