New member of the family

[BrianR]

Originally Posted by Bullitt

What kind of food would you feed a two-three year old? Is that into the "adult" range of food? Specific toys they like?

That would fall into the "tweens"...juvenile stage of development. You can get away with good quality adult dog food. A good name to try is Purina One, available at most groceries. There are other brands including the newer "organic" and private labels available at your local PetSmart or the like. Mine is a garbage-gut and will eat nearly anything.

His favorite toys include Wilson tennis balls (I hate cleaning up the little balls of fuzz he loves to pull off though), Kong chewies, ordinary rawhide bones, rag-ropes (made of old rags, sold in Walmart and PetSmart) and a rubber ring that I cannot remember the maker of but is well-nigh indestructible. I read about it here. Pit bulls like to bite and chew but are rarely destructive with this if given sufficient proper outlets.

My dog enjoys tug of war second only to Tag. We have a fairly small backyard but it is enough to exercise a smallish pit bull terrier and a minipoodle, whom Junior regards as the ultimate playtoy.

Here is a pic of Junior in post #15

[Bullitt]

Okay that's good to know about the chew toys, thanks! We will get her a mix of things, rawhides, string knot ropes, tennis balls, etc. (that rubber ring link didn't work) I read that you ought to use a "rubber brush" on short hair dogs such as these, any truth to that?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Bullitt

Okay that's good to know about the chew toys, thanks! We will get her a mix of things, rawhides, string knot ropes, tennis balls, etc. (that rubber ring link didn't work) I read that you ought to use a "rubber brush" on short hair dogs such as these, any truth to that?

Be carefull of rawhides and pigs-ears, from third world countries, that use nasty chemicals in their processing.