Very little of Florida is redneck Florida. Most of it is a tourist magnet with retirement communities of various price points dotting the horizon. It's pretty much just limited areas of north Florida that still have any rednecks at all.
White trash =/= rednecks. I have lived in various parts of Florida my whole life and have visited the vast majority of the rest of the state. There really aren't too many places with rednecks outside of north Florida and none of those places in any real concentration.
Where I'm from rednecks are beer drinkin, sometimes boot wearin, camo hat, drives a pickup, possibly listens to country music. Hunts, fishes, there are over a million hunting licenses issued in Florida every year. If a million isn't a lot I don't know what world you live in.
You're making weird generalizations there. Having a hunting or fishing/license in no way makes you a redneck. I have a hunting license but I work in an office as a consulting engineer in a very corporate setting, and significant proportion of my colleagues also have hunting licenses. None of us qualify as rednecks under any of your other criteria.
Neither does your fashion sense or music preference make you a redneck. You do realize the term redneck comes from working outside all day like a farmer (the redneck being a quintessential portion of a farmer's tan) right?
So, if you drive a pickup because you live on an orange grove and it makes your work day faster, you're a redneck; if you're a hunt leader or game fisherman who shows dudes (a dude being a city slicker) how to do your profession, you're also a redneck. But considering professions of that nature are on the decline and most groves are worked by more latinos than whites (latinos generally don't have the right skin tone to turn into a redneck), there aren't a ton of rednecks left outside the airboat tour industry and it's safe to day that there are nowhere near a million airboat rental places in Florida.
But, if you sit on the front porch of your double wide, drinking beer and collecting unemployment, you're just trailer trash. And if you wear camo and put a lift kit on your truck to drive to your state university, you're just a douche.
Pit's used to be the ultimate Nanny dog. My pit mix is absurdly controlled, and knows to not open his mouth with my nephew, and knows he can bite down a little when roughhousing with me.
They get a bad rap.
True, though that's also true for most large breed dogs. I'm of the mindset that people should roughhouse with their dogs, so they dogs get how to play. Nothing is worse than a family dog who doesn't know how to play, and ends up accidentally knocking little kids down or something. Just play with the puppy, and they will know how to play appropriately on down the road.
Right. He stops almost instantaneously when some says "Ow!" Or makes some noise like that to indicate that what he did hurt. It's nice knowing I don't have to worry about him with kids though. I see a lot of people who aren't that lucky and have to hover over the dog constantly
People don't trust me when I say, "Sure, the kids can take him outside to play. He loves to play!" and don't make a move to go outside with him. The bastard is better with kids than I am!
This is frustrating to me. Anyone else in the house can play with our dog to get her to run all over and wear herself out by pretending to go after her. When I do it hoping to easily burn some of her energy she just immediately jumps at me to go at it and won't run away no matter what I do. :( Lucky me gets to walk her 3 miles a day to burn her energy instead.
I think it's because the dog is used to play that way with you.. my beagle is the same, submissive and calm with other dogs, super nice when playing with other humans, but when I play with her she starts howling and growling and showing me teeths like she's the most vicious beast on earth... and then she licks my face.
I know it's been a couple days since you commented but you got to try running with your dog. A short burst of a ton of energy will tire them out quicker than walking a long time.
We use fetch and swimming for this purpose. She will swim 50ft out to get a ball over and over and over. She's a catahoula, so it takes a lot of exercise to keep her happy!
Pack theory with dogs has been debunked. It's more likely he plays rougher with his dog than most people so his dog knows it's ok to play rough back with him. My dog is the same because I roughhouse with him while my wife doesn't.
My border collie won't rough house with me. She and my boyfriend knock the shit out of each other, but she just gets stiff and awkward with me when I try to get her going.
That's strange. I said women in general because he will take it to that level with my gf, but only if she really wants to and is the one provoking him. But most women he won't. Most dudes, however, are fair game in his eyes. Me in particular
Yea. Mine loves to play fight, but will only do so with dogs bigger than she is.
Super sweet and cuddly with kids, and walks on eggshells around dogs her size or smaller.
She has a collie friend she'll basically wrestle with, and then she'll turn and just run around with a Frenchie without touching them except to nuzzle.
Yes, weird, but not unheard of. Remember, these dogs are still animals, and in the animal world, you either fall in line and respect the order, or you get your shit handed to you.
Same goes with humans really... Most of the time someone doesn't murder someone for cutting them off in the road.. but once in a while, someone pisses off the wrong person on the wrong day, and that dude shoots them in the face.
Yep my pit mix was playing with my cat just last night and it was hilarious how much she would put up with, and still just be gently nosing him or barely moving her mouth. They were both having a great time.
"American Bully" is a particular breed. "Bully" refers to American pit bull terriers, american bullies, American staffordshire terriers, bull terriers, American Bulldogs, English Bulldogs, French Bulldogs, Boston bull terriers, and anything else with "bull" in the name.
Edit: think of it like "terrier" or "shepherd" in that it's a term that encompasses several breeds with a lot in common, but a "German shepherd" or "Australian shepherd" means something more specific.
My experience with pit bulls leads me to believe they have an incredible pain tolerance. I've seen 2 run full speed across a dirt yard, trip, and one surf on the other for 10 feet. They got up, bleeding a bit, right back to running. One of them was nearly bald from rolling on the ground so much. They'd slam into trees, rip metal gates open with their teeth, yet they could feel a mosquito bite.
this is so true. mine is exactly as you describe but one day she was just sitting on her bed wimpering. couldn't figure out what was wrong with her. took her to the vet. 3 fleas. 3 fleas on her belly and she was whimpering like a big baby.
i think it's gotta be a psychological thing. if i pull a tick off my pittie then sometimes she cowers and shakes and wants to be held and it's like dude - you were FINE before you knew you had a tick on you and i can't imagine it hurt to have it pulled off...
Well, they were really popular for the fighting pits, hence the name. They also can be incredibly protective over smaller family members, one quote that stuck with me from German author Ulrich Klever is With a properly trained Pitbull your child may go to the park at night.
I had a relative urge me to get rid of mine when I had my son. They said one day I would have him outside laying on a blanket, implying he would be an infant at the time, and go in to answer the phone only to come back outside to find he had been mauled by the dogs. All I could think was who the fuck leaves an infant outside to go answer a phone?
Original blood sport in England was bull baiting. Basically tie up a bull and let dogs savage it. Bulldogs were bred for that.
Bull baiting was banned and so they turned to dog fighting. But the strong but slow bulldogs would consistently lose to the quicker terriers. So they bred the two together and got a quick, explosively athletic dog with incredible strength.
They don't feel pain the same way other dogs do or at least don't respond to it the same way. Mine are also really good around little kids or puppies too like they can sense when the other creatures doesn't know what they're doing.
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u/111UKD111 Sep 14 '16
That pitbull has ridiculous self control.