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Old 08-14-2007, 09:40 AM   #1
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I went over to my friend's house last week and fell in love with her Pitbull, Sacha. She is the sweetest, most inquisitive dog and she gets along great with my friend's s**tzu. I also have a different friend who has a pitbull and a Chihuaua and they get along famously as well. Do any of you have experience with yorkies and pits in the same house? How do they get along? What kind of training was involved with the pit? Do you have cats?? Thanks!
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Old 08-14-2007, 09:44 AM   #2
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I don't have any other dogs but my Yorkie. However, I do have three very adult male cats. All three of my cats were immediately in love with Kalina from the moment I brought her into the house. They will occasionally very gently bat at her with their paws if they think she is running too fast or misbehaving. The rest of the time they just play with her and kiss her.
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I don't have any other dogs but my Yorkie. However, I do have three very adult male cats. All three of my cats were immediately in love with Kalina from the moment I brought her into the house. They will occasionally very gently bat at her with their paws if they think she is running too fast or misbehaving. The rest of the time they just play with her and kiss her.
Yes, my yorkie gets along great with my cat. They are best buds! I'm just worried about introducing a pit into the house... I'm hoping if I get a young one and socialize him early on it will be ok, but I'd like to hear some opinions from pit/yorkie owners before I decide.
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I have a cat and my dad has a pitbull and a shih tzu. There has never been any problems with any of them and my yorkie. The pitbull has no problems with any dog that is smaller than him. I think if the dog were his size (130 lbs) or bigger then he might get antsy.
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I have a Staffordshire Bull Terrier and up until may of this year he lived with a 6lb Yorkie girl (Heidi) and they got along fine...Heidi was 14 when she died and Bruce is 7. When we brought Bruce into our home at 8 weeks of age Heidi was 7 years old and she was the boss..if he got a little too rough as a puppy she would snap at him and he would back off. I think that is why he has a such a wonderful gentle character..he was brought up with a little Yorkie and knew he had to be gentle with her. I wouldn't say they were ever very close and affectionate with each other but they lived together quite happily. I'm 100% sure he will be fine with my new baby when i get her next month too, he is great with my MIL's collie bitch..she bosses him around terribly and he just lets her do it! and recently i had a friends male Golden Retriever to stay overnight..they had never met before so i was unsure of how they would get on and they were fine..My Bruce let him eat out of his bowl and steal his favourite camel toy! I couldn't ask for a more loving and gentle dog.
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I dont have any experience with a pitbull but I do have a bigger dog who is very gentle with my yorkies...its all about the training..with a dog like a pitbull professional training right from a puppy would probably be your best bet. I LOVE pits and would like to have one someday too!!!

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I went over to my friend's house last week and fell in love with her Pitbull, Sacha. She is the sweetest, most inquisitive dog and she gets along great with my friend's s**tzu. I also have a different friend who has a pitbull and a Chihuaua and they get along famously as well. Do any of you have experience with yorkies and pits in the same house? How do they get along? What kind of training was involved with the pit? Do you have cats?? Thanks!
I just rehomed my newfie for this reason.
I would never tell anyone else what to or not to do, but I will however suggest really considering all possibilities. A pit bull is a lot bigger than a yorkie and a pit puppy playing could break a yorkies back with one swipe of a paw. (not even meaning to, just playing) pits are going to need lots of training. They are very very very strong and willful. I would just really think about it long and hard. seriously. Are you going to be there 24/7 if not do you have a way to seperate them?
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My son and daughter in law have a pitbull named Cletus, he is huge. My Sawyer weighs 4 pounds sopping wet. They are great friends. Cletus lays down so sawyer can reach him to play. When sawyer gets too rambuctious, Cletus will hold him down with his massive paw, and lick his face. However, they also have a 7 month, 65 pound lab named Cash. When we were there this weekend, Cash chased Sawyer, and caught him and tossed him like a ball before we even knew someone had let cash in. He was just playing, but he could have killed my baby! My daughter in law is a vet tech, and Cletus went to work with her everyday of his first year, and met every kind of dog and kitty you can think of. He is so socialized ! I stillk watch him closely, and would seperate them if he even seemed aggravateed by sawyer; however, Cash the lab which is thought to be the more calm and gentle of the two breeds, can never be in the house when we are there. he is not mean, just unaware of his strength. If you get a pit, please let him meet a lot of other dogs, and people. This breed gets a bad name because people don't let them develop into a regular dog. Never brag your dog could rip anything or anyone in two, or he just might show you he can
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I think it depends on the temperment of the dog. Any breed can be nice or vicous it just depend on how it was raised.
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My brother has a pit mix who is about 90lbs and I have 2 yorkies. I have dog sitted his dog for weeks at a time in my little condo. She was GREAT with my dogs. I had no problems at all. However when I was not home they were not left together alone. She was put in the finished basement for the day and my dogs were gated into the kitchen for the day... JUSSTTT in case!

