The Truth about Pit Bulls

Our pittie does the same thing. We call this "roley-poley".

I have a St. Bernard who does that! Her daddy and I like to say she is either "impersonating roadkill" or "flirting" with us...hehe...a little dark, but when people see a picture of her doing it, they can't argue!

While I can't make any statements in general, our pit wants to play with our cats. Our cats don't want to play with him. I do know many people who have pits and cats and its a big happy family! Someone told me once that it helps if the cats were their first. Would love to see some good information!

My pit bulls get along with cats. And kids. ANd just about everybody else!

All dogs and cats are different but my pit bull mix, Molly, LOVES our cats. And our two male cats love her right back (the female is not a fan of any of our dogs). Molly and Franklin will snuggle together and Maestro will purr and purr and purr while Molly licks him all over. Now, when I am walking her, if she sees a cat she goes bonkers wanting to chase it, so it has to be the cats she is used to. She also loves to lick all over our 1 yr old daughter.

My daughter had two pit mixes. One was a dane-pit who is the size and shape of "scooby-doo" and acts just like him. He LOVES cats. When my daughter's cat had kittens, the mother was not very attentive. This giant pooch collected all the kitties and cuddled them in the circle of his front legs.... I think he really wanted to be their "mommy" The other dog was a rescue and part dalmation. She was also a natural "seizure alert dog" for one of the former roommates who has epilepsy. One day My daughter brought her dogs to my house to play in the yard. I noticed that the pit-dalmation had tiny red spots on her skin all the way up all four legs to her back.... I asked my daughter about it and she said "Oh, the kittens are using her to climb on"..... Interestingly, it seems that both dogs were extremely attuned to the emotional well being of their people. The big guy was like a personal therapy dog and chose to stay with my daughter's roommate when my daughter moved back home because the roommate needed him more than she did at that time.

My sister has 2 pits and 2 cats. They all get along swimmingly. In fact, the dogs sometimes are more freaked out by the cats! Overall, they are loving animals and had I not adopted my beagle mix, we would have looked for a pitty instead.

I have recently adopted a pit mix from the shelter and we already have a Siberian Husky and a Canaan dog as well as two cats. My other dogs both ignore the cats. We got the Canaan from the shelter when she was 12 weeks old. Then about a year later we adopted our first cat from that same shelter. They pretty much ignored each other. A couple of years after a stray cat just moved into my home and never left. This cat is more skittish around dogs. She runs and hides even when the dog wasn't paying her any attention. We got the husky on a whim from a pet store. She was excited by the cats but eventually free to ignore them to a point. The husky likes to mouth the cats around the neck, and our 1st cat just lays there until the husky gets bored and moves away. The 2nd cat was still hiding. Now the Canaan is almost 13 years old, the cats are 8 and 6. The Husky is 3. We adopted a year and a half old pit mix from the shelter (anticipating the Canaan not being with us much longer, but not wanting to "replace" her in the kids' eyes). The first cat behaves the same as she always has. She walks by all of the dogs and if they show interest she just lays there until they move along. The pit has interest, but is not aggressive towards her. The second cat hisses, swats with her paws and runs to hide. I think this triggers the prey drive in the pit because he freaks out when the cat runs and he attempts to chase. He has not hurt any cat, but he hasn't really caught that cat. I have my garage pet-gated so the cats can come and go but the dogs have limited access. Once the cat hops the gate, the pit is out of luck. I can't open the cat door because the pit discovered he can fit through it! Lol.

Hi Natalie I have a pit Bull and two cats and a labrador pit bull Mix and 3 other dogs and the pit Bulls don't let the other dogs chase the cats.

I rescued my pit bull from a local shelter when he was a year and half old. I got a kitten (about 2lbs - dog is about 70lbs) last year and was a little nervous. I didn't need to be. He was immediately respectful and obsessed with his new little sister. He lets her beat him up and chew on his ears and lips and play with his tail. They always spoon and cuddle and are the best of friends.

Our pit is not bothered by cats. We do not own a cat but the neighborhood is full of them. Our pill just looks at them and shows no interest either good or bad. We have had a couple times when a neighbors cat got onto a chair on our porch. Our pit just looked at it and walked on as if it did not matter.

I have a four year old rednose pitbull, and an eight year old chihuahua, and the oldest of my pets, is a 13 year old main coone cat. All three of my animals play together, love eachother and never have issues. They are all very loving, energetic (yes even the old cat who likes to sit on the roof of the house, and causes passersby to stop and tell me a cat is stuck on the roof). They all interact well with infants, small children, and adults. Lulu the pitbull can't hold her "licker." She is full of kisses for everyone, especially when you are at her face level. My furries are my babies, loved as my children.

Like all breeds it is important to expose them as young as possible and often. However since all mine are rescued you need to be careful on the introduction, always remembering that dogs take their cue from you and look to you for guidance. A calm cat is also helpful in the endeavor. I have 3 wonderful pits and 5 cats. They all get on wonderfully

This is something I hear from a lot of people. Being the proud owner of an American bully, an American pitbull terrier and an olde English bulldogge along with 4 cats I can say that my dogs are great with cats. My American bully is actually best friends with my semi feral cat. He will groom my cat and snuggle with him. I own a semi feral domestic short hair black cat. A Lynx point Siamese, a lynx point Himalayan and another black and whitedomestic short hair. All of whom my bullies get along with. I think the common reason people think bully breeds don't get along with cats is because these breeds have the "terrier" in them which makes them have a strong prey drive. There are bullies that do not get along with cats and I think that is mostly because they were never raised around them or were taught to "chase" things for some reason. Also there are people in this world that breed these breeds for utterly disgraceful reasons. They want those dogs to have an extremely strong prey drive so they will be a better fighter. These are traits they breed for and thus ruin the bully breeds.Anyway that is another topic I could write pages and pages about. With that being said, I believe that by being a responsible bully owner I would never put any of my dogs in a situation to fail. I know they are terrier breeds And would never leave them alone with my cats. I do trust them with my cats and children but I love them enough to do what I need to do to always keep them in my family...until we can change societys view, these breeds will always be blamed in any negative situation even if it's not their fault. Please everyone be a responsible, loving bully owner. These dogs would give their lives for us. We should do what we can to make sure they will always be allowed to live happy successful lives.