tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58671097919132175642024-03-12T17:39:02.677-07:00The Canine Game ChangerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-13177566960284898662015-08-21T18:22:00.000-07:002015-09-13T23:57:10.738-07:00Misunderstood <div style="text-align: center;">
Misunderstood Pit Bulls Killing Coyote. </div>
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Misunderstood Pit Bull Puppy Kills Fox Puppy<br />
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Pit Bull Tries To Attack Sea Lions<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-51614910538226067172015-05-16T09:06:00.000-07:002015-05-16T20:46:04.531-07:00By the percentages--fatal pitbull attacks thus far in 2015<span style="font-size: large;">As of Saturday, 5/15, 136 days into the 2015 year, <b>eight</b> Americans are dead <i>[this averages out to a death every 17 days]</i> <a href="http://www.fatalpitbullattacks.com/">as a result of<b> pitbull </b>attacks</a>;</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brayden Wilson, 2 months old</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kenneth Ford, 79</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">De'trick Johnson, 36</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Roy Higgenbotham Jr., 62</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">TayLynn DeVaughn, 2</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Malaki Mildward, 7</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Declan Moss, 18 months old</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eugene Smith, 87</span></li>
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<b>The Victims;</b></h3>
50% are children, of which;<br />
25% are <10yo<br />
25% = toddlers<br />
50% = infants<br />
12.5% are adults<br />
37.5% are senior citizens<br />
100% were found <b><i>not</i></b> to have provoked the attacking dog(s) in any way<br />
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The Dogs;</h3>
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25% neutered</div>
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75% spay/neuter status undisclosed (it's not uncommon for this piece of information to fall to the back burner in reporting)</div>
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50% male</div>
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12.5% female</div>
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37.5% were mixed sex (multiple dogs per attack) attacks</div>
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87.5% were household/family pets<br />
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Non-Fatal But Serious Pitbull Attacks</h2>
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<a href="http://17barks.blogspot.in/2015/04/dog-attack-report-1q-2015.html">From January 2nd to April 6th of this year (an 84 day time period), 227 Americans have been seriously injured/maimed.</a> These attacks often result in permanent and disabling injuries, hospitalizations, deglovings, and life flights--a far cry from the mild snap and release bites from other [i.e. companion/non-bloodsport] breeds. This averages out to (rounded) three people being seriously attacked by pitbulls <i><b>every day.</b></i></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-49662316568752139912015-01-10T17:27:00.000-07:002015-01-10T17:27:07.414-07:00Pit bulls are a COMMUNITY problem<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">community problem</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A fool sayeth; 'Don't like pit bulls, don't get a pit bull. End of story.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Evading the pit bull issue is, unfortunately, not as simple as simply avoiding owning one...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Even if you personally choose not to own pit bulls or seek out interaction with them, does not mean you will be free of encounters with these animals. They can--and frequently DO--invade the lives of others without invitation, with frequently bloody results. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pit bulls are a COMMUNITY problem. Their scope is far beyond the immediate home that chooses them. 'Responsible ownership' is a smoke-screen phrase that is meaningless; people have been talking about 'responsible ownership' going on two decades now and it has done nothing--it IS NOT WORKING. Attacks, disfigurement, dismemberment, fatalities are at a snowballing rate. This disturbing trend is only blunted and even reversed in areas which have enacted BSL, tellingly. Communities as a whole are subject to the presence of pit bulls... the proof is all around us, one need only open your eyes to look at it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These dogs are so uniquely intrusive they INVADE homes to maul and kill. I'm not kidding. A compilation of such attacks can be found here; <a href="http://safetybeforebulldogs.blogspot.com/2014/03/collection-of-home-invasion-pit-bull.html">http://safetybeforebulldogs.blogspot.com/2014/03/collection-of-home-invasion-pit-bull.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 'pit bull attack trigger' page at <a href="http://dogsbite.org/">dogsbite.org</a>, issued as an illustration of the absurdity and extremity to which pit bull apologia will sink, also markedly encompasses the breadth of the issue--the scope of pit bull reach, when communities can no longer engage any of the following without risking pit bull attack;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">being an animal control officer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">being a mail carrier</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">being a gas worker</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">being a landscaper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">being a police officer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">being a public works employee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">being in a wheelchair</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">being pregnant </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">borrowing a blender</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">breaking the ice out of a water bowl </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">disciplining your dog</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">driving a vehicle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">dropping a glass</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">falling down</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">feeding the dog</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">getting a rabies vaccination </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">getting neutered</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">getting off a bus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">getting the mail</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">getting the newspaper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">handing someone a phone </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">hanging decorations</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">having a dog on your lap</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">having a seizure</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">having a smoke</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">hearing an argument</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">hearing thunder </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">holding a clipboard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">holding a mailbag</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">holding a stuffed animal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">hopping off a couch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">jumping on a trampoline</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">letting your dog out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">mowing your lawn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">opening a car door</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">opening your front door</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">playing in your backyard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">playing in your front yard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">playing keep-a-way </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">playing on a playground</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">playing on a swing set</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">playing with a tennis ball</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">reaching for your purse<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">reading a bible </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">remodeling your home</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">running from bees</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">saving a family from a fire </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">seeing a cat run up tree</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">seeing a dog inside a house</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">seeing a horse</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">seeing a squirrel run up tree</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">seeing a leashed dog</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">seeing an unleashed dog</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">sitting on a bed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">sitting on your spouse's lap</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">showing your spouse affection</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">sitting in a stroller</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">sitting in a tire swing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">sitting in a wagon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">sitting on your porch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">slipping on ice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">smelling "baby formula" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">standing in your backyard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">standing in your garage</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">stepping on an ant pile</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">taking down a Christmas tree </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the act of bicycling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the act of driving</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the act of gardening</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the act of sex</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the act of jogging</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the act of sleeping</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the sound of clapping</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the sound of screaming</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">taking out the trash</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">walking on a beach</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">walking down a path</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">walking down a road</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">walking down a sidewalk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">walking a snack sized dog</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">undergoing dialysis </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">unloading bags from a car</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">watching TV</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">waiting for a bus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">wearing a ponytail</span><br />
<a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2008/08/triggers-what-prompts-pit-bull-to.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">http://blog.dogsbite.org/2008/08/triggers-what-prompts-pit-bull-to.html</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Each 'trigger' is clickable and leads to a real world scenario, evidenced with third party sources and citations.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The following are a sampling of attack stories from the last month alone, in which people and pets going about their daily business were attacked and affected by a pit bull infested community... whether they were taking a walk, riding a scooter, going about their jobs, taking out the trash, fishing, hiking, shopping, attending a birthday party, crossing an intersection, horseback riding, playing in their yard, or walking the dog. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Three members of a Darien family remain in the hospital after police said they were all attacked by a pit bull.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Family members said the young boy was taking the trash out when a neighbor’s dog attacked him. Police said it was a very violent situation that left three people severely injured.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">“This is a tragedy,” said McIntosh County Sheriff Stephen Jessup. “It happens every now and then.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">McIntosh County investigators said this is one of the worst dog biting cases they’ve ever seen. On Monday, 11-year-old Darius Wingate was attacked in his yard. According to police, the next door neighbors had just let out their three dogs: two pit bulls and an American bulldog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The victims’ family said the dogs began attacking Wingate. When his mom and sister heard him screaming, they ran to the rescue, but they were also severely bitten.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">“Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, especially with Darius,” said Jessup.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/three-recovering-darien-dog-attack/</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">A police officer investigating a theft at a home on South 46th Street was attacked by a pit bull on Tuesday, shooting the dog after it bit him in the hand, authorities said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The dog is expected to make a full recovery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/officer-bitten-pitbull-shoots-dog-police-say/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/officer-bitten-pitbull-shoots-dog-police-say/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Banks and West assert that on July 26, 2014 they were attending a birthday party with their child held at a home owned by Thompson located and Castillo. The plaintiffs claim that while at the party a pit bull attacked their child causing serious injuries including permanent scarring and disfigurement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">A DISABLED woman has appealed for witnesses after her terrier was mauled by two “pit bulls”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The woman’s desperate attempts to flee the dogs on her mobility scooter failed and the attack left her pet, Skye, with blood pouring from her mouth and leg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The victim, who we have agreed not to name, said the attack happened while she was riding her scooter on the trail between the Hythe and East Street, Colchester.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Skye, her Cairn terrier, was on her lead on the platform of the scooter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">She said: “I had just come under the railway bridge when I saw a man with two pit bull-type dogs running loose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">“I stopped until he got hold of them, then I went as fast as I could to get away from the dogs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">“About halfway along the allotments, I saw in the mirror the dogs coming up fast behind me. The next thing, one of them grabbed my dog by the mouth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/international_attacks/pet-mobility-scooter-savaged-pit-bull-attack/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/international_attacks/pet-mobility-scooter-savaged-pit-bull-attack/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Two pit bulls are being held at the dog pound after attacking and killing another dog on New Year’s Day in Peachland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The animals were running loose on Ponderosa Drive when they encountered Jeff Clarke as he was out walking his dog, Charley.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">In a vicious attack lasting for several minutes, the pit bulls repeatedly bit Charley while Clarke and a neighbour frantically tried to separate the dogs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">“It was a horrible, brutal thing,” Clarke said Sunday. “The pit bulls were relentless. We were hitting and kicking them, but they weren’t letting go of Charley no matter what.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/international_attacks/dog-dies-pit-bull-attack/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/international_attacks/dog-dies-pit-bull-attack/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">A DISTRAUGHT animal lover has pleaded for help to catch the owner of a dangerous dog that viciously attacked her pet greyhound in Clacton town centre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Deryn Ellis’s four-year old greyhound Corky was attacked by a Staffordshire bull terrier or pitbull-type dog in front of shocked sales shoppers in Pier Avenue at 11am on Boxing Day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Corky suffered more than a dozen small wounds, three severe bites and another that could have been fatal without the swift actions of a quick-thinking bystander.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Mrs Ellis, of Jaywick, was also bitten on the hand during the attack, but was not seriously hurt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The owner of the other dog ran off following the incident.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/international_attacks/greyhound-lucky-alive-attack/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/international_attacks/greyhound-lucky-alive-attack/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">A man guided his pit bull toward a 6-year-old boy and his father at a busy Kips Bay intersection, standing by and watching as the dog bit the pair and left them bleeding, the NYPD said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Mister Parrish, 36, was arrested and charged with releasing his 15-month-old pup Boss from a leash and “steering” the dog toward a 41-year-old man and his son at Lexington Avenue and East 28th Street at 10:30 p.m. Dec. 27, police said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Parrish had been waiting to cross the intersection when he noticed the young boy standing next to him looking frightened of Boss. Parrish told the child, “It’s only a dog,” police said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">As the father and son began crossing the street, Parrish set the dog loose and encouraged it to go after the pair, police said. He then stood by, watching as the pit bull bit the man’s arm and the 6-year-old’s leg, leaving them bleeding, police said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/pit-bull-bites-6-year-old-boy-father-owner-watches/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/pit-bull-bites-6-year-old-boy-father-owner-watches/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The pit bull terrier and another dog inflicted horrific wounds on 14-year-old Lakeland terrier cross Paddy as he was being walked in woodlands by his owners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">When the two dogs attacked, Paddy’s owners tried to beat them away from their beloved pet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Despite their efforts, they could not prevent Paddy being seriously injured. He was later put to sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/international_attacks/illegal-fighting-dog-destroyed-lethal-attack-family-pet/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/international_attacks/illegal-fighting-dog-destroyed-lethal-attack-family-pet/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">A Philadelphia police officer was injured Sunday afternoon when a pit bull got loose on a Brewerytown street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The dog was attacking civilians and officers near 30th Street and Girard Avenue shortly before 1:30 p.m., police said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Officers discharged their weapons and Tasers at the pit bull. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the dog was killed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/officer-injured-pit-bull-attack-brewerytown/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/officer-injured-pit-bull-attack-brewerytown/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The 42-year-old man said he was returning from buying cigarettes when he noticed a pit bull that was loose in the backyard of an alley at 50 S. Hedges St. The man stepped back, but the dog had already spotted him, according to a Dayton police report.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The man said the dog has previously chased him, and that he started to run and was trying to climb over a fence when the dog caught up to him, biting him in the right forearm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/pit-bull-chases-bites-dayton-man-alley/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/pit-bull-chases-bites-dayton-man-alley/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">A little boy in Campbell is recovering after being bit by a pit bull. It happened Sunday afternoon in the 800 block of Devitt. Police said a man was taking care of someone else’s dog and did not have it on a leash. The dog then bit an eight-year-old on the leg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/man-charged-dog-bite-case/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/man-charged-dog-bite-case/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">A simple traffic stop involving a bicycle in Lehigh Acres led to a Lee County deputy firing off a shot to protect one of his own. It happened near Gilbert Avenue just west of Gunnery Road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Deputies tell us they attempted to stop a suspect on a bicycle outside of the Dollar General store on Gunnery Road for riding without a light. That’s when the suspect ran away from deputies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">A helicopter and K9 unit were called in to help search for the suspect. While tracking the suspect in a wooded area, a K9 unit was attacked by an unleashed Pit bull. That’s when a deputy in pursuit shot the Pit bull.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/pit-bull-shot-lee-county-deputy/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/pit-bull-shot-lee-county-deputy/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">A leash and an empty dog collar sit on the ground after an attack that wounded this Golden Retriever named Nala and this Australian shepherd named Oz. Nala got the worst of it with this bloody gash near her stomach. Their owner Patrick McWilliams was taking his dogs for a walk around his neighborhood yesterday afternoon when he says two dogs–that looked to be pit bulls came out of nowhere and attacked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">“I was basically screaming for a couple of minutes because I’d get one of them off and another one would attack,” says Patrick McWilliams. McWilliams says one of the attacking dogs bit him on the leg. Neighbors like Bob Kidd heard the commotion and tried to help McWilliams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">“And then I ran out to see what I could do and he was biting him really bad so I went to get a two by four and ran out after him,” says Kidd. Nala tracked a trail of blood through the garage when she came home. As bad as her injuries look in these pictures both of Patrick McWillaims’ dogs had surgery and are expected to come home Friday. The family shared their story because they hoped by sharing it, it would prevent something like this from ever happening again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/vicious-dog-attack-loxley/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/vicious-dog-attack-loxley/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Animal control officers are trying to determine if a pit bull that viciously attacked a horse in the East County is the same dog that attacked a rider three years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Stacey Russell and a friend were out riding on Quail Canyon Road in unincorporated El Cajon Sunday afternoon when a loose pit bull came charging from a house. Russell said the dog lunged at her horse’s neck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">While Russell was down on the ground, she said the dog chased her horse for more than half a mile. Fellow rider Cheryl Paz took off after the dog. They said the owner was yelling after the dog and then someone came by in a car, grabbed the dog and sped off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/horse-rider-survive-vicious-pit-bull-attack/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/horse-rider-survive-vicious-pit-bull-attack/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Horseback riding and horse fancying in a community with pit bulls is a dangerous and costly hobby; <a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/blog-posts-dog-attacks-horses.php">http://www.dogsbite.org/blog-posts-dog-attacks-horses.php</a> Horses are such a common target of pit bulls that attacks fill several [out-of-date pages] of their own <a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/dogsbite-newsroom-2008-dog-attacks-on-livestock-and-horses.php">http://www.dogsbite.org/dogsbite-newsroom-2008-dog-attacks-on-livestock-and-horses.php</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Livestock are another imperiled venture in pit bull domains. While you may hear pit bull fanatics hastily mention that celebrities like Babe Ruth possessed pit bulls (as if that were an indication of wholesome value; many celebrities also possessed drugs and other vices...), what you won't hear about are instances such as... when The Great Bambino's pit bulls got loose, they killed one neighbor's chickens, and on another occasion decimated a herd--yes a herd--of another neighbor's cattle. <a href="http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2013/02/george-herman-ruth-jr-aka-babe-ruth-aka.html">http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2013/02/george-herman-ruth-jr-aka-babe-ruth-aka.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Two pit bulls and a Rottweiler have run loose around Joliet’s North Reed Street and attacked at least four other dogs, viciously mauling one, residents said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">“Our fear is a child” will fall prey to the pack of dogs, said Doreen Swanson, who said her own two pets were beset by the hounds from Reed Street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/joliet-residents-tell-vicious-dogs-terrorizing-north-reed-street/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/joliet-residents-tell-vicious-dogs-terrorizing-north-reed-street/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">What started off as a friendly hello to a couple of pit bulls turned into painful injuries for Tom Kuppers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">“The bigger of the two jumped up and grabbed hold of my arm. And it was the right forearm. Of course, I’m yelling at it. I think what I must have done was yanked it out of its mouth… it kept coming at me so I threw my bag at them.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Kuppers says he was in shock, but spoke to the owner of the dogs who was apologetic but left without leaving contact information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">“He just kinda slowly walked out of the store. I didn’t see him leave.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/international_attacks/metro-vancouver-man-wants-action-pit-bull-attack/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/international_attacks/metro-vancouver-man-wants-action-pit-bull-attack/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Simply shopping in pet friendly stores in pit bull communities could prove dangerous to your children and dangerous/fatal to your pets; a list of Petsmart and Petsco pitbull attacks: <a href="http://safetybeforebulldogs.blogspot.com/2014/09/list-of-pit-bull-attacks-inside.html">http://safetybeforebulldogs.blogspot.com/2014/09/list-of-pit-bull-attacks-inside.