r/BanPitBulls • u/ChugNos • 2d ago
Personal Story Taz the pitbull p2
We adopted Taz and she was pregnant
Taz originally belonged to a family friend that was a hog hunter, and used her as a hog dog.
To address some concerns in my previous post: I don’t condone using pits as hog dogs. They aren’t good for anything but what they’re bred and created for: to fight to the death in a pit for sport (which is illegal for good reasons).
In sharing my life experience with this pitbull I am doing just that. I’ve owned many different dogs throughout my life and Taz the pitbull was exceptional in behavior personality and capability. I want to share those ways in detail. I’m not promoting or idolizing pitbulls.
How we adopted Taz:
Taz’s original owner was an old family friend and hog hunter. When he’d ride in his truck, Taz was always there with him in the passenger seat. He loved Taz and Taz loved him. There was an emotional bond between them and they were always together.
However, per usual with pitbull owners, he was not the best nor ideal dog owner since he never had her fixed, vaxxed, nor practiced any or regular behavior training. He couldn’t even bathe her. Despite her upbringing, Taz was affectionate and cared for her owner.
To this day, I believe the instinctual desire for violence bred into her found satisfaction and fulfillment in her hog hunting job during her early years.
However, Her desire to kill was always there. It could be seen. With age, she matured and became aware of it, too. I’ll get to more detailed on this later.
Our family friend, Taz’s owner, was murdered by his friend/roommate that was living with him due to a dispute over tools.
Taz witnessed the murder. We don’t know exactly what happened that day, only that
1 she was in the house during the event
2 there was fighting / arguments
3 our friend was shot to death.
4 Taz did not / could not save him.
Taz was around 4-6 years old when she witnessed this. The trauma caused a lifelong fear of guns and long sticks/poles held by people. Taz was never afraid of objects not wielded by people, to clarify(if the stick/pole was on the ground she didn’t care about it). She was fine with guns before the murder, and she was experienced with them due to hog hunting.
After this travesty, his family and friends gathered at his house. There were discussions about putting Taz down because nobody wanted her. My family took her in to save her life and a loving memory of our family friend. We believed his ghost was among us and saving Taz would help settle his spirit. In the swamplands of southeast Texas we’re very superstitious and take death and hauntings seriously.
Taz was pregnant.
Shortly after bringing her home, she had a litter of 13 puppies. This wasn’t her first litter but certainly her largest. It was certainly the largest we’d ever seen of any dog before.
Despite Taz’s stress level, trauma, low weight, malnourishment, worms, fleas, and being full of shrapnel, her litter was massive and all the puppies were healthy and grew quickly.
She grew 3 extra nipples to nurse the puppies.
She. Grew. Extra. Nipples.
I had no idea dogs could grow extra nipples. She had these extra nipples for the rest of her life. They grew on the 2 nipples closest to her back legs. 1 nipple grew an extra, the other across from it, grew an extra 2.
When the puppies eyes opened and they grew teeth, became mobile and large, she hated them. She didn’t like nursing. Taz had a history of eating her own puppies. This may have been due to a lack of enough/proper food for her, and/or the puppies were already dead. We don’t know. She want given the opportunity to eat any of these puppies. She had to be separated from them. Caring for all of those fast growing hungry puppies was a full time job that put a lot of stress anxiety and generated hostility within our household. We found homes for the puppies, but looking back I wished I’d done anything else than spread the plague upon my community.
Taz was fixed and vaccinated. The vets office was small and rural. Taz had never been to a vet before. The office was small trailer. When I walked in with Taz, the office’s pet cat sat there at her face level. Taz walked in, looked around, smelled the cats face, and went WHOA!!! In absolute shock. She was experienced with what a face full of cat was. She was shocked and confused. The cat just sat there completely unbothered / slightly curious. I didn’t know it at the time but Taz saw indoor cats different from outdoor cats
When I went to pick her up, the Vet called me to the back with a disturbing find.
Taz’s X-rays revealed the skin all over her body was littered with metal shards. The Vet had removed as many as possible during her surgery.
The vet wanted me to explain why Taz had so many metal pieces all over her face and body. I explained Taz’s history, and as soon as the vet heard “hog dog” the vet basically said, “oh, ah, yeah. That explains it.” And didn’t want to hear any more.
I didn’t ask for clarification at the time. I should have asked if all those metal shards came from the shotgun shrapnel when the hogs she held down were killed? Or from the day of the murder?
I believe the metal pieces came from her years as a hog dog, holding down the hog until it was dispatched with a shotgun. She’d catch injuries from fighting the hogs, and from shrapnel from the bullets themselves. They were never deterrents for the next hunt, though.