One time they 'broke' out when I was out... i came home to trash all over my house. His dog broke out of the basement, pushed my dogs gates aside and all 3 had run of the house, they went through the trash and made a mess. But noone was hurt or sick when I got home so I guess shed be ok with them alone.
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not a pitbull, but a golden lab.

my bf has a 98 lb golden lab and mocha is only about 5 lbs. being the princess she is, she bosses his lab around the house. mickey (golden lab) is 5 years old and mocha is almost 1, but he's more of a father/grandpa to her. she likes to nip (she's teething) at him and he doesn't mind except growl at her when she's out of line.

other than that, they get along very well. a couple of pictures of them together.

1. outside, enjoying the weather.
2. mickey showing mocha where to pee/poop.
3. i think this was when he barked at her and she figured out how to hide under the chair, because she thinks he can't reach her from there.
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I don't know why, with all the knowledge that we have now, anyone would go out and get a Pitt Bull.

I have known several Pitt Bulls, and they have all been very sweet, affectionate, and well behaved dogs.

But if you listen to the owners of the dogs that have attacked other dogs and fchildren, they all say that their dog as so sweet and affectionate, and they don't understand what happened.

I believe that for the most part, they are very sweedt affectionate, intelligent well behaved dogs. But for some reason that o one seems to be able to explain, they are totally unpredictable. They can be sweet as can be for years, and all of a sudden they snap.

I would never want to take that risk. JMO
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I went over to my friend's house last week and fell in love with her Pitbull, Sacha. She is the sweetest, most inquisitive dog and she gets along great with my friend's s**tzu. I also have a different friend who has a pitbull and a Chihuaua and they get along famously as well. Do any of you have experience with yorkies and pits in the same house? How do they get along? What kind of training was involved with the pit? Do you have cats?? Thanks!
My husband has a pit outside. If you decide to get one it would probably be best not to keep it in the house. One wrong step and your yorkie could be seriously hurt. My husbands pit is 110 pounds, he would not hurt a fly...but if he was to step on one of my babies it could hurt them. They do not play around him for that reason. Just weight all your options before you get one. They are great dogs they train very easily.
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one of my friends has a pit and morgan would play with her all the time. The pit lays down on the floor so morgan can play with her. She also lifts her paws up really high and carefully places them when morgan is running under foot. Its really quite sweet. Pit bulls are just like any other dog. If raised in a good home they are no more dangerous then our yorkies. At work, we have more nasty little dogs under 10lbs that i muzzle then pit bulls. In fact, i also muzzle more labs and goldens then pit bulls because THEY are more unpredictable then pit bulls. So it all depends on who you ask. I love Pits and would gladly bring one into my home if i could.

this pic is when morgan was 4-5 months old and less then 3lbs.
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My son and daughter in law have a pitbull named Cletus, he is huge. My Sawyer weighs 4 pounds sopping wet. They are great friends. Cletus lays down so sawyer can reach him to play. When sawyer gets too rambuctious, Cletus will hold him down with his massive paw, and lick his face. However, they also have a 7 month, 65 pound lab named Cash. When we were there this weekend, Cash chased Sawyer, and caught him and tossed him like a ball before we even knew someone had let cash in. He was just playing, but he could have killed my baby! My daughter in law is a vet tech, and Cletus went to work with her everyday of his first year, and met every kind of dog and kitty you can think of. He is so socialized ! I stillk watch him closely, and would seperate them if he even seemed aggravateed by sawyer; however, Cash the lab which is thought to be the more calm and gentle of the two breeds, can never be in the house when we are there. he is not mean, just unaware of his strength. If you get a pit, please let him meet a lot of other dogs, and people. This breed gets a bad name because people don't let them develop into a regular dog. Never brag your dog could rip anything or anyone in two, or he just might show you he can
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