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Yesterday while my family and I were fishing at Southgates there was a few people there with a big brown Pit Bull looking dog which KILLED our little Maltese Shitzu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The owner took off in a hurry without leaving any details whatsoever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">My fiancee and young children are devastated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/international_attacks/dog-dies-new-year-attack/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/international_attacks/dog-dies-new-year-attack/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Three people required medical treatment after they were attacked and bitten by a pair of roaming pit bulls on Rails to Trails Monday evening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The victims, two brothers, aged 12 and 6, and a 37-year old man unrelated to the pair, were on the walking path near Second Street when the dogs attacked them. All three victims suffered bite wounds to their legs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">It was the second vicious dog incident of the afternoon for Taft Police. Earlier, they responded to the 600 block of Lucard where a dog ran into a woman’s house after apparently killing a dog across the street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/three-attacked-bitten-pit-bulls-rails-trails/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/three-attacked-bitten-pit-bulls-rails-trails/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The third dog accused of being involved in attack that injured a couple and killed their dog was captured Tuesday morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Macon-Bibb Animal Control says a neighbor caught the dog. After nearly a day of searching , the neighbor put the dog in a crate in his backyard after it apparently killed their cat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/macon-pet-owner-responds-dog-attack-injures-couple/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/macon-pet-owner-responds-dog-attack-injures-couple/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">A New Castle County police dog is recovering after being attacked by a pit bull in a local park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">“Monty” a 6-year-old German Shepard with the New Castle County Police Department suffered minor injuries when he was attacked by a gray pit bull while officers were responding to a call in Sellers Park on Monday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/pit-bull-attacks-delaware-police-dog/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/pit-bull-attacks-delaware-police-dog/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">A Massena village justice has ordered a pit bull to be euthanized after it bit a neighbor on the leg earlier this month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Village police had charged William P. Rochefort, 20, of 107 Stoughton Ave., Massena, with allowing his dog to run at large, harboring a dangerous dog and having an unlicensed dog Dec. 8 following an investigation into an incident that allegedly occurred earlier in the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/judge-orders-pit-bull-euthanized-dog-bites-neighbor-second-time/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/judge-orders-pit-bull-euthanized-dog-bites-neighbor-second-time/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">On Saturday, December 27, 10-year-old Bernard Molnar was viciously attacked by two Pit Bulls while riding a scooter he had received for Christmas in front of a home in Enid, Oklahoma.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The dogs escaped from a fenced yard at a nearby residence and attacked the child at approximately 3:30 p.m. in the 1700 block of East Walnut, according to the police report.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Christina Dettling said it took four people to free the boy from the Pit Bulls, but not before her son was seriously injured. She said a neighbor, Patrick Prall, was the first to discover her son being mauled and he beat the dogs off with Bernard’s scooter as she called 911. She credits Patrick with saving her son’s life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Although Bernie is feeling better, Dettling said, “His right arm is broken, where the dog bit down, crushed both bones and shook him. He’s got a horseshoe-shaped mark on the back of his head — it’s got 10 staples in it and it went all the way down to the skull.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">She added that, as well as cuts that needed stitches and bruises all over his body, her son has “…a 3-inch gash on his upper right butt cheek that’s got three staples. They had to sew a portion of his right ear back on. He’s got a fractured nose. “His face and his ear and his arm (are) the absolute worst; and the back of his head.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/pit-bulls-attack-10-year-old-boy/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/pit-bulls-attack-10-year-old-boy/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The incident took place at about 5 p.m. near the intersection with Australian Avenue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/two-boys-5-and-7-hospitalized-after-being-attacked-by-pit-bulls-in-west-palm-beach-www-palmbeachpost-com/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/two-boys-5-and-7-hospitalized-after-being-attacked-by-pit-bulls-in-west-palm-beach-www-palmbeachpost-com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/sdpd-officer-hospitalized-by-dog-bite-nbc-7-san-diego/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/sdpd-officer-hospitalized-by-dog-bite-nbc-7-san-diego/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/police-investigating-dog-attack-in-st-albans-mychamplainvalley-com/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/police-investigating-dog-attack-in-st-albans-mychamplainvalley-com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Fall River police and animal control officers caught the dogs after they had been running through a wooded area. The dogs are being held in quarantine for 10 days, said Fall River police Lt. Ronald Furtado.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/three-people-attacked-by-pack-of-pit-bulls-on-the-loose-in-fall-river-two-hospitalized-news-the-herald-news-fall-river-ma-fall-river-ma/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/three-people-attacked-by-pack-of-pit-bulls-on-the-loose-in-fall-river-two-hospitalized-news-the-herald-news-fall-river-ma-fall-river-ma/</a></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-56276206249944108012014-12-31T18:53:00.000-07:002014-12-31T22:46:46.215-07:00What is BSL?<div style="text-align: center;">
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BSL stands for <b>breed-specific legislation</b>. It need not apply to banning dangerous dogs but is also a useful tool applied in managing humane breeding standards in physiologically problematic breeds, the care and management of sporting breeds, etc.. </div>
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As is most relevant here, breed specific legislation is legislation and ordinances passed to regulate or 'ban' dangerous dog breeds, such as pit bulls and other blood-sport dogs from the mollossar group.</div>
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Some common misconceptions or even outright deceptions propagated by the anti-BSL camp are;</div>
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<b>Myth:</b> dogs are identified arbitrarily by sight, and by 'random' professionals that could have little or even no experience with identifying dog breeds./Only a DNA test can verify breed.</div>
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While it is true that more sophisticated methods--such as DNA tests--cannot distinguish 'pit bull' as an individual breed... (in fact, many fanciers laugh about the fact that their purebreds/prize winner DNA tests come back with absurdly wrong results, KNOWING their dogs are full well not just pit bull, but take pride in them being the epitome thereof), pit bulls are as readily identifiable as any long-standing, distinguishable breed by the cluster of lists identifying specific traits and body ratios according to UKC standards (or in the AKC under the guise 'American Staffordshire Terrier').</div>
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In reality, in areas with pit bull bans, a dog in question must be identified by a cluster of attributes by animal experts like veterinarians, animal control, and shelter workers. For example; in Miami Dade County, there is a 47 point identification for establishing a dog as 'pit bull'.</div>
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<b>Myth; </b>BSL punishes 'good owners'. Many people don't realize this, but BSL doesn't equate an outright ban. In many BSL areas, breed-specific ordinances may be a combination of any of the following;</div>
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All of these are reasonable parameters for responsible dangerous dog ownership. Truly responsible owners would be following such measures <i>already</i> and only those deviant and seeking to avoid responsibility for the management of their dogs would feel 'punished'. Many owners of other breeds, including toy breeds, already take such precautions because they understand that, much like driving a car, you must assume responsibility for ALL aspects of a privilege to maintain such privilege. "Insurance/licensing/etc. punishes good drivers" is not an excuse or logical reason to throw automotive regulations out the window.</div>
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Dangerous dog ownership is a privilege, not a right. Car ownership is a privilege, not a right. A car must be inspected, insured, and up to safety protocols; and these are inanimate objects with no free will of movement. That free will of movement is what makes it all the more important to appropriately maintain a high-risk animal. </div>
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There is also the animal itself to consider; the benefits of neutering and spaying are myriad, and a dog that gets loose is subject itself to dangers; toxic substances in the environment it may consume, harsh elements, abduction, being hit by cars, etc.. Ergo, proper containment and micro-chipping are preventative and crucial tools in safe-guarding a pet, respectively.</div>
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<b>Myth;</b> BSL hurts/kills innocent dogs. Hysterical anti-BSL lobbyists rail and compare BSL to the holocaust, invoking images of dogs being rounded up and euthanized en masse. The reality is; in the history of BSL, there has never been a mass round-up and euthanasia of banned breeds. When a ban is enacting, existing dogs are grandfathered into the area, and can be kept till the end of their natural lives according to the city's protocol--meaning adhering to micro-chipping, insurance, etc within a reasonable period. Owners that refuse to comply with such measures are issued a generous grace period in which to re-home their pet elsewhere. That same grace period is generally given to those who relocate into the area with banned breeds, as well.</div>
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In reality, <a href="http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/09/10/obsessed-about-pit-bulls/">BSL can save innocent dogs</a>; "[from] ANIMALS 24-7 does not believe that animal rights, animal welfare, or even just being kind to animals is advanced by protecting backyard breeders of fighting dogs from the passage of effective breed-specific legislation to prevent the births of a million pit bulls per year who will repeatedly flunk out of homes and be killed at the average age of 18 months." In areas with BSL, the rate of euthanized dogs and shelter overcrowding drops dramatically, easing the burden on taxpayer shelters and Animal Control. <a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2010/06/cities-with-successful-pit-bull-laws.html">For example, in Aurora, Colorado;</a></div>
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"...the dogs placed a tremendous burden on city staff. According to city documents, before the ordinance was enacted in 2005, up to 70 percent of kennels in the Aurora Animal Shelter were occupied by pit bulls with pending court disposition dates or with no known owner. That number is now only 10 to 20 percent of kennels."</div>
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<b>Myth;</b> BSL doesn't work. Mountains of evidence in areas with long-standing BSL beg to differ; <a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2010/06/cities-with-successful-pit-bull-laws.html">here's a list of cities with successful BSL</a> and the relevant data accompanying each. A few snippets;</div>
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<i>Police records show Sioux City police officers responded to 37 percent fewer dog bites in 2013 than they did in 2007, the year before the breed ban was passed. During that time, the number of reported bites declined each year but one.<br />In 2004, the last full year before the ban, there were 984 licensed pit bulls in the city and 168 reported bites. Last year there were 501 pit bulls registered in Toronto, and just 13 bites. That’s right — the number of reported bites went from 168 to 13.</i></blockquote>
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<i>The ordinance the city adopted prohibits pit bulls and mixes of the breed, as well as any other vicious or dangerous animals, from being in the city. In the almost 20 years since it was adopted, Antigo has had no attacks, no maulings, and no dogs killed by pit bulls or other dogs.</i></div>
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<i>According to statistics taken from the Springfield-Greene County Health Department, as reported in the News-Leader March 12, for the three-year period beginning in 2004, there were 42 "vicious" animal attacks recorded in the jurisdiction covered. After passing the local ordinance banning or strictly controlling the ownership of pit bull or pit bull types, the number of attacks has dropped dramatically. For the five-year period from 2007-2011, there was a total of 14.</i></blockquote>
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<i>[Since the city adopted mandatory spay/neuter BSL for pit bulls] San Francisco has impounded 14 percent fewer pit bulls and euthanized 29 percent fewer - which is a "significant decrease," said Rebecca Katz, director of the city's Animal Care and Control department. </i></blockquote>
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<i>Provincial laws that banned 'pit bulls,' defined as pit bulls, Staffordshire terriers, American Staffordshire terriers, American pit bull terriers and dogs resembling them took effect in August 2005. Existing dogs were required to be sterilized, and leashed and muzzled in public.</i></div>
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<b>Myth;</b> BSL is too costly to enforce. Again, the existing data disproves this. Pit bull lobbyist Karen Delise's 'BSL cost calculator' is skewed against BSL by exaggerating enforcement costs and failing to account for the broader scope of the issue. BSL has existed for decades in many jurisdictions with no catastrophic fiscal ramifications. Additionally, dramatic reductions in euthanasia rates and shelter overcrowding reduce the strain on city coffers. </div>
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The community is more productive in the absence of debilitating, brutal pit bull attacks. Unlike most other breeds, a pit bull attack often entails life-long disfigurement and disability, both physically and mentally. This creates people dependent upon the system for life, which would otherwise have become or continued to be productive citizens contributing to their communities. </div>
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The cost in quality of life, perhaps one of the most important factors, is incalculable. Communities are irrefutably better off when the citizens aren't held hostage in their own homes by dangerous dogs that frequently defy containment, with citizens intact, possessing all their limbs and body parts and faculties to enjoy and shape the environment around them.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-53684141150500616142014-12-29T18:39:00.001-07:002014-12-29T18:39:00.867-07:00Taken Where They Slept<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>from a story on a <a href="http://globalnews.ca/news/1745926/family-dog-euthanized-after-mauling-16-day-old-baby/">16 day old baby girl critically mauled by the family pitbull/rottweiler mix</a></i></span></div>
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It well may be found that the dog simply approached the baby wherever she was sleeping and inserted itself into the infant's space to maul her. If you read about infant maulings and fatalities, you will find multiple instances of pit bulls attacking a baby while he/she slept in their crib, on a bed, in a bassinet, in a baby swing, in a car seat, or even sleeping next to his/her parents. <a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/dogsbite-search-results.php?cx=003395341087663039786%3Aze_5rreyew4&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=baby+attacked&sa.x=0&sa.y=0">http://www.dogsbite.org/dogsbite-search-results.php…</a></div>
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<li>9 day old Daniel Smith was mauled to death in his crib by the family's 9yo pitbull </li>
<li>15 day old Darius Tilman was mauled to death his crib </li>
<li>2 week Brian Lillis was sleeping in his car seat when the family pitbull mauled him to death </li>
<li>A 5 day old girl was mauled to death in her bassinet by the family pit bull </li>
<li>A 13 day old baby was killed in his baby swing by the family pitbull </li>
<li>Newborn Thomas Carter Jr. was killed by the family pitbulls while sleeping next to his father </li>
<li>8 week old Iopeka Liptak was mauled to death by the 5yo family pitbull while sleeping on his mother's bed </li>
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If you read about pit bull attacks in general, you will notice a disturbing pattern of just how stealthy silent these dogs can be. These dogs can be so quiet that a person need not be impaired or intoxicated in any way to miss the sounds of attack; and in the case of no doubt sleep-disturbed parents of a newborn, it can only be more so.<a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dogsbite.org%2Fdogsbite-search-results.php%3Fcx%3D003395341087663039786%253Aze_5rreyew4%26cof%3DFORID%253A11%26ie%3DUTF-8%26q%3Dpit%2Bbull%2Battack%26sa.x%3D0%26sa.y%3D0&h=ZAQE74TSU&enc=AZM2tuoiDr_PzVEXLgjm5-wgsS_9UaA3wb3hbFKiJ3igmMM3YXK66K_bPuJDk6RZJg7wCNx2hn3QedYmvuL7TpzdtVG8ui_xKFRAwo05ej7bWNhFkD0cWSy8EtcimjndbwknImsbOHfW1dnmCa0QyLK_&s=1">http://www.dogsbite.org/dogsbite-search-results.php…</a></div>
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It's possible there is some wrong doing on the part of the parents in this case (we just don't have enough information), but please, please, remember... the overwhelming common factor in pit bull attacks are not environment or stimuli, but the dogs themselves. Nutters love to say 'get educated'. I did, and the truth the led me here. </div>
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Please do venture forth and form your opinion on this; but read ALL sides, and pay attention to the victims, not just the dogs. That is where you will be able to discern for yourself just what makes this breed dangerous; look for common factors, if any, compare and contrast the information from pro pit bull, victim/awareness advocacy, and verifiably neutral sites (the NCRC and ASPCA are not neutral) and<a href="http://lifehacker.com/how-to-train-your-mind-to-think-critically-and-form-you-1516998286"> think critically.</a></div>
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As so eloquently illustrated in Jeff Borchardt's editorial <a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/2014/12/hounded/">'Hounded'</a>, and as is the experience of virtually every outspoken dangerous dog victim and awareness advocate (including meself!), nutters love to cyber-stalk a person and pick apart their lives in a ceaseless smear campaign. They attack anything and everything they can; the way a person dresses, talks, where they work, where they live, what pets they have, how many children they have, their weight, their diet, their skin/hair, their religious views, their hobbies, political views, past experiences and mistakes, etc.. </div>
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They deserve no further recognition, but nutters run various hate pages on Facebook and blogs, updated daily (so I hear, I avoid them for the plague and garbage they are, and though I know you mean well, folks who contact me about this crap, I follow the golden rule when it comes to bullies--ignore them, do not feed them, they want your energy and attention, they desperately need validation of any kind). </div>
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They do these things in a puerile attempt to raze a person, in the vain hopes that besmirching a person's character is the key to destroying their credibility and shutting them up. This kind of personal attack in response to a well-stated argument is, unfortunately, a common evidence of the failure of our educational system, because anyone with a basic education should be well aware of what this is--ad hominem.</div>
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A flawed character is not grounds for dismissing the validity of a person's extra-personal observations and assertions. Insisting that nothing a person says is valid in any area because they have been less than stellar people in another area is not only fallacious but utterly unrealistic... because <i>no human being is perfect in all aspects of life</i>--<i><b>mistakes</b> and <b>flaws </b>are a <b>promise of human existence</b> itself</i>. If only perfect, infallible people are to be believed, we must discard the observations and achievements of virtually everything we know and everything that makes us intelligible, civilized creatures. This is the problem with <b>ad hominem</b> <i>(personal attacks, impugning ones character in a fallacious attempt to </i>discredit the <b>person</b><i> issuing the argument, </i>rather than discrediting the <b>argument</b><i> itself).</i></div>
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The only time, say, calling someone a liar is going to effectively work in discrediting their argument is if you</div>
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#2 is the biggie! #2 is non-negotiable. Saying Joe Blow cheated on his taxes is not relevant to arguing, say, what the most efficient smelting method is at the foundry. If you were arguing money matters, perhaps, but for something wholly unrelated it just isn't pertinent. A real life example;</div>
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Albert Einstein's <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/17/abert-einstein-facts_n_3987801.html">personal life was considerably less honorable</a> than his academic achievements; he fathered an illegitimate child with his first wife before they were married, and the baby disappeared from documented existence. He set strange rules for his wife, detailing that "she had to serve three meals day, to stop talking if he asked her to, and to expect no intimacy from him." However, he had enough intimacy to spare to court many mistresses (though in his writings he claimed their affection was unwanted too; however, not unwanted enough to avoid extramarital affairs with them); among them his first cousin paternally (and second cousin maternally), whom he left his first wife for, to marry. Mental illness was a specter in his family; his second son, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Early_life_and_education">Eduard, was deeply afflicted with schizophrenia</a> at age 20 and spent his life in and out of (at the end, perpetually <i>in</i>) asylums. </div>
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However strange and deplorable his personal romantic exploits, one cannot use them to fault and argue on the validity of his other work; the theories of relativity, gravitational fields, particles, motion of molecules, light photons (photoelectric effect), the principles of equivalence and adiabatic invariance, the injustice of racism (he was a member of NAACP), his academic teachings on theoretical physics, thermodynamics, and analytical mechanics, and research on uranium and chain reaction (nuclear fission, the Manhattan project).</div>
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No, to discredit Einstein's scientific bodies of work would take something in kind--other bodies of scientific work, evidence, etc.. Where Einstein chose to sling his trouser snake has nothing to do with the math of quantum mechanics. Were Einstein's work the research, study, and teaching of dangerous dogs, no doubt every little aspect of his personal life would be open game to the critics (nutters), even his unfortunate schizophrenic son. I know SABSL* advocates with autistic or mildly disabled children and the vocal ones have had those innocents attacked and smeared in the vicious, frothing frenzy that is angry dog fanatics. </div>
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The scope and intensity of their virulence is precisely why the term 'nutter' exists... and as an aside, for those new to the issue, 'nutter' does not encompass ALL dangerous dog owners; just those who are deceptive, aggressive bullies and/or stalkers. A pit bull owner with an open mind that truly listens and does not worry a debunked claim like their dog with a bone, but instead absorbs and seeks to learn anything they can to be as cautious and careful as they can--truly understanding all the facets of their dangerous dog breed... is not a nutter. Little known fact is there ARE dangerous dog owners in SABSL groups who get along just fine, and do work together toward creating safer communities. </div>
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These are the people who understand that their dogs aren't fit for public consumption and were perhaps acquired with the best of misguided intentions. However, now having all the evidence before them, they stop with perpetuating dangerous myths and stop with excusing (any/every attack) and abusing (victims, victim blaming, wild speculation, etc.).</div>
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Sadly, these people are far too rare.</div>
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I digress.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: right;">What is</span><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: right;"> SABSL</b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: right;">? An umbrella acronym for safety/awareness/breed-specific legislation advocates.</span></span></div>
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<u>Other Bad Boys in History</u><br />
Oscar Wilde<br />
Pablo Picasso<br />
Julius Caesar<br />
Errol Flynn<br />
Elvis Presley<br />
Alexander the Great<br />
King Charles II<br />
Percy Shelley<br />
John F. Kennedy<br />
Benjamin Franklin<br />
Lord Byron<br />
Howard Hughes<br />
Sir Walter Raleigh<br />
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<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_hominem">Rational Wiki has an excellent article describing the ins and outs of this logical fallacy known as ad hominem.</a> From this Wiki:<br />
