People At The Park Wouldn't Let Their Dogs Play With This Pittie

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People wouldn't let their dogs play with this pittie, so her dad did this ❤️

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00:00 (soft music)

00:02 I wanted to take Gigi to the park to help socialize her.

00:08 People were avoiding her.

00:11 They didn't want their dogs playing with her.

00:13 So she ended up playing by herself.

00:15 That just made me feel so awful,

00:17 watching my dog not being able to have fun with other dogs.

00:19 Sometimes when me and Gigi go on walks,

00:22 we'll see people cross the street,

00:24 but I never get like frustrated or mad

00:26 because in my mind, I'm just like, they don't know us.

00:28 They're going off something that they believe

00:30 but without even meeting us.

00:32 The biggest obstacle I would say that me and Gigi run into

00:35 is the prejudice and the stereotypes against both of us.

00:39 We've been told that I look like a typical Pitbull owner.

00:42 People reached out to me and said,

00:46 "Hey, have you ever thought about doing a meetup?"

00:48 Hey, we're about to have our first

00:50 very bully breed meetup.

00:51 Very excited.

00:52 Never thought we'd get to this point,

00:54 but I'm super stoked.

00:55 I know you are too.

00:57 Oh man, I can see it in your face.

00:59 I know that this is going to be our first time,

01:01 so we're going to learn through it and things.

01:03 The first meetup,

01:05 she didn't know what was going on obviously at first.

01:07 So she was just sitting patiently like,

01:08 "Oh, are we just people watching again?"

01:10 And then when new dogs showed up,

01:12 the tail was wagging, she was happy.

01:14 Everything you kind of hope it was,

01:20 it was like even better.

01:22 For me just to see how many people showed up

01:25 and how happy she was.

01:27 She was like, "Okay, cool.

01:27 "Now I do have a crowd that wants to play with me."

01:30 I could tell by the way Gigi started opening it up.

01:34 And I was like, "Okay, I did the right thing

01:36 "by starting these meetups."

01:37 I've had several different dogs,

01:40 but I've always had a special place in my heart for pit bulls.

01:42 I've always been around them.

01:43 And I know the stigma that they have.

01:45 So after the first meetup, I was just like,

01:47 "Okay, I think I want to do a little bit more around this."

01:50 And we've held a lot of different meetups now

01:56 in the San Diego area.

01:58 But my favorite part has been just seeing these dogs

02:02 grow in that space and find their comfort zone,

02:05 find their happy place with their humans.

02:07 In January, 2021, I was just like,

02:18 "Okay, my older lab was getting up there in age.

02:21 "And I wanted them to have a companion."

02:23 I met Gigi and she was just the sweetest,

02:26 kindest little dog.

02:27 So I brought her home

02:29 and it was like an immediate bond between them.

02:31 And then he passed away in December of last year.

02:36 In the first month or two after he passed,

02:38 it was probably the hardest time

02:40 because not only did I lose my first adult dog,

02:43 she lost the only dog that she's ever known.

02:46 So it was like a strong grief period for both of us.

02:49 That was a turning point of our relationship.

02:50 She started to trust me more.

02:52 We just got so used to sitting together,

02:54 taking in our surroundings and people watching.

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