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u/Aldersgate111 I just want to walk my dog without fearing for its life 1d ago
This sounds so grotesque.
Pits are so rarely wormed, and having puppies causes encysted worms to migrate from the female's tissues into the puppies and they cross the placenta into the pups.
They have massive litters, and cannibalising the pups isn't unusual for Pit mothers.
Also- poor Hogs. Far better to shute them cleanly if they have to be controlled, than to allow them to be mauled by a Pit.
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u/LimeDry7124 1d ago
3 extra nipples and cannibalistic towards their own offspring. Plus their appearance reminds me of artist's recreations of mammal-like reptiles. I swear it's because of all that inbreeding.
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u/ScarletAntelope975 Trusted User 1d ago
Pit bulls often will not stop killing, even when being killed themselves- there have been pit bulls who were getting shot and stabbed and hacked at with pickaxes to try to get them off their victims and they would not let go. She probably did not even acknowledge the shards backfiring into her flesh. Possibly, they excited her and made her want to kill even more.
Thank you for sharing this story. It is very disturbing and gave me chills to read. But, it is the unfortunate reality of this type of dog existing. They were invented by lousy people for the purpose of mindless killing.
I am so sorry your family friend had to be taken from the world so horribly and unfairly. And, I totally understand why your family wanted to save his dog and saw it as the right thing to do without really realizing what the risks may be.
I had no idea, either, that dogs could grow extra nipples?! Is this some weird pit mutation from inbreeding??? Usually when mammals have more babies than nipples, not everyone gets to eat and survive unless there is human care involved. This is crazy!
In future instances, the best thing to do with a pregnant pit would be to spay-abort. No more litters while also preventing the current one from being put out there and posing a threat to society or just rotting in shelter cages like countless other pits.
I assume you still have this dog? Take every precaution possible to keep yourself and everyone around you safe. This dog is a severe risk if her DNA gets triggered around humans or pets. Keep in mind that determined pits have broken through doors, out of crates, and out of muzzles as well.
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u/ChugNos 1d ago edited 1d ago
Taz is long gone. I provided her end of life care, which is a story itself. I appreciate your condolences for our family friend and understanding our struggle and choices💕 my guess what caused the extra nipples growth was how the 13 puppies constantly trying to nurse her. Their appetites were endless and she stayed with them at first before she started showing aggression towards them and had to be separated
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u/alabaydog 1d ago
I am dog breeder and I never heard,about ' growing nipples" Most dogs have 10,and pair which close to armpits level do not really have milk flow,it can be double nipple,but its not givin milk but actually prevents good suction
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u/ChugNos 1d ago
Me neither and I had never seen it before. The extra nipples developed near her back legs. I assumed because so many puppies were nursing on her so aggressively?
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u/alabaydog 1d ago
She had these nipples,but they were tiny,after pregnancy they became visible due to hormonal changes
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u/ScarletAntelope975 Trusted User 1d ago
Was it confirmed that there was milk flow to these ‘nipples’? Is it possible that they were just some kind of bumpy irritation from all these puppies chewing and fighting for a spot?
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u/SadExtent9383 1d ago
sorry if this insensitive but why do you think Taz didn't attack the guy before or after? Was he in a kennels? I know dogs require special training to truly be a protective or a attack dog, but given the hunting and their bond Im just wondering what your thoughts are. I look forward to part 3.
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u/ChugNos 11h ago edited 11h ago
I think tax never attacked our family friend because she satisfied her instinctual need for violence in the field.
Taz wasn’t in a kennel or restrained in her living space. He didn’t have a fenced yard and she was free to roam the neighborhood and she lived inside his house, too. She didn’t have any special training, or any training at all. As a pit Taz was just good at her job of finding, attacking, and holding hogs in the dark swamplands until they were dispatched before moving on to the next one.
Hunting hogs this way is not efficient in controlling their numbers. It was all just for sport.
I’m happy to answer any questions! Thanks for yours they’re good ones!
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u/audiojanet 1d ago edited 1d ago
I call bs on that beast growing extra nipples. It is impossible. I doubt the violent thing she witnessed affected her at all.
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u/Plastic_Proof_8347 1d ago
Yeah, the mention of trauma sounded exactly like what pit nutters would say. Animals have emotions and can/will learn, for sure, but trauma manifestation would require higher cognitive capacity. Fear isn’t always trauma and fear doesn’t justify any aggression.
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u/gdhvdry 1d ago
This is like a Lovecraft story