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<u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"><b>Defining ad hominem</b></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">The phrase </span><i style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"><b>ad hominem</b></i><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> argument (often called an </span><i style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">ad hominem</i><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> attack) comes from the </span><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Latin" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;" title="Latin">Latin</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> "to the person." It also sometimes applies to any </span><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;" title="Argument">argument</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> that centers on </span><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Emotional_appeal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;" title="Emotional appeal">emotive</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> (specifically </span><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Red_herring" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;" title="Red herring">irrelevant</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> emotions) rather than </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rational" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;" title="Rational">rational</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> or </span><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Logic" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;" title="Logic">logical</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> appeal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"><span style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">As most people use the phrase in recent times, an </span><i style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">ad hominem</i><span style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> argument occurs when one attacks the person making an argument rather than the argument itself. It is therefore a special case of the broader category of formal </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Logical_fallacies" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;" title="Logical fallacies">logical fallacies</a><span style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">, the </span><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Non_sequitur" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;" title="Non sequitur">non sequitur</a><span style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">, in which the conclusion urged, e.g. that the disputant is incorrect, does not follow from the premise asserted, e.g. that the disputant is a </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Asshole" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;" title="Asshole">dick</a><span style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_hominem#cite_note-0" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></sup><span style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> Even if the </span><i style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">ad hominem</i><span style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> attack is true, e.g. the disputant really is a dick, that fact has no bearing on whether the disputant's argument is logically sound.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">Often, </span><i style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">ad hominem</i><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> attacks are used subtly in order to influence the views of spectators. There are many forms of this, such as pointing out bad things they (the opponent) have done in the past in arguments about </span><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Morality" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;" title="Morality">morality</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> (they are not attacking the person's points about morality, they are attacking the person), or using </span><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Internet_law#Law_of_Exclamation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;" title="Internet law">exclamations</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> (for example, "Jeez!") to imply that the person is incredibly slow at understanding your point.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">Ad hominem</i><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> attacks are strictly fallacious when the attack has little or no bearing on the argument at hand, for example, dismissing a female scientist's opinion on a subject </span><i style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">because</i><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> she is a woman would be a fallacious </span><i style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">ad hominem</i><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> argument - dismissing it on grounds of insufficient qualification or experience would not be, although it may fall into other fallacious categories and may constitute a </span><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Courtier%27s_Reply" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;" title="Courtier's Reply">Courtier's Reply</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">. Similarly, pointing out someone's known track record on a subject would also not count. For instance, </span><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/YouTube" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;" title="YouTube">YouTube</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> creationist </span><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/VenomFangX" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;" title="VenomFangX">VenomFangX</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> has a past history of filing false </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/DMCA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;" title="DMCA">DMCA</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> claims, and it would not be an </span><i style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">ad hominem</i><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> attack to bring this up should he file another. It would be an </span><i style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">ad hominem</i><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> however, if it was brought up to refute one of his </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/YEC" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;" title="YEC">YEC</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> claims.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Calling someone an idiot when you have explained the </span><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Evidence" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;" title="Evidence">evidence</a><span style="font-size: 13px;"> five times and they still refuse to address it, or provide counterexamples, is not an </span><i style="font-size: 13px;">ad hominem</i><span style="font-size: 13px;"> attack, but rather a valid logical conclusion based on their actions. Similarly, tacking an insult onto the end of any argument might be bad form, but it doesn't automatically make it an </span><i style="font-size: 13px;">ad hominem</i><span style="font-size: 13px;">. It's only an </span><i style="font-size: 13px;">ad hominem</i><span style="font-size: 13px;"> if you say the other person must be wrong because they are an idiot - not the other way round.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Creationists sometimes make the mistake of calling a personal insult an </span><i style="font-size: 13px;">ad hominem</i><span style="font-size: 13px;"> attack when it is not intended to address the truth or falsity of the creationist's claim, but merely to denigrate the creationist. Likewise, creationists are known to mis-characterize logically sound arguments as </span><i style="font-size: 13px;">ad hominem</i><span style="font-size: 13px;"> attacks in an attempt to obscure the soundness of the argument or their burden to respond by making an </span><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Emotional_appeal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;" title="Emotional appeal">emotional appeal</a><span style="font-size: 13px;">.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/">SRUV</a> put it best when they wrote <i>"</i><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;"><i>An entire genre of the advocacy movement has developed based not on evaluating the data but on character assassination."</i> (In regards to the constant assaults on investigative journalist and humanitarian Merritt Clifton, but it is a route taken with all scientists, investigators, victim advocacy groups, and writers whose findings defy the propaganda machine; <a href="http://dogsbite.org/">dogsbite.org</a>, <a href="http://animals24-7.org/">Animals 24-7</a>, <a href="http://daxtonsfriends.com/">daxtonsfriends.com</a>, <a href="http://walkforvictimsofpitbulls.blogspot.com/">Walk for Victims of Pit Bulls (and other Dangerous Dogs</a>), Barbara Kay, <a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2010/01/dutch-spca-willing-to-sacrifice-other.html">Alexandra Semyonova</a>, Jeff Borchardt, etc.) In fact, these raze-the-ground tactics are such a default modus operandi of 'pit bull advocacy' that exposes on these crimes against human decency are myriad enough to span an entire blog; <a href="http://scorchedearththepoliticsofpitb.blogspot.com/">Scorched Earth: The Politics of Pit Bulls</a>. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-16973263009156658302014-12-07T11:55:00.000-07:002014-12-11T19:25:31.364-07:00One Breed, A Million Excuses.<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><a href="http://topsyturvybloodshed.blogspot.com/">(crossposted from Topsy Turvy & Bloodshed)</a></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">One breed, a million excuses. At what point does one stop to consider, "hmmm, why does this particular breed require militant advocacy and excuse after excuse? Why does it require publicity and PR managers aggressively managing the 'breed image'?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">One of the wisest things I ever heard was from my father, "Never be with someone you have to make excuses for." The reason the issue is so complex is precisely because so many excuses have been disseminated so thoroughly they have been blindly accepted as fact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If Myth Busters did a pitbull series they could easily run several seasons on it. Ridiculous.<br /><br />The incessant stream of <i>"it's the lie/fault of (insert anything/everything)!!"</i> is like the abusive psychopath who blames the rest of the world for his self-created problems... <b>any</b> and <b>every</b> excuse, no matter <i>how <b>wrong </b></i>or<i> <b>ridiculous</b></i>... to deflect blame...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I don't even know if I can list all the excuses, lies, deflections, and smokescreens used by pit bull (and other dangerous dog) 'advocacy'. In the coming weeks--THIS POST WILL BE CONTINUALLY UPDATED*--I will attempt to provide information debunking every fallacious, empty 'talking point' issued by sociopaths eager to unwittingly perpetuate the wide-scale suffering and death of animals, people, and even the very breed they claim to love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*note; updates will most frequently and first appear on <a href="http://topsyturvybloodshed.blogspot.com/">Topsy-Turvy & Bloodshed</a> and be secondarily edited here</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>The trash that needs to be taken out;</u></b></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>The media has it out for pitbulls. </b><i>(over-reports, misreports, under-reports on 'other breed attacks', 'never posts good stories', etc.)</i></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://thecaninegamechanger.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-media-is-plotting-against.html">http://thecaninegamechanger.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-media-is-plotting-against.html</a><br /><a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/05/13/barbara-kay-attack-of-the-pit-bull-advocates/">http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/05/13/barbara-kay-attack-of-the-pit-bull-advocates/</a><br /><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/canine-myths-2/">http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/canine-myths-2/</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2013/08/la-times-opinion.html">http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2013/08/la-times-opinion.html</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2014/05/anachronisms.html">http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2014/05/anachronisms.html</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2011/06/natural-consequences.html">http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2011/06/natural-consequences.html</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Huffington Post is notorious about the SABSL community for deleting or outright blocking comments altogether from intelligent advocates posting hard facts and tragic evidence in response to their myriad fluff pieces that continually churn out tired and debunked myth after myth. Presenting self-proclaimed shucksters that pronounce blatant falsehoods (like 'nanny dog' and 'man biters were culled' as gospel) as experts and pit bull lobbyist groups like they were sanctioned safety groups (the NCRC farce) decimates their credibility so much I read 'HuffPo' with all the consideration I give to The Onion or Fark threads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><i><a href="http://thetruthaboutpitbulls.blogspot.com/search/label/breed%20misidentification">http://thetruthaboutpitbulls.blogspot.com/search/label/breed%20misidentification</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><i><a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2014/01/2013-fatal-dog-attack-identification-photographs.html">http://blog.dogsbite.org/2014/01/2013-fatal-dog-attack-identification-photographs.html</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/canine-myths-2/">http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/canine-myths-2/</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The issue is further confused by the fact that shelter workers deliberately misidentify breed and many misguided animal workers will fraudulently issue a mislabel of a pit bull as a boxer-lab mix or some such to skirt BSL, landlord restrictions, or fraud insurance premiums. Masses of people present these animals as something other-than, and the average Joe-blow would be hard pressed to comprehend breed as a result.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140910132439.htm"><i>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140910132439.htm</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://thecaninegamechanger.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-name-change-game-staffordshire.html">http://thecaninegamechanger.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-name-change-game-staffordshire.html</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2013/05/breed-holocaust.html">http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2013/05/breed-holocaust.html</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/canine-myths-2/">http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/canine-myths-2/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2009/11/collection-of-pit-bull-scalp-attack.html">http://blog.dogsbite.org/2009/11/collection-of-pit-bull-scalp-attack.html</a> Since 'moving the goalpost' is one of the most frequently employed nutter tactics (albeit still falling far behind ad hominem and outright deceit), I can't help but wonder how Miss S___ is going to try to disqualify the NINETY little humans scalped by dogs between December 1975 and September 2014 as 'children'. If you include adults in the scalping count, the list easily topples 100.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">note; the author of this blog is not F_____ W____, so if you want to contact me, hunting with those parameters won't work (that's what comments are for). She is a mighty fine individual though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pitbullskilledmypet/timeline"><i>https://www.facebook.com/pitbullskilledmypet/timeline</i></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202733152622969&set=o.262338993950254&type=1"><i>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202733152622969&set=o.262338993950254&type=1</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/blog-posts-dog-attacks-horses.php">http://www.dogsbite.org/blog-posts-dog-attacks-horses.php</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21475022">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21475022</a></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/03/22/how-many-other-animals-did-pit-bulls-kill-last-year/">http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/03/22/how-many-other-animals-did-pit-bulls-kill-last-year/</a></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.fatalpitbullattacks.com/">http://www.fatalpitbullattacks.com</a></span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://walkforvictimsofpitbulls.blogspot.com/">http://walkforvictimsofpitbulls.blogspot.com/</a> (warning; GRAPHIC images)</i></span><i><a href="http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2010/01/happy-new-year.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2010/01/happy-new-year.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> (warning; GRAPHIC images)</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2186433/Dog-bite-hospital-admissions-rise--especially-children.html#ixzz23AkD4Eoa">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2186433/Dog-bite-hospital-admissions-rise--especially-children.html#ixzz23AkD4Eoa</a></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://dogsinservice.blogspot.com/2012/08/pit-bulls-and-other-dangerous-dogs-keep.html">http://dogsinservice.blogspot.com/2012/08/pit-bulls-and-other-dangerous-dogs-keep.html</a> (warning; GRAPHIC images)</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-remedy-for-commissioner-philbrook.html">http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-remedy-for-commissioner-philbrook.html</a></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://thecaninegamechanger.blogspot.com/2014/02/not-service-breed.html"><i>http://thecaninegamechanger.blogspot.com/2014/02/not-service-breed.html</i></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://fatherofdax.tumblr.com/post/97625313027/"><i>http://fatherofdax.tumblr.com/post/97625313027/</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2010/09/fully-vetted-pit-nutters-and-their.html"><i>http://blog.dogsbite.org/2010/09/fully-vetted-pit-nutters-and-their.html</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2012/04/vintage-stunt-pit-picks.html"><i>http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2012/04/vintage-stunt-pit-picks.html</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2012/01/pit-bull-service-dogs-theyre-too_23.html">http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2012/01/pit-bull-service-dogs-theyre-too_23.html</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://fatherofdax.tumblr.com/post/66220555500/every-6th-day-of-every-month-forever-nanny-dog">http://fatherofdax.tumblr.com/post/66220555500/every-6th-day-of-every-month-forever-nanny-dog</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The reality is, pit bulls are fraudulent service dogs;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://dogsinservice.blogspot.com/2012/02/bsl-and-service-dogs.html">http://dogsinservice.blogspot.com/2012/02/bsl-and-service-dogs.html</a></i></span><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://thecaninegamechanger.blogspot.com/2014/02/service-dog-insanity-faux-crime-against.html">http://thecaninegamechanger.blogspot.com/2014/02/service-dog-insanity-faux-crime-against.html</a></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://dogsinservice.blogspot.com/2012/04/first-i-want-to-say-that-reason-i.html">http://dogsinservice.blogspot.com/2012/04/first-i-want-to-say-that-reason-i.html</a></i></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Pit bulls are loyal and protective.</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://thecaninegamechanger.blogspot.com/2013/09/pitbull-loyalty-by-jenny-rosenquist.html"><i>http://thecaninegamechanger.blogspot.com/2013/09/pitbull-loyalty-by-jenny-rosenquist.html</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-quick-statistics.php"><i>http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-quick-statistics.php</i></a></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Pit bulls were nanny dogs.</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://thenannydogblog.blogspot.com/"><i>http://thenannydogblog.blogspot.com</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://thetruthaboutpitbulls.blogspot.com/2010/08/nanny-dog-myth-revealed.html"><i>http://thetruthaboutpitbulls.blogspot.com/2010/08/nanny-dog-myth-revealed.html</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2013/05/badrap-surrenders-to-facts.html">http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2013/05/badrap-surrenders-to-facts.html</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/canine-myths-2/">http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/canine-myths-2/</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BADRAP.org/posts/10151460774472399">https://www.facebook.com/BADRAP.org/posts/10151460774472399</a></i></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Falling coconuts kill more people than pit bulls. </b><i>(wins the award for most ridiculous claim ever)</i></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/2014/07/do-coconuts-kill-more-people-than-pit-bulls/"><i>http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/2014/07/do-coconuts-kill-more-people-than-pit-bulls/</i></a></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Pit bulls were bred as farm dogs</b> <i>(or for any purpose other than dog-fighting and blood-sport)</i>.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2010/07/pit-bulls-by-gary-wilkes-21st-century.html">http://blog.dogsbite.org/2010/07/pit-bulls-by-gary-wilkes-21st-century.html</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://dogsinservice.blogspot.com/2012/04/first-i-want-to-say-that-reason-i.html">http://dogsinservice.blogspot.com/2012/04/first-i-want-to-say-that-reason-i.html</a> (warning; graphic image)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2186433/Dog-bite-hospital-admissions-rise--especially-children.html#ixzz23AkD4Eoa">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2186433/Dog-bite-hospital-admissions-rise--especially-children.html#ixzz23AkD4Eoa</a></i></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Pit bulls were once so popular they were 'America's Dog'.</b></span></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Any/all dogs bite/kill.</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/pdf/1979-1998-breeds-dogs-involved-in-fatal-human-attacks-us.pdf">http://www.dogsbite.org/pdf/1979-1998-breeds-dogs-involved-in-fatal-human-attacks-us.pdf</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2011/08/all-dogs-bite.html">http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2011/08/all-dogs-bite.html</a> (warning; graphic images)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2013/04/dogs-being-dogs.html">http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2013/04/dogs-being-dogs.html</a></i></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Pit bull attacks are rare.</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://dangerousdognews.wordpress.com/">http://dangerousdognews.wordpress.com</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And really, if you Google 'pit bull attack' </span><a href="http://goo.gl/j9GqZO" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">http://goo.gl/j9GqZO</a> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">on a weekly basis, discounting repeat stories, you'll easily find at least a dozen attacks, several of which are guaranteed to be unprovoked attacks on humans.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">(Lately, there has been a pattern of at least one</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> life-flight </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">a week--these attacks are </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>severe</i></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">.) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Do this for a few weeks and even the most drug-addled, ADHD afflicted, sleep-deprived, half-literate spazmonkey will be able to discern some patterns--or at the very least the fact that these attacks are the exact opposite of rare. The website I linked above is actually staffed by several people and they cannot keep up with reporting every attack. All you have to do is </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">pay attention.</i></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Only abused/neglected/fight-trained/provoked/unsocialized/untrained pit bulls attack.</b> <i>(Notice a lot of the self-countering there? They must be trained to fight/they must be trained not to fight, etc.?) ...and the related;</i></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/canine-myths-2/">http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/canine-myths-2/</a></i></span></div>
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<i><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/chase-anthony-survivor-attacked-by-his-grandmothers-pit-bull-at-the-age-of-8-months/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/chase-anthony-survivor-attacked-by-his-grandmothers-pit-bull-at-the-age-of-8-months/</span></a></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2013/07/beyond-the-interview-essay-of-a-fatal-pit-bull-mauling.html">http://blog.dogsbite.org/2013/07/beyond-the-interview-essay-of-a-fatal-pit-bull-mauling.html</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/gavin-ray-guzman/">http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/gavin-ray-guzman/</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/kara-hartrich-bloomington-illinois-pit-bull/">http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/kara-hartrich-bloomington-illinois-pit-bull/</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://voicesofthevictims.org/victims-stories/in-their-own-words/lukas/"><i>http://voicesofthevictims.org/victims-stories/in-their-own-words/lukas/</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/beau-rutledge/"><i>http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/beau-rutledge/</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/betty-anne-chapman-todd-victims-stories/"><i>http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/betty-anne-chapman-todd-victims-stories/</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/zachary-wright-victims-stories/"><i>http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/zachary-wright-victims-stories/</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://17barks.blogspot.com/2013/12/an-anniversary-of-sorrow.html">http://17barks.blogspot.com/2013/12/an-anniversary-of-sorrow.html</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://walkforvictimsofpitbulls.blogspot.com/2014/05/zacharys-survival-story.html">http://walkforvictimsofpitbulls.blogspot.com/2014/05/zacharys-survival-story.html</a> (warning; graphic images)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://17barks.blogspot.com/2013/08/what-happened-to-gavin.html"><i>http://17barks.blogspot.com/2013/08/what-happened-to-gavin.html</i></a></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>It's the owners not the dogs.</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://thetruthaboutpitbulls.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-truth-about-pit-bull-owners.html">http://thetruthaboutpitbulls.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-truth-about-pit-bull-owners.html</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/canine-myths-2/">http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/canine-myths-2/</a></i></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>(While not pit bull </i>specific<i> it is still </i><b style="font-style: italic;">relevant</b><i> to the conversation...)</i> Dogs are descendants of wolves/operate under a dominance hierarchy/need a strong pack leader/anything by Cesar Millan.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.nonlineardogs.com/100MostSillyPart1.html"><i>http://www.nonlineardogs.com/100MostSillyPart1.html</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://beyondcesarmillan.weebly.com/"><i>http://beyondcesarmillan.weebly.com/</i></a></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Pit bulls are just like any other dog/all dogs are the same/breed doesn't matter.</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2009/05/semyonova-heritability-of-behavior-in.html"><i>http://blog.dogsbite.org/2009/05/semyonova-heritability-of-behavior-in.html</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/6472271/The-pit-bull-friend-or-killer-Is-the-Pit-bull-a-fine-animal-as-its-admirers-claim-or-is-it-a-vicious-dog-unfit-for-society">http://www.scribd.com/doc/6472271/The-pit-bull-friend-or-killer-Is-the-Pit-bull-a-fine-animal-as-its-admirers-claim-or-is-it-a-vicious-dog-unfit-for-society</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/01/02/barbara-kay-delusional-pitbull-owners-and-their-predictable-denials/">http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/01/02/barbara-kay-delusional-pitbull-owners-and-their-predictable-denials/</a><br /><a href="https://www.akc.org/press_center/article.cfm?article_id=5811#.VIkTzG1wRzE.facebook">https://www.akc.org/press_center/article.cfm?article_id=5811#.VIkTzG1wRzE.facebook</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21475022">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21475022</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2011/06/premacks-second-principle.html">http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2011/06/premacks-second-principle.html</a><br /><a href="https://www.akc.org/future_dog_owner/find_breed.cfm">https://www.akc.org/future_dog_owner/find_breed.cfm</a></i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.animalplanet.com/breed-selector/dog-breeds/laid-back-dog-breeds.html">http://www.animalplanet.com/breed-selector/dog-breeds/laid-back-dog-breeds.html</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.animalplanet.com/breed-selector/dog-breeds/easy-to-train-dog-breeds.html">http://www.animalplanet.com/breed-selector/dog-breeds/easy-to-train-dog-breeds.html</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.animalplanet.com/breed-selector/dog-breeds/family-dog-breeds.html">http://www.animalplanet.com/breed-selector/dog-breeds/family-dog-breeds.html</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.animalplanet.com/breed-selector/dog-breeds/energetic-dog-breeds.html">http://www.animalplanet.com/breed-selector/dog-breeds/energetic-dog-breeds.html</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/articles/puppytemperamenttest.htm">http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/articles/puppytemperamenttest.htm</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/gun-dogs/2013/03/hunting-dogs-best-dog-breeds-every-game-species">http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/gun-dogs/2013/03/hunting-dogs-best-dog-breeds-every-game-species</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2012/02/gameness-viii.html"><i>http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2012/02/gameness-viii.html</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/p/are-not-equal.html"><i>http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/p/are-not-equal.html</i></a></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>BSL kills innocent dogs/punishes good owners.