PIT FLOOR

[DarkAgeKennel]

HI BOYS....I HAVE A QUESTION: HOW WAS THE FLOOR OF THE PIT IN THE OLD DAYS? IT WAS CARPET?

[OregonCamp]

Canvas

[DarkAgeKennel]

why carpet or canvas and not the earth?

[The Old Timer.]

it absorbs shock, a dogs head slapped against the earth could lose a tooth etc.

[evolutionkennels]

why carpet or canvas and not the earth?


Errrr.... Dirt is dirty.... See root word of dirty.. You would prefer dirt??? Really?? Have you ever bathed one after a show? Tended to wounds? You'd prefer to dig dirt out of every wound? It's a pretty silly question if you ask me.

[DarkAgeKennel]

Silly or not i have the right to ask whatever i want. ..i haven't offend anyone. ...i find curious that carpet is what people común use and don't other thing. .. Could be a lot of material. ... and dirt won't kill a dog. .. You clean the wound after the show and that's it. .. Not the end of the world either.

[The Old Timer.]

Errrr.... Dirt is dirty.... See root word of dirty.. You would prefer dirt??? Really?? Have you ever bathed one after a show? Tended to wounds? You'd prefer to dig dirt out of every wound? It's a pretty silly question if you ask me.

I don't see how its a silly question , hunting dogs, digging terriers work in earth and dirt, no big deal.

[BONEDADDY]

eneas, I think the biggest problem with a dirt floor is infection. If you are a person who knows how to prevent infection, then use dirt if you want to. Personally, I have seen people just put their dogs back up after just rinsing them off with a hose. That, in my opinion, is the WRONG answer. A person will take a good shower after sweating but yet just hose a dog off after a roll. I think the problem with dirt is probably traction and infection. Just me though.

[Officially Retired]

Silly or not i have the right to ask whatever i want. ..i haven't offend anyone. ...i find curious that carpet is what people común use and don't other thing. .. Could be a lot of material. ... and dirt won't kill a dog. .. You clean the wound after the show and that's it. .. Not the end of the world either.

Actually, infected dirt can kill a dog.

Look up Enterococcus faecium or Enterococcus faecalis ...

Sounds like you have zero pit experience to me to be asking these questions.

Carpet also affords traction ...

Jack

[ragedog10]

I agree Jack who the hell wants their dog rolling around in the dirt? Yis Ole Man

[DarkAgeKennel]

experience is not the point here...and i wont come here and star talking about my pit experience, that is more stupid. i have seen dogs working in the mud without so much drama. At the end you wash the dog and thats it, give him the necessary aftercare and no big deal. hunting dogs dosnt go to a carpet field to catch a wild board, they fill in mud without any problem. Of course that there are more possibility that a wound would infecct in dirt than in carpet (a clean carpet and anyway infection posibility is everywhere) but i think at the end isnt it a judgment that if i roll a dog in the dirt he will get inffectted and die. I just want to know the reasson for use carpet and dont think the infected wound is the only and big reasson..there are more dogs dead everyday because poor aftercare than because the dirt and about the traction i dont think there is more traccion than earth...i dont see how a carpet would give more traccion than earth.

In fact a ray can kill a dog too.

[DarkAgeKennel]

I dont say earth is better, but dont think the question is so stupid as you say. Anyway everyone have an opinion.

[bolero]

in the old days they used canvas and i always heard lemm say that canvas makes for a better fight over carpet and i never understood why does any one no that answer

[The Old Timer.]

in the 60s lots of matches we had were on low cut grass with the pit made from straw bales, BOLERO the thing about canvas or tarp, is you could wash it use it to cover other things from the rain, with wet blooded carpet after awhile it smells like cat piss, and can be used as evidence. if the pile is to big in some carpets dogs nails can get caught in it, and with carpet there is always nearly two pieces thrown down overlapping some times, but whats good for the goose is good for the gander. :hatsoff:

[Pit Bull Committed]

in the 60s lots of matches we had were on low cut grass with the pit made from straw bales, BOLERO the thing about canvas or tarp, is you could wash it use it to cover other things from the rain, with wet blooded carpet after awhile it smells like cat piss, and can be used as evidence. if the pile is to big in some carpets dogs nails can get caught in it, and with carpet there is always nearly two pieces thrown down overlapping some times, but whats good for the goose is good for the gander. :hatsoff:
Interesting point old timer. :)

[evolutionkennels]

Actually, infected dirt can kill a dog.

Look up Enterococcus faecium or Enterococcus faecalis ...

Sounds like you have zero pit experience to me to be asking these questions.

Carpet also affords traction ...

Jack

Exactly

[CrazyRed]

experience is not the point here...and i wont come here and star talking about my pit experience, that is more stupid. i have seen dogs working in the mud without so much drama. At the end you wash the dog and thats it, give him the necessary aftercare and no big deal. hunting dogs dosnt go to a carpet field to catch a wild board, they fill in mud without any problem. Of course that there are more possibility that a wound would infecct in dirt than in carpet (a clean carpet and anyway infection posibility is everywhere) but i think at the end isnt it a judgment that if i roll a dog in the dirt he will get inffectted and die. I just want to know the reasson for use carpet and dont think the infected wound is the only and big reasson..there are more dogs dead everyday because poor aftercare than because the dirt and about the traction i dont think there is more traccion than earth...i dont see how a carpet would give more traccion than earth.

In fact a ray can kill a dog too.

I think the question has been answered but I assure you the dirt can be more dangerous than you think. Furthermore while Boar hungting is an exciting experience and for some dogmen an alternate for them that are no longer competitive it's truly not the same thing. It would compare to a man who doesn't smoke crack anymore but smokes cigarettes. While he might be getting some compensation it is not the same results or high that he got with the real deal.. Grabbing a running boar or a boar in defense mode that is trying to get away from you while rolling in the mud is not the same as Spike wrestling with you and letting the fur fly..

[SFOD]

I would tend to believe it would have nothing or very little to do with shock absorption due to the thin nature of canvas and carpet more so to due with traction.

[gameday]

I dont say earth is better, but dont think the question is so stupid as you say. Anyway everyone have an opinion.

Why would you want to do dogs on the dirt???..when you can just roll some carpet out,and avoid the dog having dirt and mud all over them!!
Its pretty simply,and basic common sense...