| About Camp Pit Bull |
| When I discovered the American Pit Bull Terrier at UKC obedience trials in 1990, I knew this was the breed I'd been looking for. After owning several dogs involved in obedience trials, agility, UKC/ADBA conformation and just being "dawgs", I became involved in breed rescue on a large scale, then as an individual dog foster. Some of my APBTs appear in breed books and I was interviewed by the author for the excellent yet unfortunately titled book "Pit Bulls for Dummies". Pit bull terriers are the only breed I want to share my life with, and I want to share their gift of tractability, tenacity, loyalty, intelligence, athletics and clownishness with those who understand their true bull and terrier nature. Only the most stable, friendly examples of the breed become Campers, who live with my active family (and with other experienced foster)s as if they were our pets and are treated to daily life and reality housemanners as we observe their behaviors and reactions to get the best adoptive match for their forever homes. Camp Pit Bull uses positive, kind, consistent training to bring out the best in our Campers. Our training philosophy follows the concept of "shaping" the desired behavior and "extinguishing" unwanted behavior, found in the styles of Patricia McConnell, Ian Dunbar and the Dogwise.com catalog. Most Campers stay with us for several months as we work together to find their likes, dislikes and motivations. We believe that every American Pit Bull Terrier has the ability to be an AKC Canine Good Citizen and hopefully a Therapy Dog and even a Search and Rescue Dog and beyond, thus showing the true versatility of the breed and its loyalty to the human race. Please consider a Camp Pit Bull fostered dog! Camp Pit Bull has worked with dogs from several well known local rescues and have great references to share. Wendy Mahoney |
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