</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/09/14/pit-bulls-the-personal-is-political/"><i>http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/09/14/pit-bulls-the-personal-is-political/</i></a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>(in the comments by site owner, writer, humanitarian, and decades-long dog statisti</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>cian Merritt Clifton; in response to a comment claiming </i>"</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What troubles me is that breed specific legislation does not take into account those individuals who indeed are not dangerous."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Clifton reveals; </i>"</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This statement is categorically false. No breed-specific legislation has been enacted in either the U.S. or Canada which did not “grandfather” pit bulls who had been licensed, vaccinated against rabies, kept safely, and had no dangerous history."</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; font-style: italic;">)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In many jurisdictions, part of the grandfathering clause may also require micro-chipping the dog, mandatory liability insurance, and specific containment/enclosure requirements. For any truly responsible owner well versed in the nature of their breed <i>(it's extraordinary ability to defy normal dog measures of containment, for example)</i>, these are reasonable measures that--it could be argued--a <b><i>truly </i></b>responsible owner <i>would <b>already</b> <b>be taking</b></i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They certainly would be found no more 'punitive' to a 'good owner' than baby-proofing a home, using a properly installed, to-date car seat, regular pediatrician appointments, and the like are 'punitive' to a good parent. Those who would find such measures 'punitive' would have to be lazy, miserly, ignorant/in denial, or as reckless as those who feel entitled to drive their vehicles without liability insurance, operate several ton equipment with the proper licensing, etc..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/09/10/obsessed-about-pit-bulls/">http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/09/10/obsessed-about-pit-bulls/</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>BSL can <b>save</b> innocent dogs; </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">ANIMALS 24-7 does <b><i>not </i></b>believe that animal rights, animal welfare, or even just being kind to animals is advanced by <i><b>protecting</b> backyard breeders of fighting dogs </i>from the passage of effective breed-specific legislation to prevent the births of <i>a million pit bulls per year</i> who will <i>repeatedly flunk out of homes</i> and be <b>killed</b> at the average age of <i>18 months</i>."</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>BSL doesn't work.</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2010/06/cities-with-successful-pit-bull-laws.html"><i>http://blog.dogsbite.org/2010/06/cities-with-successful-pit-bull-laws.html</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.animals24-7.org/2011/06/15/texas-fatal-dog-attacks-bring-proposed-life-sentence-new-breed-specific-injury-data/"><i>http://www.animals24-7.org/2011/06/15/texas-fatal-dog-attacks-bring-proposed-life-sentence-new-breed-specific-injury-data/</i></a> <i>(<b>see</b>; the section on Catalonia)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/08/24/four-year-old-killed-by-pit-bulls-because-miami-dade-law-was-not-enforced/">http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/08/24/four-year-old-killed-by-pit-bulls-because-miami-dade-law-was-not-enforced/</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2014/12/is-bsl-ineffective-expensive-and.html">http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2014/12/is-bsl-ineffective-expensive-and.html</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-remedy-for-commissioner-philbrook.html">http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-remedy-for-commissioner-philbrook.html</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-ava-on-dangerous-dogs.html">http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-ava-on-dangerous-dogs.html</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2014/12/coordinated-campaign.html">http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2014/12/coordinated-campaign.html</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2012/06/29/injuryprev-2012-040389.full.pdf+html">http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2012/06/29/injuryprev-2012-040389.full.pdf+html</a></i></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>"man-biters were culled."</b></span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://thetruthaboutpitbulls.blogspot.com/2012/01/culling-manbiters-and-desecrating-truth.html?m=1">http://thetruthaboutpitbulls.blogspot.com/2012/01/culling-manbiters-and-desecrating-truth.html?m=1</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2010/01/happy-new-year.html">http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2010/01/happy-new-year.html</a> (warning; GRAPHIC images)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-remedy-for-commissioner-philbrook.html"><i>http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-remedy-for-commissioner-philbrook.html</i></a></span><br />
<i><a href="http://www.fatalpitbullattacks.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">http://www.fatalpitbullattacks.com</span></a></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Not only do pit bulls consistently attack and kill human beings since their inception; the rapidly ascending number of annual fatalities correlates with the spreading popularity of the pit bull as a companion and family pet. An allegedly non-aggressive fighting dog should become less aggressive as it is proliferated for a different purpose (that of companion/pet), not more. An animal handled under the auspices of love, nurturing, affection, and solace should have far less cause to bite than the brutally abused and mishandled fighting dogs that were allegedly 'dog-only' aggressive; and yet the tragic facts are showing us the inverse. Neither history nor logical deduction support 'man-biters were culled'.</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Pit bulls rate better on temperament tests than other common family breeds/are a safe/stable dog.</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://thetruthaboutpitbulls.blogspot.com/2010/08/there-are-three-kinds-of-lies-lies.html">http://thetruthaboutpitbulls.blogspot.com/2010/08/there-are-three-kinds-of-lies-lies.html</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/canine-myths-2/">http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/canine-myths-2/</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.fatalpitbullattacks.com/"><i>http://www.fatalpitbullattacks.com</i></a></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>(insert name of person supporting BSL/exposing pit bull related lies/sharing pit bull related science fanatics don't like)</i> is a bad person, look at <i>(insert any manner of defamation methods a person can attempt)</i></b>. Essentially, a claim in the form of a personal attack; "don't believe anything this person says because they are a bad person."</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://thecaninegamechanger.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-problem-with-ad-hominem.html"><i>http://thecaninegamechanger.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-problem-with-ad-hominem.html</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem"><i>https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_hominem"><i>http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_hominem</i></a></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>"Your breed is next./In the </b><i>(insert decade here)</i> <b>it was the dobermans/rottweilers/German shepherds/</b><i>(insert allegedly maligned breed here)</i><b>, now it's the pit bull..."</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2011/03/first-they-came-pastor-martin-niemoller.html">http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2011/03/first-they-came-pastor-martin-niemoller.html</a></i></span></div>
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<ul style="text-align: start;">
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>BSL supporters are nothing more than 'haters', 'ignorant', 'have never known/owned/loved a pit bull'.</b></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/09/14/pit-bulls-the-personal-is-political/"><i>http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/09/14/pit-bulls-the-personal-is-political/</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/09/10/why-pit-bulls-will-break-your-heart/"><i>http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/09/10/why-pit-bulls-will-break-your-heart/</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.nl/2014/09/douglas-anthony-cooper.html">http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.nl/2014/09/douglas-anthony-cooper.html</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2014/09/collective-wrath-pt-1.html">http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2014/09/collective-wrath-pt-1.html</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/09/27/32-years-of-logging-fatal-disfiguring-dog-attacks/"><i>http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/09/27/32-years-of-logging-fatal-disfiguring-dog-attacks/</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/gavin-ray-guzman/"><i>http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/gavin-ray-guzman/</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/kara-hartrich-bloomington-illinois-pit-bull/"><i>http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/kara-hartrich-bloomington-illinois-pit-bull/</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://voicesofthevictims.org/victims-stories/in-their-own-words/lukas/"><i>http://voicesofthevictims.org/victims-stories/in-their-own-words/lukas/</i></a></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/beau-rutledge/"><i>http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/beau-rutledge/</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/betty-anne-chapman-todd-victims-stories/"><i>http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/betty-anne-chapman-todd-victims-stories/</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/zachary-wright-victims-stories/"><i>http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/zachary-wright-victims-stories/</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://17barks.blogspot.com/2013/12/an-anniversary-of-sorrow.html"><i>http://17barks.blogspot.com/2013/12/an-anniversary-of-sorrow.html</i></a></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://dogsbite.org/">dogsbite.org</a> is a bunch of lies made up by a pit bull hater.</b></span></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Animal experts support <i>(insert any of the above claims)</i>.</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://daxtonsfather.wordpress.com/2014/09/17/some-doctors-and-dog-experts-thoughts-about-pit-bulls/">http://daxtonsfather.wordpress.com/2014/09/17/some-doctors-and-dog-experts-thoughts-about-pit-bulls/</a></i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-36071144544064075542014-10-20T16:34:00.000-07:002014-10-24T08:25:12.719-07:00Some disturbing parallels<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
I'm writing a paper on secession for a US History class. Part of
that assignment is to present a chosen state's Ordinance of Secession (OoS) http://www.lsjunction.com/docs/secesson.htm <o:p></o:p></div>
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My group was assigned TX, and I must pinpoint the states stated
reasoning for it. Many of these illogical assertions parallel the victim
bullying, victim blaming, wrong recusing, and fact denying assertions of
the pro pit bull movement.<o:p></o:p></div>
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First, it claims the union is denying a person's
state-constitution rights; it is a Texan's right to own slaves! So, too,
it is with pit bull fanatics who rally against BSL; it is a RIGHT to own
a fighting breed dog no matter the cost; however, reasonable people
understand this is not so. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It should not be so. Why? Because we have a long standing
precedent of regulating animal ownership for the collective safety of the
communities we live in. A person
cannot own apex predator animals in the community at large; you cannot bring a
bear or a tiger into highly populated area for the undeniable threat they
pose to the surrounding people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In many places, other animals are restricted from city/town propers for the same reason. For example, in some areas, you must obtain a permit
to bring a horse into town. These animals are irrefutably less vicious* than
pit bulls. However, their biology makes them powerful and skittish.
Pit bull biology makes the dogs powerful, bold, unstable, and devastatingly
destructive when they go off.<o:p></o:p><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small; font-style: italic;">*note; there are equestrian related deaths, however these are the result of </span><a href="http://www.riders4helmets.com/equestrians/" style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">a rider without a helmet falling from the horse</a><span style="font-size: x-small; font-style: italic;"> and sustaining fatal head injuries. </span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The horse does</span> <b>not</b> <i style="font-weight: bold;">attack </i><span style="font-size: x-small; font-style: italic;"><b>a person, </b>or consciously seek to harm them.</span></div>
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A person cannot import exotics into certain areas because they are
highly problematic as an invasive species--they threaten the ecosystems
around them, indirectly so to humans. It is not so as pit
bulls. You'd be hard pressed to make a week without an occurrence of a
pitbulls breaking off lead/containment to attack members of the community.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />
Another portion of the ordinance classify the few fatal skirmishes between law
enforcement protecting freed slaves as "murders". It is
truly sad when anyone or thing dies as a result of violence, but
classifications of homicide are issued according to context (self-defense, unforeseeable accidents,
and acting under military orders are not classified as murder, for
example). <o:p></o:p></div>
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Even when a person's child or animal is mercilessly attacked and they
have no choice but to kill the dog to end the attack(1), even when a police
officer is charged full-on by a pit bull--even when said pitbull had just
commenced an attack on another person or animal, even when police fire upon a
pitbull because the pit bulls own family is being mauled relentlessly and
BEG him to do it.... (2) Pit bull fanatics cry foul, make a martyr of the aggressor, label
the officer a murder, hold protests against him, and demand his termination. (3) Acting as a public servant to fulfill their sworn duty to protect
and serve, or to save yourself or your loved ones from a vicious attacker hell-bent
on killing is not murder.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />
Secessionists cried natural law and that slavery is a divine institution
sanctified by The Creator. We all know this is not so.
Scientific evidence--fact--proves to us that differences among the races
are arbitrary At best. It's plain physiology. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The scientific physiology of a pit bull is riddled with dangerous
biological markers. (4) If you've ever heard someone call a pit bull a
"ticking time bomb", this is why; Pitbulls are endowed with brain
structures that are exaggeratedly different; their impulse control is greatly diminished,
Their brain rewards idiopathic (unprovoked, suddenly without warning, and
extreme in severity and duration) aggression with a powerful cocktail of
opioids and dopamine. It physically rewards violence. Their blood
clotting factor is supreme above all canids
to keep them "in the fight" for as long as possible. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The observable precedent of behavior (which we all acknowledge as
being able to be discerned as innate through observation in collies herding,
labs retrieving, etc.) that plays out on a daily basis is that these dogs Are spontaneously violent, their attacks
incredibly implacable, and that they are not target specific. <o:p></o:p></div>
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They will maul people--any person, including family, not solely
aggressors or abusers), animals of every kind, and even vehicles when they are
in the zone. Science proves pit bulls
are a significantly elevated risk to life and limb just as it proves that,
among human races, no one race is smarter, stronger, or cleaner than another.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The OoS states the union was on a power trip and sought to destroy
southern institutions. <br />
Fanatics howl that SABSL proponents are seeking to--for no reason
imaginable--to destroy dog ownership and that other breeds are ominously
next. This is a wholly unsubstantiated claim designed to recast
those championing a safe society for all as hate filled extremists who relish
in "destruction" for destruction's sake... And wholly ignores the
fact that even pit bulls themselves benefit from regulation. In areas where
even mild BSL is present, the rate of severe bite injuries and fatalities plummet
dramatically, leaving less "negative press" for the breed, in
addition to plummeting dog-fighting, dog-abuse, crammed-to-the-gills (and
therefore compromised standards of care) shelters, and pit bull euthanasia
rates. (5)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />
In the OoS, there is also an assertion that abolition fractured and divided
people, and while this is true, that does not make abolition wrong.
Disagreement is not grounds for ignoring an issue. Anything but.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The South issued that the north was acting vicious economically,
seeking to destroy southern industry to somehow (the regions largely
traded wholly different products--manufacturing, fishing, timber, textiles, etc. In the north, sprawling plantations and cash
crops in the south) fill their own pockets. Basically, it's all about
money. Pit bull fanatics claim victims
are just frauds seeking to solicit charity moneys for personal gain, and even
proclaim that dogsbite.org pays large sums of money to people to "make up
stories". This ignores the fact that behind every attack is a
victim with very real, crippling, lifelong, or fatal injuries.<o:p></o:p></div>
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These injuries are evidenced by witnesses and medical treatment, and they
are not "easy" ones--missing eyes, ears, noses (6), scalps (7), limbs (8),
permanent nerve damage (9), loss of function (10), brain damage (11), etc.. Many of
these People have medical bills that exponentially soar above the alleged
"bribe", additionally, singular bribes would be grossly ineffective
in "converts". <o:p></o:p></div>
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A much more effective and profitable endeavor—taking a page from the
pitbull advocacy play book) would be to generate propaganda films and "documentaries" (another
parallel--the early 1900s saw the production of race based
"documentaries" espousing the alleged inferiority Of
non-whites (12), peppered with gross amounts of junk "science" to support
it.) and aggressively and Consistently make media fluff plays.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When Kevin Vicente had his face partially torn off, his family set up a fund
that received a measly 5K for months, while a "save Mickey"--the
dog that mauled him--campaign received tens of thousands of dollars and support
in a few weeks. (13) This is not uncommon... It is substantially more
lucrative to generate money through a pro pit bull scam than a victim plea.<br />
<br />
<i>1 <a href="http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2014/09/by-any-means-necessary.html">Man stabs pit bull in defense of tiny Westie </a></i><br />
<i>2 <a href="http://nj1015.com/roselle-pit-bull-owner-begs-cops-to-kill-it/">Family begs cop to shoot pit bull </a></i><br />
<i>3 <a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS605US605&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=pit%20bull%20protesters%20want%20police%20officer%20fired">Pit bull protesters want police officer fired </a></i><br />
<i>4 <a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2009/05/semyonova-heritability-of-behavior-in.html">Pitbull physiology </a></i><br />
<i>5 <a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2010/06/cities-with-successful-pit-bull-laws.html">Successful BSL </a></i><br />
<i>6 <a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/dogsbite-search-results.php?cx=003395341087663039786%3Aze_5rreyew4&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=pit+bull+attack%2C+face&sa.x=0&sa.y=0">Mauled faces--eyes, ears, noses</a></i><br />
<i>7 <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://blog.dogsbite.org/2009/11/collection-of-pit-bull-scalp-attack.html&sa=U&ei=WtNFVNuhD-WM8QG2yYHYBQ&ved=0CAYQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFG8E2qzZ6xKKgCr3h9MPzXaeD0bQ">Scalped pit bull victims</a></i><br />
<i>8 <a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/dogsbite-search-results.php?cx=003395341087663039786%3Aze_5rreyew4&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=pit+bull+attack%2C+amputated&sa.x=0&sa.y=0">Pit bull victim amputees</a></i><br />
<i>9 <a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/dogsbite-search-results.php?cx=003395341087663039786%3Aze_5rreyew4&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=pit+bull+attack%2C+nerve+damage&sa.x=0&sa.y=0">Nerve damaged pit bull victims</a></i><br />
<i>10 <a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/dogsbite-search-results.php?cx=003395341087663039786%3Aze_5rreyew4&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=pit+bull+attack+disabled&sa.x=0&sa.y=0">Disabled pit bull victims</a></i><br />
<i>11 <a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/dogsbite-search-results.php?cx=003395341087663039786%3Aze_5rreyew4&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=pit+bull+attack%2C+brain+damage&sa.x=0&sa.y=0">Brain damaged pit bull victims</a></i><br />
<i>12 <a href="http://mytruesense.org/2013/02/17/how-racist-propaganda-was-used-to-subugate-black-people/">Racist Propaganda films (and other media)</a></i><br />
<i>13 <a href="http://themattwalshblog.com/2014/03/17/pit-bulls-can-maul-children-to-death-but-hey-why-should-that-stop-you-from-owning-one/">Kevin Vicente and Mickey the pit bull </a></i><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-31218015442472723942014-09-07T20:37:00.002-07:002014-09-07T21:16:20.322-07:00The Name Change Game; Staffordshire terrier = pit bull<div style="text-align: justify;">
Have you ever heard the question, or wondered for yourself;</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"What's the difference between Staffordshire Terriers and Pit Bulls?"</span></div>
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People often encounter the mention of Staffordshire terriers in any arena of pitbull conversation. Staffordshires are referenced as a wholly separate breed from pitbulls, and on this faulty premise, people typically make several assumptions/assertions;</div>
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<li>The given; these are different breeds. Ergo, many traits--especially behavior--may or may not be shared, any more so than any other breed from one to the other. (That in itself is a faulty premise but that's a post for another day.)</li>
<li>They have different histories and purposes.</li>
<li>People cannot tell one from the other, or they are often confused for one another.</li>
<li>Because of this, people confuse the two, the statistics on pitbull/staffordshire attacks can't possibly be accurate or relevant.</li>
<li>This claim is unspoken, but heavily implied by the aforementioned; BSL (breed specific legislation) does not work. Why it's relevant is because one of the very few hats anti-BSL advocates hangs its hat on is the (statistically) insignificant drop in bite/attack rates since the UK banned pitbulls. This might, perhaps, somehow signify something if Staffordshire terriers and pitbulls were truly wholly different animals, as different from each other as, say, Cocker Spaniels and malamutes, but an unspoken fact is important to bear: the pitbull ban did not include Staffordshire terriers.</li>
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Why does <i>that </i>matter?</div>
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Because Staffordshire terriers are about as different from pit bulls as chocolate labs are to yellow labs.</div>
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The AKC doesn't recognize pitbulls by their common title; the American Pit Bull Terrier (APBT for short), but does recognize the breed under the more formal and more confusing title; American Staffordshire terrier (often nicknamed 'AmStaff' 'Am Staff' or even the slightly more transparent 'Am Bully').<b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">It is the same breed. </span></b> </div>
The AKC initially refused to acknowledge and set a standard for the pitbull breed precisely because of its undivorceable dog-fighting origin and purpose. (In fact, the AKC's initial rejection was the whole reason the UKC was formed--to serve as<a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/pdf/faq-pit-bulls-dogsbite.pdf"> a kennel club that recognized fighting breed dogs, and in fact, a pitbull had to have won three fights to be eligible for recognition</a>(1).)<br />
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<a href="https://www.akc.org/breeds/american_staffordshire_terrier/index.cfm">The American Kennel Club advertises the American Staffordshire's history </a>as thus(2);<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><i>Until the early 19th century, the Bulldog used for bull baiting in England was more active and longer-legged than the breed as we know it today. It is thought that the cross of this older Bulldog and a game terrier breed created the Staffordshire Terrier. Originally called the Bull-and-Terrier Dog, Half and Half or Pit Dog, it became known as the Staffordshire Bull Terrier in England. When accepted for AKC registration in 1936, the name changed to American Staffordshire Terrier to reflect the heavier American type and to distinguish them as separate breeds.</i></span></span></div>
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The history of the pitbull: When bull-baiting was outlawed in England, gambling sadists turned to pitting dogs against each other... and for this purpose, they crossed the Olde English Bulldogge (spelling verbatim)--for aggression and strength, especially jaw power--with terrier breeds for speed, agility, tenacity, and prey-drive. When dog-fighting was outlawed, many dogmen took their bloodsport overseas to the Americas, where it had yet to be outlawed. This 'migration and separation' was a historically recent occurrence. Aside from getting a little bigger than their English ancestors (which was also a tandem phenomena in humans as well--but in both, only marginally at best), the differences are negligible. </div>
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Every line up to but the last is the<a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/american-pit-bull-terrier/"> pitbull's history</a> (3), verbatim... all the key players and words are present;</div>
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<li>bull-baiting</li>
<li>english bulldogs</li>
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But there are heavy omissions. The entirety of the reason for the breed's inception, for example... why exactly it is these dog 'fanciers' decided to cross bulldogs with terriers?? DOG.FIGHTING. No other reason. Adequate and fantastic family, guard, farm, hunting, tracking, retrieving, assistance breeds... all already existed (many by centuries, if not more), were present, and accessible in the area. People were much more pragmatic about dogs in those times. As mercenary as it sounds to modern cream puffs; they were a means to an end. </div>
