The Day I Bit a Pit Bull

Meet Jessie. How friggin adorable is this pitty? She had the most pullable lips and was just the sweetest blue nose pit you've ever seen! But, she came to our daycare through a rescue agency I was working with and she needed a place to stay since she was howling at her foster home, and the neighbors had started to complain. She was only supposed to be with us for a few days, but that turned into a week. Not usually too big a deal except that Jessie had a high prey instinct and kept getting dogs in her mouth and holding on. Not hurting them, just kind of like a cat who runs after a bird and catches them and then looks at you like, "ok... now what do I do?" it's instinctual, but they don't really know why they are doing it, or what to do next.

Anyways, she was doing well so I let her out on a lazy Saturday afternoon with only a few dogs there. She and a few bulldogs were all hanging out together in the sunshine, when all of a sudden one of them got up to walk around and she just grabbed them in her mouth. I was on top of her in seconds trying to pry her mouth open. Right when I felt myself starting to freak out, she let go and the dog was unharmed. But, I was so pissed at her for doing it and probably had built up anger from pits grabbing dogs in their mouth for no reason I scooped her up in my arms and yelled, "how does it feel to get bit huh?!" and I bit on her her neck, tasting the leather of her collar in my mouth as I let go. I didn't bite her hard, nothing like a pit bull bite of couse. Maybe being with dogs this much and being the alpha that I am, I took on the roll of alpha dog in the room, I really don't know! I am in no way ashamed of me doing this. In fact, I love the fact that I just did it, like instinct... the exact instinct that Jessie felt when she saw "prey" running across the room. I stood there stunned at my reaction, and put her down in a separate room in the daycare. She turned around wagging her tail and licked my face.