Mocha’s Lesson of the Day: Don’t Agitate Pit Bulls

Today, Mocha learned a valuable lesson. Don’t agitate pit bulls.

At the dog park, Mocha can be a rambunctious fellah. He loves to run around so much that he’ll either chase other dogs, or incite them to chase him. It’s kind of funny to see. He’ll run around or paw at a dog, then leap away and look back to see if the dog is going to chase him. If the other dog doesn’t, he kinda makes a long face, then looks for another dog to incite.

Unfortunately, he hasn’t yet learned which dogs will put up with his crap and which dogs won’t.

We hit the big dog park today, just to mix it up a bit. Mocha can play a little too rough with the small dogs. Since he’s faster than most of them, he often overtakes and tramples them into the dirt. So I thought he needed to meet some big dogs.

The big dogs are usually faster than Mocha. So right away, he learned how the small dogs. How’s that dirt taste? Payback’s a bitch, huh boy?

Most big dogs are generally pretty chill, more so than yappy little dogs. I wonder why that is. The smaller the dog, the more insecure he is. Seems to be a general rule in the dog world.

When Mocha began agitating this large pit bull, the pit bull ignored him. “Go away, little one,” he seemed to say. But Mocha was relentless. He kept pawing and leaping away, pawing and leaping away. He even playfully snapped at the pit bull a few times.

Snapped? Nuh uh. Homey don’t play that.

The pit bull turned to face Mocha. As Mocha leapt away with a goofy grin on his face, the pit bull started after him. Oh boy, a chase! A short-lived one at that. The pit bull quickly caught up with Mocha, cornered him by a fence, and bit him on the neck. Not hard enough to break the skin, just hard enough to take Mocha down and show him who’s boss.

“Told you to stop bothering me,” the pit bull growled. Mocha whimpered as he was dragged into the ground with his tail between his legs.

And that’s what you get when you agitate pit bulls.