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Why take a smaller, more controllable, portable, sustainable, and companionable dog that 'got the job done' (whether it be herding, ratting, etc.) and make it larger, more unpredictable, more costly in resources (feed, etc.), and more difficult to handle? It sure wasn't for gently guiding livestock or babysitting, I can tell you that. Disturbingly,<br />
especially the trusting due given them, the UKC and AKC won't. They even go one step further and continue endangering families and perpetuating blatantly false perceptions that are getting pets and people maimed and killed on a mass scale;</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span id="right_breed_title" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i><b>Right Breed for You?</b></i></span><i>The Am Staff is a people-oriented dog that thrives when he is made part of the family and given a job to do. Although friendly, this breed is loyal to his family and will protect them from any threat. His short coat is low-maintenance, but regular exercise and training is necessary.</i></span></div>
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A mess of Staffordshire owner-victims would beg to differ about the breed's loyalty and threat level. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/*https://www.google.com/search?q=staffordshire+terrier+attack&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS575US575&oq=staffordshire+terrier+attack&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.3718j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8#q=staffordshire+terrier+attacks">Comb news archives</a> (4) and you'll drown in the overwhelming testimony of this. Opponents of BSL like to claim that BSL 'doesn't work' by citing the fairly undiminished number of bites and serious attacks overseas. Perhaps that is because BSL wasn't implemented to the fullest as it pertains to fighting breeds--Staffordshires are legal there, and so all the pitbull owners have to do is relabel the same dog and it passes for the other breed because... well, the other breed isn't really 'another breed'. It is the same dog, different name.</div>
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Sadly, too many people take kennel clubs to be the be-all-end-all of dog knowledge and professionalism. It is important to remember these are not charity groups or educational institutions... these are, first, foremost, and always, a business. These groups operate with financial agendas. Papers, dog shows, breeding licenses, schutzhund events... there is money in dogs--if you're working through a Kennel Club. It's rather telling, that the next line under the breed propaganda is, replete with link to purchase;</div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; line-height: 18px;">If you are considering purchasing an </span><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">American Staffordshire Terrier puppy</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; line-height: 18px;">, </span><a href="https://www.akc.org/classified/search/landing_puppy.cfm?breed_code=202" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #990099; font-family: Arial; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">learn more here</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; line-height: 18px;">.</span></i></blockquote>
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The UKC's description and history of the pitbull not only omits the inherent danger of pitbulls as companion animals, but goes a step further to wholly falsify the breed history and purpose. They assert the dogs were bred for farm work or boar hunting, but fail to provide historical evidence supporting this. Even pro-pitbull literature peppered with the usual arsenal of deflections, deceptions, and excuses <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=oYQPNdO17o0C&pg=PP21&lpg=PP21&dq=dual+register+american+staffordshire+terrier+american+pit+bull+terrier&source=bl&ots=ePZwS09-9w&sig=TpcH7SwWI9b0WfLTKXDk_xtJ7lc&hl=en&ei=MdSsTaDKM8WV0QGz4dXBCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false">acknowledge the breed's fighting origins</a>. (5)</div>
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Given the earlier mention of how the UKC came to be, it should be no surprise that the fruit of men who had no compunctions about disregarding the well-being of living beings for sadistic spectacle and monetary gain... would have equally no conscience about continuing to mislead and endanger countless more, despite the snowballing death-toll rising with it.</div>
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The image--interesting to note that it is not of a 'whole' dog but one with the cropped ears and docked tail that typify fighting dogs and tend to change the whole visage of an animal--accompanying the AKC's history of the Staffordshire terrier is;</div>
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<img height="136" src="https://images.akc.org/breeds/action_images/american_staffordshire_terrier.jpg" width="200" /><span style="font-size: x-small;">looks like s/he's got a few long lost siblings here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">oh wait... those are purebred pitbulls</span></div>
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How arbitrary are the differences between these allegedly separate breeds? From inception of a breed standard in both the UKC and AKC, people have, and CONTINUE TO <b>double-register</b> (5) their dogs as pitbulls and Staffordshires. <b><i>The very <span style="font-size: large;">same </span>dog</i></b> can have an AKC paper reading 'Staffordshire' and a UKC paper reading 'APBT'. For example, this female purebred pitbull (left) won best in show in BOTH an AKC Staffordshire placing and a UKC show:<br />
<a href="http://www.mountbrieramstaffs.com/">The breeder from which she springs profusely brags the dual awards her dogs routinely receive.</a> (6)<br />
This is wholly legal and acceptable, and using the Staffordshire moniker is an oft employed means of skirting breed restrictions. The average landlord may be frustratingly thwarted by this. They look at the animal and know it is a pitbull, but may not know what to do if someone shoves a 'Staffordshire' breed paper in their face, unawares that they are officially one in the same in the professional dog circuits. <a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/dangerous-dogs-pit-bull-owners.php#disguisebreed">Flagrantly disguising breed via name is far from a new tactic meant to confuse the public at large</a>. (7)</div>
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">Comparing and Contrasting the AKC's American Staffordshire Terrier and the UKC's American Pit Bull Terrier's breed standards</span></div>
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<u><a href="http://www.ukcdogs.com/Web.nsf/Breeds/Terrier/AmericanPitBullTerrier">UKC Breed Standard </a> (9)</u></div>
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Head: Medium length, deep through, <b>broad</b> skull, very pronounced cheek muscles, <b>distinct stop</b>; and ears are set high</div>
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Head: It is large and broad, giving the impression of great power, but it is not disproportionate to the size of the body. Viewed from the front, the head is shaped like a <b>broad,</b> blunt wedge. When viewed from the side, the skull and muzzle are parallel to one another and joined by a <b>well defined, moderately deep stop</b>. Supraorbital arches over the eyes are well defined but not pronounced. The head is well chiseled, blending strength, elegance, and character. Very Serious Fault: Overly large, heavy heads.</div>
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Ears - Cropped or uncropped, the latter preferred. Uncropped ears should be short and held rose or <b>half </b>prick. <b>Full drop</b> to be penalized.<br />
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Ears - Ears are high set and may be natural or cropped without preference. Prick, or flat, wide ears* are not desired.<br />
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Eyes -<b> Dark</b> and <b>round</b>, <b>low down in skull </b>and <b>set far apart</b>. No pink eyelids.<br />
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Eyes - Eyes are medium size, <b>round</b> and <b>set well apart </b>and <b>low on the skull</b>. All colors are equally acceptable except <b>blue, </b>which<b> is a serious fault.</b> Haw should not be visible.</div>
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Muzzle- Medium length, rounded on upper side to <b>fall away abruptly below eyes.</b> Jaws well defined. <b>Under-jaw to be strong and have biting power. Lips close and even, no looseness.</b> Upper teeth to <b>meet tightly outside lower teeth</b> in front. <i>Nose definitely black.</i><br />
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Muzzle - The muzzle is broad and deep with a very slight taper from the stop to the nose, and a slight <b>falling away under the eyes</b>. The length of muzzle is shorter than the length of skull, with a ratio of approximately 2:3. The topline of the muzzle is straight. <b>The lower jaw is well developed, wide and deep.</b> <b>Lips are clean and tight </b> The American Pit Bull Terrier has a complete set of evenly spaced, white teeth <b>meeting in a scissors bite</b>. Faults: Snipey muzzle; flews; weak lower jaw. The nose is large with wide, open nostrils. <i>The nose may be any color.</i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Here, here we see the first and only definitive difference between the breed standards--the color of a dog's nose. Asserting that the trait of nose pigmentation is somehow indicative of a behavior aspect of form meets function* is a task that would best even champions of mental gymnastics.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">*See dog behaviorist Alexandra Semyonova's<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/14810086/Heritability-of-Behavior-in-the-Abnormally-Aggressive-Dog-by-A-Semyonova">"Heritability of behavior" </a>(10) </span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">and the relevant section on physical-behavioral body conformation</span></i></div>
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Neck: <b>Heavy</b>, <b>slightly arched</b>, <b>tapering</b> from <b>shoulders to back of skull</b>. <b>No looseness of skin</b>. <b>Medium length.</b><br />
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Neck: The neck is of <b>moderate length</b> and muscular. There is a <b>slight arch</b> at the crest. The neck <b>widens gradually</b> from where it joins <b>the skull to </b>where it blends in to well laid-back<b> shoulders.</b> The <b>skin on the neck is tight </b>and without dewlap.</div>
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<b>Faults: Neck too thin or weak</b>; ewe neck; dewlap.<br />
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Shoulders: <b>Strong and muscular</b> with <b>blades wide and sloping</b>.</div>
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Shoulders: The <b>shoulder blades </b>are <b>long, wide, muscular</b>, and <b>well laid back</b>. The upper arm is roughly equal in length to the shoulder blade and joins it at an apparent right angle.<br />
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Back: Fairly short.<b> Slight sloping</b> from withers to rump with gentle short slope at rump to base of tail. </div>
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Back: The back is strong and firm. The topline <b>inclines very slightly</b> downward from the withers to a broad, muscular, level back.<br />
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Body: <b>Well-sprung ribs, deep in rear.</b> All ribs close together. <b>Chest deep and broad</b>. <b>Loins slightly tucked.</b></div>
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Body: The <b>chest is deep, well filled in, and moderately wide</b> with <b>ample room</b> for heart and lungs, but the chest should never be wider than it is deep. The forechest does not extend much beyond the point of shoulder. The <b>ribs extend well back and are well sprung from the spine,</b> then flattening to form a deep body extending to the elbows. The topline inclines very slightly downward from the withers to a broad, muscular, level back. The <b>loin</b> is short, muscular and slightly arched to the top of the croup, but narrower than the rib cage and with a <b>moderate tuck-up. </b>The croup is slightly sloping downward.<br />
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Tail:<b> Short</b> in comparison to size,<b> low set,</b> <b>tapering to a fine point</b>; not curled or held over back. Not docked.</div>
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Tail: The tail is set on as a natural extension of the topline, and <b>tapers to a point</b>. When the dog is relaxed, the tail is <b>carried low </b>and extends approximately to the hock. When the dog is moving, the tail is carried level with the backline. When the dog is excited, the tail may be carried in a raised, upright position (challenge tail), but never curled over the back (gay tail). <b>Fault: Long tail</b> (tail tip passes beyond point of hock).<br />
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Legs: <b>Forelegs set rather wide apart</b> to permit chest development. The front legs should be<b> straight, large </b>or <b>round bones, pastern upright</b>. <b>No semblance of bend in front</b>. Hindquarters <b>well-muscled</b>, let down at hocks, <b>turning neither in nor out</b>. Feet of moderate size, well-arched and compact. Gait must be springy but without roll or pace.</div>
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Legs: The forelegs are <b>strong and muscular. </b>The elbows are set close to the body. Viewed from the front, the <b>forelegs are set moderately wide apart</b> and perpendicular to the ground. The pasterns are<b> short, powerful, straight</b>, and flexible. When viewed in profile, the <b>pasterns are nearly erect</b>. </div>
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<b>Faults: </b>Upright or loaded shoulders; elbows <b>turned outward or tied-in;</b> down at the pasterns; front legs bowed; wrists knuckled over; toeing in or out.The feet are round, proportionate to the size of the dog, well arched, and tight. Pads are hard, tough, and well cushioned. Dewclaws may be removed.<br />
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Coat: <b>Short, close, stiff to the touch, and glossy.</b></div>
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Coat: The coat is <b>glossy </b>and smooth, <b>close, </b>and moderately<b> stiff to the touch.</b> Faults: Curly, wavy, or sparse coat.</div>
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Color: <b>Any color,</b> solid, parti, or patched is permissible, but all white, more than 80 per cent white, black and tan, and liver not to be encouraged.</div>
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Color: <b>Any color</b>, color pattern, or combination of colors is acceptable, except for merle(11)</div>
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<i><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.akc.org/about/glossary.cfm#merl">Merle </a></strong></i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>A marking pattern, used in conjunction with another color, to describe Shetland Sheepdogs, Collies, Great Danes, and Australian Shepherds. The color is characterized by a marbling effect of dark patches against a lighter background of the same color</i></span></div>
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Size: <b>Height and weight should be in proportion</b>. A height of about <b>18 to 19 inches at shoulders for the male</b> and <b>17 to 18 inches for the female</b> is to be considered preferable.<br />
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Size: The American Pit Bull Terrier must be both powerful and agile; <b>overall balance and the correct proportion </b>of weight to height, therefore, is far more important than the dog’s actual weight and/or height.<br />
Desirable weight for a mature male in good condition is between 35 and 60 pounds. Desirable weight for a mature female in good condition is between 30 and 50 pounds.<br />
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Very Serious Fault: Excessively large or overly massive dogs and dogs with a height and/or weight so far from what is desired as to <i>compromise health, structure, movement and physical ability</i>.</div>
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So here we have it, a detailed description defining each breed; identical in every which way sans one--the color of the dog's nose. It's a stark irony that pitbull fanatics claim people who distinguish between breeds as it pertains to their heavily contrasting traits... (for no fool could confuse the very different breed standards for, say, a dalmatian versus a chow, a chow versus a beagle, a St.Bernard versus a greyhound, or a chihuahua versus a pitbull) ...and yet are so adamant about separating, scrutinizing, and distinguishing between dogs with the very same sort of arbitrary differences that compose human 'race' (i.e. color, pigment, geographical origin or placement.) These deliberate confusions may be why Miami Dade County, Florida, applies <a href="http://www.miamidade.gov/animals/library/pit-bull-ordinance-89-22.pdf">47 different points of identification</a> when scrutinizing dogs as it pertains to the pitbull ban. (12) They apply the race argument where it is most faulty, and are conspicuously quiet where it would reveal contradiction and hypocrisy.</div>
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No... a Staffordshire is to a pitbull as a chocolate lab is to a golden or black lab. These are not genuinely different breeds; just the same dogs, each of a different color stripe. This is the<i> only</i> adequate canine comparison to the very arbitrary pigmental differences among human races, and it does not work in the pitbull fantasists' favor, because it truly deepens the scope of the breed specific problem. This is why, when I speak of pitbulls, I am speaking inclusively of any of <a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/dangerous-dogs-pit-bull-owners.php#disguisebreed">the deceptive attempts at other-breed-names</a> (6)... when I say pitbull, I include APBT, Am Staffs, bull dogs, pit terriers, American Bull Terriers, Yankee terriers, St. Francis terriers, New Yorkies, American bulldogs, Staffordshire Terriers, and any other ridiculous or diversionary name for the</div>
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So what does this all come down to, when referring to what these names denote? Geography, and maybe, weight. A Staffordshire is a pitbull across the Atlantic. An APBT is a pitbull in America. It may or may not be a little heavier in general, but that is understandable considering the obesity epidemic in the US (just stating facts, not meaning to disparage!). These differences are arbitrary at best; being a Staffordshire terrier makes a ancestral-pit-fighting dog no more different an animal from an APBT than an American man moving to London makes him a different animal. </div>
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Sure, there are cultural issues and such, but c'mon now... animals are too cognitively simplistic to be affected in the myriad and nuanced ways people are by advanced abstract concepts such as national identity, politics, history, etc.. Locale does not re-write a dog's cognitive abilities, behaviors, genetics, and other pre-existing predispositions. Though cliched to death, I will paraphrase Shakespeare, "What's in a name? Does a rose by any other name smell not as sweet?"</div>
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No, the purpose of the Staffordshire name continues as it began--to distance an animal from it's true, 'unsavory' history, to confuse the breed-danger issue, to mislead, to con, and falsify numbers to skew statistics in ways the average Joe will not be aware of. Much like spouting the nanny-dog myth, anyone authoritatively asserting/arguing about differentiating between Staffordshire's and pitbulls as wholly different breeds outs themselves--in a highly visible way and easily identifiable way... as someone who does not know what they're really talking about, vibrantly displays their ignorance of history and biology, and consideration should be given with accordance to their massive deficit in verifiable knowledge.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(1) The History of the Pit Bull Breed -- subsection on the formation of the UKC and dog-fighting <a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/pdf/faq-pit-bulls-dogsbite.pdf">http://www.dogsbite.org/pdf/faq-pit-bulls-dogsbite.pdf</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">(2) AKC History of the American Staffordshire Terrier <a href="https://www.akc.org/breeds/american_staffordshire_terrier/index.cfm"> https://www.akc.org/breeds/american_staffordshire_terrier/index.cfm</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">(3) History of the American Pit Bull Terrier <span style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/american-pit-bull-terrier/">http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/american-pit-bull-terrier/</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;">(4) Google 'staffordshire attack' </span><span style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=staffordshire+terrier+attack&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS575US575&oq=staffordshire+terrier+attack&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.3718j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-">https://www.google.com/search?q=staffordshire+terrier+attack&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS575US575&oq=staffordshire+terrier+attack&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.3718j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-</a>8#q=staffordshire+terrier+attacks</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;">(5) Section of pro-pit lit on fighting origins and purpose breeding</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=oYQPNdO17o0C&pg=PP21&lpg=PP21&dq=dual+register+american+staffordshire+terrier+american+pit+bull+terrier&source=bl&ots=ePZwS09-9w&sig=TpcH7SwWI9b0WfLTKXDk_xtJ7lc&hl=en&ei=MdSsTaDKM8WV0QGz4dXBCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false">http://books.google.com/books?id=oYQPNdO17o0C&pg=PP21&lpg=PP21&dq=dual+register+american+staffordshire+terrier+american+pit+bull+terrier&source=bl&ots=ePZwS09-9w&sig=TpcH7SwWI9b0WfLTKXDk_xtJ7lc&hl=en&ei=MdSsTaDKM8WV0QGz4dXBCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">(6) Deliberately relabeling pitbulls <a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/dangerous-dogs-pit-bull-owners.php#disguisebreed">http://www.dogsbite.org/dangerous-dogs-pit-bull-owners.php#disguisebreed</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">(7) Heritability of Behavior in the Abnormally Aggressive Dog <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/14810086/Heritability-of-Behavior-in-the-Abnormally-Aggressive-Dog-by-A-Semyonova">http://www.scribd.com/doc/14810086/Heritability-of-Behavior-in-the-Abnormally-Aggressive-Dog-by-A-Semyonova</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">(8) Merle<a href="https://www.akc.org/about/glossary.cfm#merl"> https://www.akc.org/about/glossary.cfm#merl</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">(9) </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> AKC Breed Standard https://www.akc.org/breeds/american_staffordshire_terrier/breed_standard.cfm</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">(10) UKC Breed Standard <a href="http://www.ukcdogs.com/Web.nsf/Breeds/Terrier/AmericanPitBullTerrier">http://www.ukcdogs.com/Web.nsf/Breeds/Terrier/AmericanPitBullTerrier</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">(11) Breeder's dogs routinely compete and succeed as BOTH 'Staffies' and pitbulls <a href="http://www.mountbrieramstaffs.com/">http://www.mountbrieramstaffs.com/</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">(12) Miami-Dade Pitbull Ordinance <a href="http://www.miamidade.gov/animals/library/pit-bull-ordinance-89-22.pdf">http://www.miamidade.gov/animals/library/pit-bull-ordinance-89-22.pdf</a></span></div>
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By now, most people have probably heard pitbull apologia's desperate and deplorable cry that there is a "media bias" against pitbulls. Seeking to mitigate the stark contrast between the volume of attacks betwixt the 'chosen breed' and others, they claim that the media over-reports or reports only pitbull attacks, and that other breeds attack all the time but go under-/un-reported.</div>
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Now let it first be said what the criteria for an attack is... finger-nips, one quick bite-and-release, and self-defense/fear biting that results in only superficial injury is NOT newsworthy. Such a deluge of common happenstance would saturate the media so much that it would be extremely difficult know much of anything if we had to sludge our way through 'report' after report of every growl and nip. What constitutes an attack, and what I am referring to when I use the term here is; </div>
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<li>evisceration,</li>
<li>crippling, disfigurement through loss of eye/ear/nose/lips/muscle tissue/cartilage/bone/scalp or degloving (being 'skinned' through traumatic ripping force),</li>
<li>permanent nerve damage,</li>
<li>permanent loss of bodily function,</li>
<li>brain damage,</li>
<li>loss of limbs,</li>
<li>loss of life,</li>
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As of December 31, 2013, the Federal Communications Commission reports that there are 30,432 television and radio broadcast stations within the United States(1). The National Newspaper Association presently represents 2000+ newspapers(2)--this being a dramatically reduced number due to the massive cultural shift to digital mediums within the last 15 years. A simple Google query for news websites in the US yields over 1, 340,000 results(3). As of 2012, the Bureau of Labor statistics shows that the US employed approximately 57,600 reporters, news correspondents, and broadcast news analysts(4). Education News' Career Index showed that, as of 2010, there were 105,350 journalism professionals working in the United States(6).</div>
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And yet, pitbull fanatics would have you believe--and unfortunately, have been quite successful in convincing far too many--that every station, outlet, publication, reporter, and journalist has some sort of personal vendetta against a single breed of dog... so much so that they would defy journalistic integrity to persecute an animal many of them have either never had a negative experience with or, predominately, have not encountered at all. Pitbull apologists expect you to believe these people, for no fathomable reason at all, would risk their very careers or that these stations would risk their credibility and endanger the public at large by pointedly ignoring the (mythical) attacks committed by other breeds. They claim the media is all about reporting on pitbulls because they are sensational--yet the sheer volume of attacks--occurring on a daily basis throughout the US... makes pitbull attacks anything but. They are business as usual.</div>
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The very definition of sensational is that which invokes intense interest or curiosity. There's nothing new (and therefore novel, new, or interesting) about a pitbull inflicting serious injury or death on a person, pet, or livestock. This high frequency leaves sensationalism to be found only in how horrific the aftermath is. What IS sensational is a member of dog breed not known for aggressive tendencies or destructive behaviors, or physically unlikely to cause grievous harm (the ONE and only fatality by a pomeranian mix that killed a newborn) disfiguring or killing someone. </div>
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The bizarre and unusual are media's lifeblood; the ability to offer something that hasn't been heard of before, or that doesn't seem to make sense with the masses understanding of the world... such tales are attention grabbers. They can give a media outlet a competitive edge over their contemporaries. </div>
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The unusual, no matter what it is, promises the most payoff. It makes absolutely no fiscal sense for any medium to regularly forfeit attacks by other breeds. It is within their BEST interest to do so as often as the opportunity arises. This makes the 'media bias' conspiracy theory all the more absurd... so absurd and contradictory to volumes of tangible evidence that it borders on the same psychosis of Holocaust-deniers. This ridiculous "media conspiring against pitbulls" assertion requires the belief that tens of thousands of people working in and for the media are conspiring against a single breed ...to the very heavy detriment to themselves, their employer, their paycheck, and the public.</div>
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What IS strange--a genuine curiosity, if you will--is when a 'tried and true' breed, the most relied-upon for service work and family environments, such as the Labrador, kills someone. The data-gathering magazine ANIMAL PEOPLE issued a report showing that, from September 1982 through December 31, 2013, purebred Labradors have killed only three people. </div>
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The death toll rises by 9 if you include Lab mixes... one of which was an Akita (the Japanese equivalent of a fighting dog) mix, another mixed with German Shepherd (known for their boldness and aggression--which is why they are the top breed in schutzhund and police work), and five of which were pitbull mixes.</div>
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In stark contrast, 263 people in that same time-frame were killed by purebred pitbulls. If including pitbull mixes, that number rises to 277(5).</div>
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A 22 month old Montana toddler was mauled into critical condition by the never-bit-anyone-before family dog of 10 years(8b), which tore off her grandmother's fingers as she intervened, and would not stop attacking the helpless baby girl until a neighbor Jonathan Banta arrived to help and stabbed it repeatedly with a steak knife(8). Another life-flight victim. Little Deriah Solem was attacked Thursday evening and died at Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center the following Monday afternoon.</div>
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Despite weeks of regular interaction and familiarity, Joel Chirieleison of Tanning Springs, FL, was mauled to death by his aunt's two pitbulls--neither of which had a history of aggression, both of which had interacted with children many times prior without a problem(7).</div>
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6yo Armani McKinnis was attacked by a loose pitbull while attending a friend's birthday party. It took the intervention of witness Micheal Marshall and his two nephews--beating the dog with chairs and even standing on its neck--to get the dog to release(9). The injuries to his face and leg were so severe he had to be rushed into emergency surgery and spent the night in the pediatric intensive care unit. (9) The child's grandmother described his face as "demolished" and "gone"(9b).</div>
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59yo Cindy Whisman was mauled to death in her own backyard, in front of her 2yo grandson, by her daughter's never-aggressive-before, raised-from-a-puppy pitbull. Her daughter was living with her; the dog was a 'household member' wholly familiar with Cindy(14). Detectives reported she had extensive injuries all over her face, neck, body, and hands. Butler County coroner Dr.Lisa Mannix simply put the cause of death as accidental, "due to dog bite" on the autopsy report. In the sidebar of other articles on the news-site featuring this article, were several pro-pitbull stories as well, including a piece titled "pitbulls aren't the only dangerous dogs"(14b).</div>
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Another Butler County resident, 67yo Pamela Middlebrooks, was attacked by a neighbor's pitbull while on her daily walk. When she saw the neighbor and dog approaching, she stepped off the curb to avoid being in close proximity to them. The owner even picked up the dog, but it immediately broke free of his hold, ran after Middlebrooks, and attacked her from behind. Fortunately but atypically, he was able to wrest his dog off of her and returned it to his domicile. A neighboring witness, Terry Brown, ran to help Middlebrooks and described her visage as thus; “She had blood all over the inside of her legs. Blood was running down both thighs.” The owner had the gall to tell her the dog wasn't his--after first taking it and placing it back inside his home. Officers' subsequent investigation revealed a backyard kennel with a female pitbull.(28)</div>
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A third Butler resident--a black Labrador retriever in Hamilton, lost an ear to a pitbull serially loose in the neighborhood. Officers and Animal Control finally caught the offending dog on the same Monday morning that Pamela Middlebrooks was attacked and Cindy Whisman was killed.(28)</div>
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In Hot Springs, AR, a pitbull mix invaded an elderly woman's yard with escalating hostility toward the 72yo and would not leave until she fired a shot in the air(10).</div>
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3 scrapyard Rottweilers killed a 57yo man working there. He was employed there for years, and was reportedly a very kind man who "took care of those dogs like children".(13)</div>
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An Ardrie pitbull with a previous history of "incidents" as described by local Mounties broke free of its collar and leash to get at and kill a neighbor's loose, small, "poodle-type dog". (12)</div>
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When Anastasia Pavlova's business-as-usual trek to the Marcus Garvey Dog Run with her 3yo white Maltese, Bentley, she noticed a few unfamiliar dogs in the dog park. Before entering with Bentley, she asked the owners if their dogs got along with small breeds. All of them said yes, so she entered. In a flash, a large pitbull snapped up Bentley and crushed into his ribcage with jaws so powerful teeth penetrated his lungs. Anastasia somehow managed to free her dog and get to an emergency vet, but it was too late. The little dog bled out and died in Anastasia's arms. The owner of the pitbull immediately took off with his dog and never came forward. No one could identify him by name. </div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The article included quotes of blind speculation by the organizer of dog-run events, Millie Gonzalez, whose concern was clearly more for the public image of the pitbull than maintaining the safety of her human and canine dog-park patrons; after pointless speculation that would have the public believing this was not a dog-park matter because the owner of the pitbull "might have just been dog-walkers"--when the attack CLEARLY happened INSIDE the dog-park and was not a result of a random dog-walker's dog either attacking another dog just outside the run or somehow seizing an opportunity to break into the run--she was quick to say, "The last thing I want to do is demonize a breed that’s already been victimized,” said Gonzalez, 44. “This is an issue of what responsible pet ownership is.”(15)</div>
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81yo Jack Harper was walking his bichon frise, Fliss, in Weaverham when a loose Staffordshire terrier* seized her by the throat, ripping her windpipe, esophagus, and puncturing her skull in multiple places. Harper beat at the attacking dog with a stick to no avail. It took one heavy-booted bystander kicking it and another beating it with a pole to get the dog to release Fliss.(16)</div>
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San Franciscoan Mike Lindstrom's pitbull mauled 3yo German Shepherd Max. The attack was caught on a passing motorist's dashcam. The pitbull turned on Mike when he tried to stop the attack, even knocking him to the ground. Max ran from the scene at first opportunity and has not been seen since.(17)</div>
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A 40yo New Braunfels woman confronted by police (while trespassing) allowed her pitbull mix loose, which then went at them with hostility. The officers had to defend themselves with their service weapons. The article put quotation marks around "aggressive" when describing the dog, as if the very clear threat witnessed by multiple people was in question. (18)</div>
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A Lakewood, WA landlord was chased off his property and into a neighbor's yard by his tenants two English Bulldogs*. Neighbor Katherine Holmes described the scene; </div>
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A Lakewood Police official called the dog mauling one of the worst he's ever seen. The victim spent a week in Seattle's Harborview Medical Center.(19)</div>
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Another Lakewood man was attacked in his own home by the 2yo family pitbull. He was holding his infant child, and suffered over 20 puncture wounds to his arms and thigh to keep the dog from getting at the baby. A woman in the home (her relation to the man/baby goes unreported) also suffered injuries, while they were reportedly not as severe as the man's, both required emergency medical treatment. They went to separate hospitals as the man's wounds required higher trauma services not available in all hospitals.(20)</div>
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Later that same day, in a wholly separate incident, a little boy suffered injury to his back when a pitbull in the home attacked him. He was transported to Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus for treatment.(20)</div>
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5yo Quentin Holman of Kansas City, MO, required facial reconstruction after a loose chow-mix entered the boy's yard and bit him in the face. The article did not specify what other breeds constituted the dog's 'mix', but there were some startling aspects of the attack that parallel a methodology very specific to fighting breeds. </div>
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"I am very happy. My daughter is happy. But it's a happy-sad because we like animals," she said. "Because of his previous owner's neglect or abandonment, he had to fend for himself. And that's not a good thing, either."</div>
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However, no witnesses nor Animal Control reported the dog as appearing abused or malnourished. In cases of dog attacks in which the dog is determined to have been abused or neglected, it is among the first thing the involved animal professionals mention to the media... and many animal professionals wind up involved in processing dogs when they attack. (That will be a future post in its own right.) It is also notable that the dog in this scenario, despite having the opportunity to go after the 'easier target' right next to Quentin--the family Yorkie--the dog went after the boy's face and did not attempt to consume the boy's flesh.</div>
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A 50yo Eugene woman allegedly trespassing on a man's property suffered serious injury to her arm when his pitbull-boxer mix latched on to her and would not let her go until the owner intervened. To his credit; dangerous dog signs were posted on the property and the badly injured woman was cited for second-degree criminal trespassing.(23)</div>
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Two of Marty Stevenson's four pitbulls escaped and attacked a neighbor. His other pitbulls were already impounded for aggressive behaviors--which were caught on tape by his neighbors--and had not been released back to him because he failed to meet the city's requirements for proper enclosed cages, tattoo or microchip identification, and proof of rabies vaccination. Despite the bite injury and witness and video evidence, the article put quotations around every mention of the dog's aggression, as if it were in question, and also included the assertion (made by one of the owner's friends) that “I haven’t seen any dog bites or anything like that."(23)</div>
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A 27yo Bluffton man was on break at work when a coworker's pitbull spontaneously emerged from under a vehicle and savaged his lower right leg. He spent nearly five hours in the ER getting it treated and closed up.(24)</div>
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Californian horseback-rider Natalie Lilley and her 12yo daughter were out riding in the morning when two loose pitbulls went after them and sparked a chase. Lilley screamed at her young daughter to ride in the opposite direction. Lilley thought they could outride the dogs but the dogs overtook the horses and started snapping at stirrups and one of the horse's belly. She jumped off, hoping that alleviating the horse of her weight would enable it to escape. It still suffered deep lacerations and "chunks taken from its legs". The dogs' owner refused to give Lilley any form of identification and took off with the dogs before police arrived. They remain at large. (25)</div>
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Two Riverside County boys, ages 11 and 5, suffered bites in the head, stomach, and hand from a neighbor's pitbull that broke free of its restraint to attack them. The dog had previously been put on dangerous dog 'probation' for biting the owner's son in the head less than four months earlier.(26)</div>
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The force required to interrupt a family's internal pitbull vs pitbull fight was best dealt via a heavy cast iron pan. Unfortunately, when 15yo Brian Brown tried to do exactly that--hurling the pan to stop the fight--he missed and it fatally struck his twin brother Ryan in the head.(27)</div>
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17yo Davon Jiggetts of Riverdale, GA, was struck and killed by a car fleeing an attacking pitbull (which was also struck and killed by the same vehicle) that went after him right after he stepped off the bus home.(29)</div>
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Another Georgia teenager, 13yo Demonta Collins, was killed the same way in Augusta, only two days before Davon Jiggett's death.(29)</div>
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46yo Celiflora Maldonado was unloading groceries from her car when she was attacked by one of her neighbor's two pitbulls. That neighbor's dog-sitter was trying to get the dogs inside their fence when they attacked her, right before going next door and commencing with Maldonado's attack. Neighbor Johnny Campos described the sounds he heard; "Blood-curdling screams, horrible, something you never hear." 10yo Justin Melesio heard, came outside, and tried to help his aunt, frantically hurling things at the dog and screaming for help when his efforts proved futile. Maldonado's own children also came outside and tried to help. It took the efforts of more people--neighbors--to finally free her. Her arms and breast were so savaged she had to be hospitalized near Greenspoint.(30)</div>
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51yo Joan Carter of Lamaha Springs was killed by her sister's two pitbulls. She had been living with the family for over three months. These dogs were 'family' dogs of five years, with no previous history of aggression. 'By the looks of it', according to sister Sue, Carter had desperately fought and tried to get back into the house during the attack--she was found on her knees slumped over on the steps leading to her small flat. Blood pools and spatter remained smeared on the door and steps.(31)</div>
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A 1yo Racine, WI girl was mauled by her grandparent's pitbull. Another life-flight victim. (32)</div>
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One of four resident pitbulls lunged at a Middleton, Ohio police officer during the service of a drug search warrant/child-welfare check, forcing the officer to shoot the dog's muzzle in self-defense. The shot was non-fatal, and once the area was secured, officers immediately transported it to an emergency veterinary clinic.(33)</div>
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Ellen Mohan's dog Zoey was attacked by two neighborhood pitbulls. In her own words, "It happened in just the blink of an eye... I can’t even put it into words," she said. "I mean, it is your absolute worst nightmare. They tore my dog up in front of me. There was blood everywhere. Her intestines were coming out, I mean it was horrifying." She tried to save her little dog, but even with her boyfriend's assistance, the dogs managed to both mangle her hand and kill her little dog. Mohan suffered over 50 lacerations to her hands and had to remain hospitalized for a week. Other neighbors came forward to report being attaacked as well. Despite this, Northfield TWP released the attacking dogs to their owner for quarantine... residents no longer feel safe walking around their own neighborhood as a result.(34)</div>
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Two pitbulls went on the rage in Buchanan, killing one woman's cat in her own yard, a small dog in another yard, and one charged a police officer tailing their frenzy. He fired two fatal shots when the pitbull was within five feet of his person. The other, 30 feet away, was secured.(35)</div>
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1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-325039A1.pdf</div>
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8b.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-charles-county-toddler-attacked-by-family-dog-has-died/article_0fce4a27-d83c-5804-be60-7e6f39867fa8.html#.U-keUCxu1vA.facebook</div>
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11. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://dangerousdognews.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/dog-euthanized-for-viciously-biting-kc-boy-in-the-face-woman-in-leg-fox4kc-com/</div>
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12. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://dangerousdognews.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/dog-killed-in-airdrie-attack-mounties-say-owner-has-given-up-animal-to-be-put-d/</div>
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13. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://dangerousdognews.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/torn-by-three-rottweilers-in-the-courtyard-of-a-junkyard-observator-tv/</div>
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14.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2716890/Grandmother-59-mauled-death-family-pit-bull-Polo-two-year-old-grandson.html</div>
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14b.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/crime-law/dog-involved-in-fatal-attack-will-be-euthanized/ngw3y/</div>
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15.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://dangerousdognews.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/pit-bull-that-killed-bentley-the-maltese-sought-by-dog-run-organizers-central-harlem-dnainfo-com-new-york/</div>
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16.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://dangerousdognews.wordpress.com/2014/08/06/pensioner-helps-save-dog-from-vicious-attack-from-northwich-guardian/</div>
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17.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://dangerousdognews.wordpress.com/2014/08/06/german-shepherd-missing-after-pit-bull-attack-video-sfgate-blog/</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
18.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://dangerousdognews.wordpress.com/2014/08/03/new-braunfels-police-officers-shoot-aggressive-dog-san-antonio-express-news/</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
19.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.king5.com/news/English-Bulldogs-attack-Lakewood-man-269697741.html</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
20.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://dangerousdognews.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/the-lakewood-scoop-3-hospitalized-after-2-separate-pit-bull-attacks-the-heartbeat-of-the-lakewood-community/</div>
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21.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.kctv5.com/story/26192930/2014/08/04/boy-suffers-serious-bites-from-dog-roaming-neighborhood</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
23.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://dangerousdognews.wordpress.com/2014/08/06/woman-seriously-injured-after-dog-attack-news-the-register-guard-eugene-oregon/</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
22.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://dangerousdognews.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/lr-k-9-officer-escapes-bites-2-people-katv-breaking-news-weather-and-razorback-sports/</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
22b.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>https://www.google.com/search?q=dutch+shepherd&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS575US575&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=O8fpU5zPEMHB8QHr14HQDQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=680&bih=614#q=purebred+dutch+sheperd&tbm=isch&facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=yF0n6aB8zQSDzM%253A%3BTyXnoTvhwjRQUM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fupload.wikimedia.org%252Fwikipedia%252Fcommons%252F2%252F2e%252FHollandse_herder_korthaar.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fen.wikipedia.org%252Fwiki%252FDutch_Shepherd_Dog%3B600%3B450</div>
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22c.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>https://www.google.com/search?q=dutch+shepherd&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS575US575&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=O8fpU5zPEMHB8QHr14HQDQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=680&bih=614#q=dutch+shepherd+pitbull+mix&tbm=isch&facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=QVPYMw_W8ZNmJM%253A%3BGV2DYqO6yp7yGM%3Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fs3.amazonaws.com%252Fpet-uploads.adoptapet.com%252Fc%252F6%252Fb%252F95265266.jpg%253F336w%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.adoptapet.com%252Fpet%252F7870297-torrance-california-dutch-shepherd-mix%3B247%3B329</div>
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22d.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>https://www.google.com/search?q=brindle+pitbull&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS575US575&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=3c3pU8_BOMyI8gHJ64CACA&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=643</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
22e.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/05/mom-of-mauled-boy-says-people-more-concerned-about-the-dog/</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
22f.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.examiner.com/article/mickey-the-pit-bull-skirts-death-after-mauling-4-year-old-gets-life-sentence</div>
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22g.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>https://www.google.com/search?q=purebred+white+pitbull&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS575US575&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=E9PpU4CHAcn68QHyooDIBw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=643#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=2YYwke7lemt8mM%253A%3BnG9esh18OGnmyM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.petclassifieds.us%252Fuser_images%252F1675505.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.petclassifieds.us%252Fc%252F1461%252FPit-Bulls%252F2.html%3B640%3B480</div>
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23.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://dangerousdognews.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/4-dogs-taken-away-declared-dangerous/</div>
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24.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.thestate.com/2014/08/09/3610591/bluffton-man-bitten-by-dog-at.html</div>
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25.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.dogsbitedecatural.com/2014/08/saugus-ca-2-pit-bulls-charge-after.html</div>
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26.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.dogsbitedecatural.com/2014/08/indio-riverside-county-ca-neighbors-pit.html</div>
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27.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/26233439/15-year-old-boy-died-after-alleged-accident-with-twin</div>
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28.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.dogsbitedecatural.com/2014/08/hamilton-butler-county-oh-woman-on-her.html</div>
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29.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/2014/04/12/2-teens-running-from-dogs-killed-by-cars-in-2-days/7645005/</div>
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29b.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://sanctuaryofmary.blogspot.com/2014/04/demonta-collins-and-davon-jiggetts-two.html</div>
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30.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.click2houston.com/news/woman-hospitalized-after-vicious-dog-attack-near-greenspoint-area/27339478</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
31.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2014/08/06/woman-51-mauled-to-death-by-familys-pit-bulls/</div>
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31b.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.cesarsway.com/dogbehavior/top-10-dog-breeds-for-protection</div>
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31c.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.dogbreedslist.info/guard-dog-breeds/#.U-qGlfldX4A</div>
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31d.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.aspcapro.org/resource/disaster-cruelty-animal-cruelty-animal-fighting/dogfighting-faq</div>
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31e.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.ocfl.net/Portals/0/Library/Animals-Pets/docs/AnimalCrueltyNationalStatistics.pdf</div>
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32.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://whbl.com/news/articles/2014/aug/06/1-year-old-racine-girl-hospitalized-after-pit-bull-attack/</div>
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33.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/butler-county/middletown-community/police-shoot-pit-bull-during-middletown-drug-busts</div>
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34.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.wxyz.com/news/local-news/investigations/pit-bulls-released-home-after-killing-pet-sending-woman-to-emergency-room</div>
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35.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://dangerousdognews.wordpress.com/2014/08/03/cop-shoots-pit-bull-after-attack-on-smaller-animals/</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-65875458521188497682014-06-21T12:34:00.002-07:002014-06-21T12:35:06.816-07:00Hero Pitbull<span style="font-size: small;">Like many of my posts, this one is borne of commentary. Namely, the recent story about a pitbull that took two bullets. The story purports that Omar Persisco resisted two armed would-be truck thieves and was attacked. The dog lunged into the fray when blood was drawn. (Omar's forehead was grazed.) <span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><i>“[Max] saw the blood and was furious,”
Omar said. “He left like a rocket to attack the thieves. One of them ran
away but Max dominated the other one. To defend himself, the thief
ended up shooting my dog." </i> </span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">The dog took two shots in the chest and one in the leg. He made a full recovery in only a few weeks. Accompanying the article was an image of Persisco and Max (when Max was fresh from the fray and still in a cast).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In the comment section, fellow safety advocates shared their thoughts, such as; </span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>note: these are comments from different people; a person per paragraph, authors spaced between</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">(after comments that mused about the breed of the dog, speculating about being a boxer mix)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">They
are always Pit Bulls until they get into trouble, then they are "some
other" breed, that's how that works. They have websites you can go to
and pictures of mixed breed dogs and you can pick one and use that
breed.</span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:0"></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">The
hypocrisy is ridiculous. If this dog had attacked a child they would be
calling it anything but a pit bull. FWIW I see boxer too.</span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:0"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">I'm sure every once in a while the mauling instinct comes in handy and finds a suitable target.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0">'Hero
Pit Bulls' don't cut it for me, or anyone sane. No other breeds need
this kind of 'heroism' broadcast and shoved down our throats constantly
(oh, I wonder why...). Dogs of all kinds attack intruders, would-be
rapists, bark at fires etc-bloody-etc</span></span><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">.
THEY don't need these 'hero dog' labels that the damn Maulers do.
NOTHING they do can cancel out or make softer and better, the mutilating
injuries or the miserable and painful death of one child. 'Heroism'
does not resurrect the dead nor restore formerly innocent smooth faces
back to their former beauty.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742663872447010:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742663872447010:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742663872447010:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">people who want a protection dog should choose another breed not known for random violence </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742663872447010:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742663872447010:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742663872447010:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742706482442749:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742706482442749:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742706482442749:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">The dog just did what he wanted: attacked someone. That someone could be anyone. No heroism in it.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742663872447010:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742663872447010:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742663872447010:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742706482442749:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742706482442749:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742706482442749:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">With the exception of breed speculation, I agree with the above. I wrote;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742438675802863:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742459365800794:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742622092451188:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742660845780646:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742663872447010:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742663872447010:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742663872447010:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742706482442749:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742706482442749:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742706482442749:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Everyone's
already said what I think about these hero stories and the underlying
motivation of the dog (attack happy, not defense happy)... however, I do
see clear pit in that image. It's uncommon coloring, and the angle of
its head obscures the trademark cleft head, but the shape and
proportions are congruent with pitbull. (note; trademark 'pitbull
smile') I don't think every pitbull hero story is a wash.... that's
just too black and white for me; that's how nutters think. (i.e.
pitbulls are *never* at fault). </span><br data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$1:0" /><br data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$3:0" /><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$4:0">The
point I would remind fencers and the public is... is that is part of
what makes pitbulls so dangerous... their ability to, for a time, play
the part of a 'normal' dog. Their temporary docility and mimicry of
affectionate dog behavior misleads a person, lulls them into a false
sense of security, makes them think it is indeed an appropriate
companion animal. </span><br data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$5:0" /><br data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$7:0" /><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$8:0">These
behaviors are misconstrued as genuine affection akin to that in other
breeds, when in reality they are more rooted in the bloodsport kill-set
they were bred for... namely that the element of surprise is a plus in
battle, and therefore it is in a fighting dog's best interest to NOT
broadcast intent; they do not growl. They do not snarl. They do not
tense. They do not assume an aggressive stance. They just... GO,
suddenly, instantly, *without warning*.</span><br data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$9:0" /><br data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$11:0" /><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$12:0">Aside
from genetically endowed tactical deceit, this misleading affectionate
or calm behavior bonds the animal to its owner (via the owners emotions
and perceptions, not through a dogs deliberate motivation--one sided
love, if you will), which makes it all the harder to fathom anything
other than their limited personal experience with the breed, and makes
it harder for them to face the cognitive dissonance and opposing world
view that pitbull reality presents. </span><br data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$13:0" /><br data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$15:0" /><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$16:0">Think
about it; by the time abusers become obviously abusive, they've played
enough 'prince charming' to manipulate their victim's heart... it's very
difficult for a victim of domestic violence to absorb that the love
they feel is so real was a sham, a ploy, a manipulation... we are always
reluctant to give up things that we were so certain was good and right.
Humans intrinsically shy away from being wrong. That's why denial has
such a broad scope across differing issues. </span><br data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$17:0" /><br data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$19:0" /><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$20:0">What
I want people to understand/remember is that the very same 'good' dog
is no safer than the family pets that have suddenly turned and killed
their loving owners, children, friends, visitors, fellow companion
animals/members of the same 'pack' as people view it... </span><br data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$21:0" /><br data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$23:0" /><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$24:0">This
breed is incapable of genuine fealty, as is evidenced by the multitude
of aforementioned victims. Hell, the blog Craven Desires (and other
good blogs listed on its blogroll) has a tag for people that are
spontaneously attacked by their own pet/family dogs, titled 'Darwin
Awards'. </span><br data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$25:0" /><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$26:0">It
is NOT a short list. I think the average person
not-yet-familiar-with-the-issue would be stunned by how long it is, and
how frequently it happens within this particular breed.</span><br data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$27:0" /><br data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$29:0" /><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$30:0">What
it all boils down to is; yes, these hero stories can/do happen. But
that has no bearing on all the idiopathic attacks that have/do
happen[ed]. One doesn't cancel out the other. And when it comes to
differentials among breeds; true, genuine hero stories, such as this
one--where the dog runs headlong into danger in defense of or to save
its owner, well these are extremely rare in bully breeds. </span><br data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$31:0" /><br data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$33:0" /><span data-reactid=".4h.1:3:1:$comment742428915803839_742726085774122:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$34:0">By
comparison, you are much much more likely to be protected/saved by
established companion breeds such as retrievers. Serious/fatal attacks
can/have happened by other breeds but it is in such stark contrast that,
statistically, these other breed attacks are likened to flukes, while
serious and fatal attacks by pitbulls are common enough to establish
congruency of dangerous behavior in the breed.</span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-24688094947616356522014-05-15T14:42:00.002-07:002014-05-15T22:38:30.889-07:00Purpose Bred<div style="text-align: justify;">
This began as a riposte to a grossly misinformed commentator's blather about the origins of pitbulls, however, by the time I went to enter my comment, I was notified the article is no longer receiving comments. I included a fair number of resources, links, and information in my comment... I couldn't scrap it. It's a message I wish for all to hear, so I decided to copy and paste it, and expound on it as an entry/lesson in its own right.</div>
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The article; <a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/05/13/barbara-kay-attack-of-the-pit-bull-advocates/">http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/05/13/barbara-kay-attack-of-the-pit-bull-advocates/</a></div>
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Barbara Kay is an award-winning columnist, author, and radio/tv pundit who frequently parries sadistic pitbull mania as a result of reporting on pitbull news with all the hard facts many news outlets have been intimidated into glossing over. </div>
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As a result of her commitment to the truth (which so many find uncomfortable because it unseats their presumed and self-titled authority over a favored animal) and the subsequent debunking of popular lies, she is the recipient of a never-ending stream of obscene and fanatical hate. Still, she perseveres, and as her knowledge of and experience in the cause deepens, so, too, does it seem--her resolve to combat the frothing insanity with reason, logic, facts, and wit.</div>
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The Comments sparking my writing:<br />
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Ignoramus;<br />
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<u><b> Stephanie Eberhardt W****y</b></u><br />
Pits are not bred to be fighting dogs no more than chihuahuas are bred to be in a Taco Bell commercial.</blockquote>
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<i>[after a voice of reason informs her they were bred for dog-fighting] </i></blockquote>
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The original Pit Bull was used primarily for<i> boar hunting</i> as well as <i>companion and guarding purposes</i> and appears in paintings <i>dating back as far as the 1500s. </i>They then, due to HUMAN greed, went to bull baiting. So Gabriel, find another source.</blockquote>
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The Informed;<br />
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<u><b>Gabriel B****s</b></u> Stephanie Eberhardt W****y • 18 hours ago<br />
Do a search for books on pit bull boar hunting, count how many you find. Then do a search on pit bull dog fighting, count how many you find. </blockquote>
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You'll find <b>volumes</b> of books and articles on pit bull dog fighting. Don't forget to check Amazon. Free shipping of you have a premiere membership.<br />
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There are my sources. Pit bulls are primarily used for dog fighting, not boar hunting. I don't think you'll even find a book on pit bull boar hunting. LOL!</blockquote>
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<i>[the only mention of pit bulls in boar hunting are online comments from dog-sport enthusiasts--using the animals in hunting feral pigs within ONLY the last 10-15 years. Additionally, these hunts are extremely impractical and dangerous --especially to the dog, since these dogs are not used to merely 'alert' of a pig's location, but go 'all in' and fight these surprisingly fearsome swine-- and therefore a matter of recreation and sadism, not a kind of 'service' of culling non-indigenous pig populations (a big problem in the south, including my home state of Texas)... though enthusiasts may and do use that philanthropic cover for their activities. Battling, injury, and even death from feral pig or pitbull attack is often a very slow and painful process--certainly </i><b>not </b>a <i>humane</i> 'method'<i> of anything. Several animal services agencies have even issued bulletins to pitbull enthusiasts and shelters that the dogs are being procured for hog hunting as a <b>spectacle</b>--watching one animal kill another. This makes sense, given the history of dog-fighting evolving as various types of bloodsport; more on that later.]</i></div>
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Hate to bust your bubble so soon. <i>They were BRED for boar hunting.</i> Your original comment "they were bred to fight". And while there may be a buttload of books on dog fighting, that is still a HUMAN sport using dogs as weapons. I know this because I've been up close and personal with the dogs, the fighting, and the damage for more than 30 years. And truly, I didn't mean for you to go to the library although its encouraging that you have a card. You can Google on the computer. It too is a fascinating weapon</blockquote>
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By Stephanie's <i>own</i> standards, she <b><i>fails</i></b>, and also demonstrates her hypocrisy and failure to operate according to her own demands. Instead of posturing and bluffing, I decided to hit back with actual traceable resources... the product of, yes, Google, which yielded tomes of information derived from academic, third-party (objective), scientific, and historical sources. These sources are cited and easily accessible in the various links provided. A person can easily backtrack to the original texts for reference.</div>
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My textual parry would have been:<br />
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<a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/dangerous-dogs-pit-bull-faq.php">http://www.dogsbite.org/dangerous-dogs-pit-bull-faq.php</a><br />
Second question down answers and details the <b>history of dog-fighting</b> and the <b><u>origins</u></b> of the pitbull breed.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><b>Note: </b>There's a lot of hostility aimed at <a href="http://dogsbite.org/">dogsbite.org </a>by pitbull fanatics, who spew libel of 'lies' and 'bias' about the site. While it is true that the founder is a pitbull attack victim herself, that does not necessarily negate the content of her organization. If anything, in its own way, that fact validates her credibility.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>How? One of the most common things people suffering an affliction of any kind (an illness, cancer, loss of a loved one, permanent and life-changing injury) is to educate themselves about it as much as possible. Directly (self), or indirectly (loved ones);</i></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Domestic violence shelters tend to be run/staffed by those who have personal experience with it, </i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>people tend to specialize in the medical field according to their experiences with it, </i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>people tend to participate in causes and campaigns according to their experiences with it, </i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>donors and benefactors contribute to a cause according to their experiences with it, </i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>so on and so forth....</i></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i> To dismiss the legitimacy, research, and value of a given cause just because those operating within it are intimately familiar with it (and therefore <b>best </b>suited to educate and speak from experience with <b>real </b>authority) would be to dismiss the phenomenal work of groups such as Susan B. Komen's Race for the Cure and MADD (mothers against drunk driving).</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Additionally, in <a href="http://dogsbite.org/">dogsbite.org</a> and other organizations/blogs I list herein, hundreds and hundreds of references are used from all sorts of external, unbiased, unaffiliated sources...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>...from physicians, scientists, universities, studies, news groups, authors, animal control agencies, shelter workers, independent and/or firsthand film/pictures/testimony, historical archives, law enforcement, and animal specialists from around the country--even from around the globe. Many references <b>predate</b> the founder's <b>very existence </b>on this earth, and yet, according to blind or willingly deceptive fanatics, all are somehow supposedly 'in bed' with a person/organization many even recent sources don't even know exists.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>More compelling, the educational and charity groups involved operate with complete <b>transparency-</b>-the same cannot be said of the self-proclaimed 'experts' pitbull advocacy hangs its hat on. The specifics for <a href="http://dogsbite.org/">dogsbite.org</a>--> <a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/dogsbite-about.php">http://www.dogsbite.org/dogsbite-about.php</a></i></span></div>
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Another great site:</div>
<a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/american-pit-bull-terrier/"> http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/american-pit-bull-terrier/</a><br />
about page--> <a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/about-us/"> http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/about-us/</a><br />
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pitbulls <b><i>did not exist until the emergence of dog-fighting</i></b>, because they were PURPOSE bred for dog-fighting. Pitbulls were the deliberate mixture of the bull-baiting bloodsport champion breed--Olde English Bulldogges (for strength--especially superior jaw strength--and aggression) ...and terrier breeds (speed, agility, prey-drive, and tenacity). </div>
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It is of note that <i><b>bulldogs</b></i> (a closely related, ancestral, but still<b> distinct </b>and<b> separate</b> breed from pitbull terriers) were used in bull-baiting--that is part and parcel of the breed name. </div>
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In 'layman's terms'; Bulldog may = great great great great great great great great (insert as many greats as needed) grand-pappy of pitbull, but bulldog =/=pitbull. Bulldogs<b> predate</b> pitbulls and can be tracked to the 1500s, but the pitbull terrier breed <b><i>canNOT</i></b>--because <i>it did <b>not </b>exist then.</i></div>
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There exists <b>no</b> certifiably dated painting of pitbulls <i>that conform to the breed standard</i> that dates back farther than the last 150 years. There do exist <i><b>bulldog</b></i> paintings in accordance with Stephanie's time-frame, but their breed is <i>unmistakable</i> to anyone:</div>
1. <b>capable of reading</b> and<i> viewing</i> a breed standard and <br />
2. <b>with working eyes</b>. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Need not be 20/20, even, but enough to dependably ascertain color, texture, size, and shape.</span><br />
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The pitbull terrier as a breed <b>emerged in <i>the mid 1800s</i></b>, with origins in England and Ireland, and heavily exporting to the US after dog-fighting was banned in the aforementioned countries.</div>
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Before dog-fighting was outlawed in the US, it was explosively popular, and <i><b>many</b></i> books, magazines, and even news items were written about the sport and game dogs... in fact, the UKC was originally created as both a legitimate way to 'recognize the breed' (the breed was that <b>new</b>, and the AKC would NOT do it precisely because of the breed's FIGHTING ORIGINS) and as a register for <i>fighting</i> dogs.<br />
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Returning to the boar-hunting claim for a moment; how credible is the assertion that it is more cover for sadistic bloodsport than utility?</div>
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It lies within the historical adaptability and ingenuity of those who love watching animals die. Bulldogs were used for bull-baiting. When that was outlawed, for a time, cock-fighting became 'all the rage'. When that was outlawed, grotesque and impractical dog ratting competitions became hot stuff. When that was outlawed, bloodthirsty men set the dogs upon each other. It stands to reason--since dog fighting is now illegal, but hunting boar with dogs is not, that they could/would/have avoid(ed) legal recrimination by moving the desired battle-to-the-death onto foes that skirt law-breaking.</div>
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Though something should be said for the diversification of animal bloodsport--fanatics try to invalidate BSL (breed specific legislation) by claiming that, were the breed banned, the 'bad men' would just move on to fighting other dogs. There is so much folly in that I can't even think of a witty analogy about it. </div>
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The reasons that justification<i> is a <b>problem</b></i>;</div>
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<b>1.)</b>the heritability of physical conformity and behavior. 'Form follows function.' Dog behaviorist and author Alexandra Semyonova explains in scientific detail how, when dogs are bred for a certain behavior, their physical body evolves and changes shape to optimally fit the task--in a nutshell--the basics of evolution. </div>
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Huskies look the way they do because they were bred for heat economy. </div>
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Greyhounds have their telltale physique and deep chest for optimal oxygenation while sprinting. </div>
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The border collie's skeleton (on which physique rests and therefore affects shape) is optimized for stalking behaviors that would cause acute arthritis in other breeds.</div>
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<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/14810086/Heritability-of-Behavior-in-the-Abnormally-Aggressive-Dog-by-A-Semyonova"> http://www.scribd.com/doc/14810086/Heritability-of-Behavior-in-the-Abnormally-Aggressive-Dog-by-A-Semyonova</a></div>
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Certain characteristics are ideal for bloodsport, and selective breeding only accelerates and exaggerates the process. Take the Russian fox experiment, for example. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox</a> A team of researchers started breeding Russian silver foxes for desirable companion <b>behaviors</b>--diminished aggression, affection for humans, etc.. In the span of less than 52 years, this breeding program dramatically altered not just the natural behaviors but the very appearance and shape of the foxes. They went from this:</div>
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This is firsthand evidence that specific task breeding develops a certain physique. Breeding dogs for fighting will inevitably elicit changes that generate the pitbull breed all over again. It wouldn't take a rocket scientist or collective army to modify legislation as new problem breeds develop. It WILL be possible to identify the products of continuing dog-fighting. Creating an open-ended ban of fighting breeds is the most responsible and sensible course of action to take. </div>
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We added amendments to our constitution (civil rights) because it was the right thing to do, and the fact that doing so could not eradicate problems and injustices a 100% <i>was not</i> grounds for maintaining the negative, violent, and abusive status quo.</div>
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<b>2.)</b>that is suggesting we<b> </b><i><b>enable <u>criminal </u></b>behavior </i>by doing nothing to counter and resolve the problem. when banning fighting breeds, possession of a fighting breed becomes a tip-off for illegal activities--in that sense, banning serves as a positive for the breed. Eliminating supply makes it harder to fulfill demand, and making the components of criminal activity illegitimate makes it harder to hide. Right now, it's extremely easy for dog-fighting rings to hide 'in plain sight'. These people probably have the strongest vested interest in fueling and perpetuating fighting breed propaganda--especially considering individual fight purses can run as high as 100K.</div>
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<b>3.)</b>just because criminals are capable of adapting their chosen crime by finding new ways/tools to fulfill their sadistic needs, does not mean a 'war' against what they're doing is futile, pointless, and without value. Drunk driving is illegal, but it continues to happen on a wide scale--because it cannot be eliminated wholly, should we throw in the towel and repeal punitive drunk driving laws?</div>
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Throughout history, drug purveyors developed (and continue to do so--think crack as the poor mans cocaine, bath salts to replace PCP, krokodil as a cheaper meth alternative, and synthetic marijuana to substitute the obvious) alternatives to various drugs. How on earth does a new problem make an old problem a free-for-all? It's not just reckless, dangerous, childish, and senseless; its lazy and a nihilist non-solution. </div>
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"Why bother because bad stuff still happens"? That is what waxing on about other dogs being victimized is... an attempt to excuse doing anything to stop the current victimization (which sucks in countless innocents and destroys lives in its wake). That sort of attitude would cease the study of and development of new medicines for viruses and bacteria because they continue to evolve and develop resistance against current medications. These pathogens will continue to evolve into something else but that will never change the fact that the old ones will continue to exist and afflict ...and will continue do so indefinitely unless we continue being proactive about eradicating them.</div>
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Here is part of an interesting expose on the foundations of the pitbull breed: <br />
<a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2010/05/1909-fatality-john-p-colbys-fighting.html">http://blog.dogsbite.org/2010/05/1909-fatality-john-p-colbys-fighting.html</a><br />
(it specifically addresses the falsehood that 'man-biters were culled' and is testimony to the breed's<b> fighting origins</b>)<br />
Please note, at the bottom of the entry is a full list of external sources full of great information from <b><i>HISTORICAL</i> </b><i>(not personal musing)</i><b> sources<i>.</i></b><br />
Adding to the massive oversight in pitbull breeding practices (aka the aforementioned 'man biters were culled' lie) is an additional, highly disturbing fact worth mentioning (as noted by a commenter on the Craven Desires blog entry on Colby); <br />
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The Colbys also had a 2-year old child that died. She might have died from many different causes, including having her neck torn open by a Colby dog.</blockquote>
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<i>[The commenter provided the link below, but Florence's name does not
appear on the genealogy anymore. The link was provided in May 2010,
over four years ago at the time of this writing, and Craven Desires has
drawn a lot of negative attention from pitbull fanatics. It's highly
likely the Colby family may have decided to obfuscate the record.
However, the child's existence cannot be entirely denied, via the
headstone below the link.</i><br />
<i>I think it is also very telling--the fact
that this child's life and death were conspicuously struck from records
post dog-fighting expose... Speculation alone is not nearly as telling
as when that speculation moves someone to action/hiding--what is there
to hide? Why hide something... unless it affirms something you don't
want known? ...and the Colby line is quite a source of wealth for some
in these contemporary times...]</i></div>
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<a href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colby/colbyfam/b198.html#P26749">http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colby/colbyfam/b198.html#P26749</a><br />
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More on <b>Colby</b>--> <a href="http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2010/05/john-p-colby-fountainhead-of-american.html">http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2010/05/john-p-colby-fountainhead-of-american.html</a><br />
Also of interest:<br />
Check out (and by check out I mean at the library or glimpse through at the bookstore; considering who the authors are* and what any profit goes to...): <i> </i><br />
<i>COLBY'S BOOK OF THE AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER: by Louis Colby and Diane Jessup</i> 192 pages, hardback. ISBN# 0-7938-2091-X<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">*Diane Jessup is a nutter warranting her own chapter.</span><br />
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Pitbulls were not 'chosen', they were CREATED for the sole purpose of blood-sport. That is what purpose-bred means. They were <u><b>never</b></u> guard dogs, or farm dogs, or herding dogs, and certainly <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><u>not</u> nanny dogs</i></b></span> (that deadly obscenity still circulates today, even though pitbull advocacy juggernaut BADRAP itself flaccidly acknowledges the lie). I think everyone should read <a href="http://thenannydogblog.blogspot.com/">http://thenannydogblog.blogspot.com/</a> just as everyone should learn about the dangers of fire, wild animals, driving safety, etc..</div>
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Refusing to address the issue, and allowing animal fanatic sociopaths to continue disseminating dangerously false--fatally false!--propaganda that places, essentially, canine timebombs-under-cuddly-companion-guise is what continues to create tragedies like these:</div>
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<u><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">WARNING:</span> GRAPHIC/TRIGGERING IMAGES</span></b></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">SOME OF <i>EXTREME</i> BODILY INJURY/DEATH</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;">These images are for the express purpose of educating the public about dangerous dog breeds and what they are capable of and frequently do to their human victims. These images and the use thereof is protected under the Fair Use Act.</span><b><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>These are the potential side effects of pitbull ownership/affiliation/encounters. If only it were as easy to warn people about these animals as it is to view the side effects on a label of medication or pack of cigarettes.... People are actively working to subvert the truth, with the flimsiest of excuses and the boldest of lies. Hey, not every drunk driver crashes every time they drive, not every smoker gets lung cancer... so those are safe right? </i></span></span></div>
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Included below are some thought provoking visuals. One of which is physically graphic.<br />
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note; I am <b>not</b> the mind behind the following two creative and compelling images, but a fan of their message. If you've read Kay's original piece (link at the top), you can surely understand why people may be reluctant to attach their names... safety advocates and truth-tellers are harassed, fired, alienated, lied about, have their identities stolen, lives threatened (especially media reporters--even when reporting only the facts), have their homes and loved one's grave-sites vandalized--I'm NOT kidding! (the most egregious being the vandalizing and breaking of a small child's grave) among other things...<br />
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examples evidencing the severity and frequency of such obscene bullying and harassment can be found at <a href="http://fatherofdaxton.tumblr.com/">http://fatherofdaxton.tumblr.com</a>, under a post labeled 'hate mail'--while it was actively updated, new volleys of grotesque harassment appeared on a daily basis (according to the timestamps of the communications sent, not according to update dates--so many were coming in he updated around a weekly basis.)<br />
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Several blogs on the issue have similar (hate mail) sections where the public can see for itself<i> just how horribly<b> threatening </b>and <b>abusive</b> fanatics are </i>to <i>decent </i>and <i><b>grieving</b> people</i>.<br />
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For this reason, I do not presume to attach names on these unless specifically desired by their respective creators. If you are the proud producer of either of these, you need only to say the word and will put credit where credit is due.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-2721624940969340232014-04-04T12:24:00.000-07:002014-04-04T12:24:36.879-07:00Commentary on the employ of PC in worsening an epidemicSometimes you can read the comments about a complex issue and some of them are so simultaneously succinct and profound that <i>the comment itself</i> is worth quoting. I often find such gems, and I hope no one minds if I do some copy paste here. The comment is in response to the newest Craven post about the GM outrage compared to the dangerous dog un-rage; <a href="http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2014/04/cultures-of-cover-up.html">http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2014/04/cultures-of-cover-up.html</a><br /><br />both are horribly tragic and preventable problems. One results in over 30 deaths per year (albeit, the numbers for this year are shaping up to be--most likely, around <b>1 fatality<i> a week</i></b>) and the other, in a little more than 1 death per year (13 deaths in over a decade). One is being discussed, <i>the other is being <b>silenced</b></i>. Our culture is sending us a message;<br />
the loss of human life is so extraordinarily tragic and awful that it must be accounted for and prevented by<i> any </i>and <i>every </i>means imaginable, and any and every entity involved <b>MUST PAY... </b><br />.<i>..unless</i>, unless <span style="font-size: large;">dogs </span>are involved. Ours is truly <b>a culture of dog worship</b>. Even when the human lives being lost are those of the elderly, children, BABIES (and those are the most frequent victims of so-called 'family dogs'), <i>dog reputation comes <b>first. </b></i> <b>Any</b> means are deployed to that end--including incorporating<b><i> irrelevant</i></b> concepts and issues such as racism and discrimination. In doing so, they play off the now-neurotic and compulsive demand to <i>always</i> operate with PC language and behavior, even if unto <b>crippling </b>society's ability to <b>appropriately</b> react to/handle a <i>worsening epidemic</i>. One comment put it thus;<br /><br />
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<i>"<u>Dayna H******n</u> said...<br /><br /> This is where our culture of Political Correctness has gotten us. It's not ok to discriminate against a effing BREED of DOG anymore. A DOG!!! Lord help us because we are literally going to the dogs, the pit bull dogs."</i></blockquote>
<br />And the comment that started this post, that really touched on the heart of the matter, IMHO, was in response to that;<br /><br />
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<i> "<u>Anonymous Mom in E****e</u> said...</i><br /><br /><i> Anon says:</i><br /><i> "If they are so sentient and aware that it is possible to discriminate against them, then we can try them as dangerous felons and they can go to doggy jail."</i><br /><br /><i> EXACTLY</i><br /><i> Nutters want to have it both ways- either pits KNOW they are hated, or they do not. Nutters rather toss their OWN human supporters in jail rather than restricting the dog that killed.</i><br /><br /><i> Dayna:</i><br /><i> Couldn't agree more, it is an eternal frustration for a liberal like me, that this is so out of hand.</i><br /><br /><i> IMO- In its original, basic form, PC was actually helpful. No longer using ugly racist/gender slurs in daily language, and considering how the words you use impact others, *was* a real improvement.</i><br /><i> Now PC has been perverted, and turned into a tool of censorship.</i><br /><br /><i> I am also frustrated that pit bullies have co-opted the language of racial equality and empowerment. It is disgusting to me to see pit bullies stealing the ideas, work, and sacrifice of generations of civil rights workers, just to pervert it in the service of fighting dogs.</i><br /><i> IMO, anyone that compares the plight of dogs to the plight of any peoples, is a POS of the lowest level. This is morally repugnant, and completely disgraceful and inappropriate." </i></blockquote>
<br />THIS, Anonymous Mom in E****e, this.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-74307222934662895332014-03-27T12:08:00.000-07:002014-03-28T11:04:19.771-07:00Exploiting Victims, Pitbull StyleI will be updating in the future about the story of Kevin, the little four year old boy brutally mauled by a vicious pitbull named Mickey, the insanity that followed, the lies perpetuated to further the canine world's bloodiest propaganda, and the outrageous culmination of what can only be described as an absolute abortion (and I hate using that word in an abstract sense, but it's the only one that 'fits') of justice.<br />
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However, it is<i> so</i> deep,<i> so</i> complex, and there is <i>so much</i> material to present, that that will be a while yet in coming. dogsbite.org, Craven Desires, and affiliates in their extensive blogrolls have done a wonderful job thus far of covering the issue. I am making this post before I go heavier because this one is more urgent. <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">It's imperative to warn people of scams <i><b>immediately.</b></i></span></span><br />
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The Facebook group FOR THE LOVE OF KEVIN* is NOT a genuine victim support page. I repeat; the Facebook group FOR THE LOVE OF KEVIN is a RUSE, designed to draw in people curious about the issue and perpetuate forth more pitbull apologia, <i>silencing </i>those that would <i>call them out on it.</i> This would certainly <b>not </b>be the first time pit zealots have created identical victim pages for the purposes of disseminating misinformation to the general public (that's a whole other post in the making, believe-you-me), and disturbingly, it <i>won't</i> be the last.<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/welovekevinvincente">https://www.facebook.com/welovekevinvincente</a></i></span><br />
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Quite telling is the fact that comments by victim advocates and those sensitive to the issue were <b>aggressively stripped.</b> Despite claims that the page is <i><b>not</b> about pitbull advocacy, </i>in a thread where victim advocates had<i> only a handful</i> of sensitive and <i>to the point </i>comments <i>asking for a little discretion</i>, the <b>only</b> comments that were allowed to <i>remain </i>where those of another commenter issuing forth <b>post after post of pitbull propaganda</b>--posts which had <i>nothing to do with Kevin</i> or <i>anything else but <b>breed advocacy</b></i>. The multitude of these off-topic posts remain <b>untouched.</b> The group's <b>function is <span style="font-size: large;">not</span> following its stated form</b>.<br />
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I will summarize with my personal FB post issued to warn people about<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b> the Facebook group FOR THE LOVE OF KEVIN</b></span> *<br />
<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*yes, I am purposely repeating the name of the group to boost it's relevance in search engines--I want to warn as many people as possible that the Facebook group FOR THE LOVE OF KEVIN is a ruse, a scam, and a gross exploitation of a family already too abused and misrepresented (when represented at all)</span></i><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">What's really going on at the For the Love of Kevin facebook group??<br /> WARNING!!<br /> <br />
I've been one of the biggest supporters of the Facebook For the Love of
Kevin group. I have shared links to it all over the place, outside of
Facebook, even. I have directed people there so they can learn the
truth about what really happened, and so they can proffer assistance to a
family who *really* needs and deser<span class="text_exposed_show">ves it. <br /> <br />
However, when a thinly veiled attempt at pitbull apologia started
spamming a victim's page with pitbull propaganda... and I called her out
on it, albeit POLITELY, my focus being on staying on topic and
supporting Kevin and his family... <br /> I was kicked from the group. <br /> <br />
I would seriously reconsider what you share there, guys, and I'm
starting to wonder just who the mod is there and what they're really up
to. This is unbelievable. I'm beyond disgusted, and flabbergasted. I
mean, have I missed something? Is it now the sane thing to do to post
pictures of pitbulls and kids all over the page of a CHILD pitbull
VICTIM? Is that classy now?<br /> <br /> As an aside... can anyone here
speak Spanish and get into contact with Kevin's mother? The only
thing we have from her is translated bits from TV interviews. I'm
wondering if the family is actually getting anything from these
so-called support groups soliciting donations. I wouldn't donate a red
cent more till we get to the bottom of this.<br /> <br /> <b><span style="font-size: large;">EDIT</span>; </b>it does not
appear to be a direct kick, but that the mod was so obsessive and
incensed about the thread they were deleting comments by me and others<b> </b><i><b>immediately</b> upon submission</i>, which gave the illusion of being blocked.
The image was removed* but supplanted by childish <i>accusations of
hate</i>--over issuing that pitbull victims often feel re-traumatized by the
images of pitbulls and children (especially families who've had their
<i>own children savaged and<span style="color: #cc0000;"> even <b>killed</b></span></i> by these dogs, some of which were
doppelgangers of the one in the photo in question). Concern for the
emotional and mental well-being of the people who can empathize with
KEVIN--<b>who the page is s'posed to be about</b>--the MOST=hate?<br /> <br /> I
really must've touched on a nerve. That sort of extremism comes from
someone who's been unwillingly outed and has to cover their tracks, but
has no <i>real</i> means of rebuttal other than going ad hominem at the
truth-sayer.</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="text_exposed_show"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>*<b>EDITEDITEDIT</b> the image was<b> not </b>removed, just displaced further down the feed by a decent post of Kevin and Flor AND the puerile you-are-haters paragraph-long-rant (</i>also<i> a bit telling in a group where just about every update that is</i> not <i>about thinly veiled pit-a-ganda is rarely composed of more than a sentence or two)</i></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="text_exposed_show"> Well, I may get kicked yet, since I piped in after
a request for Kevin's family's contact info, wanting to be sure
anything issued forth is ACTUALLY going to the family, and the group
seems a bit shady to me...<br /> I think we'll have a definitive answer in the group's recourse. Kick=they are a SCAM.</span></span></blockquote>
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<u><b>UPDATE;</b></u> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>scam</b></span> status <b>confirmed</b></span>. Other Kevin supporters/victim advocates had the same experience, reading through no less than 20 other accounts of shady behavior and experiences between supporters and the group. These harassed and silenced voices belong to kind and generous people with their<i><b> own</b></i> painful tragedies, who pointed out that images of pitbulls and children are often re-traumatizing and ignite flashbacks, panic attacks, night terrors, anxiety, and PTSD. (And these flashbacks aren't the stuff of band-aids and soap--we're talking degloved (i.e. traumatically 'skinned'--<span style="color: #660000;"><i>what happened to KEVIN'S FACE</i></span>) and/or severed body parts, exposed bone, dangling eyes, crushed bones/skulls, spines ripped out, decapitations...) <br />
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...When confronted with the question of where their focus was, what's more important... Kevin, or a dog breed's reputation... they kicked and/or removed commenting ability from anyone sensitive to the pitbull issue (i.e.--<b><i>Kevin's peers</i></b>, <i>fellow victims</i>). In doing so, it is crystal clear where the group's priorities are... and <i>are<b> not</b></i>. <br />
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They favor <i><b>alienating </b>those that <b>help</b> Kevin <b>most</b></i> to coddle and promote <span style="color: #cc0000;">dangerously </span>misleading conceptions about dog behavior and biology (of which, fighting breed dogs have a <i>unique</i> physiology--dog behaviorist and animal professional Alexandra Semyonova describes these scientific and universal traits most succintly in her books and (is quoted) exerpts on dogsbite.org and affiliated blogs). <br />
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So, before you open your pocketbook to the <span style="color: #cc0000;">FOR THE LOVE OF KEVIN <b>Facebook group</b></span>, remember that Kevin is <i><b>NOT </b></i>priority numero uno. I recommend trying to contact the Vicente family <i>directly</i> if so inclined. Unfortunately I do not yet have the means/info to do so. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-25406112818538326972014-03-11T18:51:00.000-07:002014-03-29T02:01:32.518-07:00like battered woman's syndrome... but with more denial and recklessness!Wow... a day after I write about Kevin, Sport, and horrific pitbull attacks that result in blame, contempt, or apathy for the victims and a perverse, grossly disproportionate frenzy of favor for violent and unpredictable animals... <br />
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...comes a gruesome attack on the very sort of cold, ignorant, and/or immature human-specific-sadist that regularly advertises for the breed. Her rhetoric is typical zealot propaganda tripe such as:<br />
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"[posting] on Facebook ... 'There's not [sic] such thing as a dangerous dog. Just a dangerous owner.'<br />
"Another status was accompanied by a picture of a dog with its bottom in the air, reading: ‘To everyone who thinks that pitbulls are mean - you can kiss my hiney.’"</blockquote>
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i>
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2577329/Woman-22-left-skull-exposed-horrific-mauling-suspected-pitbull-terrier-disused-quarry.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2577329/Woman-22-left-skull-exposed-horrific-mauling-suspected-pitbull-terrier-disused-quarry.html</a></span></i><br />
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Here we have a typical 'holier than thou' animal advocate that fails to address any of the REAL and RELEVANT issues of the breed, while sanctimoniously ignoring or mocking those possessing any real depth of investigation and/or experience about the issue, asserting how allegedly ignorant BSL advocates/pitbull realists are. Among the universal attributes that emerge with type of person is an angry refusal to read ANYTHING that does not sync with what they want to believe (celebrity sound-bites and surface drivel from sites that *benefit* from advocating the breed). i.e. confirmation bias<br />
Another trait is a propensity to wax on about how 'close-minded' and uneducated a safety advocate is.<br />
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So now, one (with a second victim as collateral, I might add) of those staunchly stubborn 'breed ambassadors' has had her chosen breed rip her scalp off and deeply lacerate her face. <br />
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will she still insist it is only bad owners that are the problem? <br />
<i>Will she sacrifice<b> her</b> personal character on the altar of pitbull advocacy?</i><br />
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The most disturbing thing is... <i>she just might.</i> <br />
It's happened before. <br />
No, I'm not kidding.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?id=8605264">http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?id=8605264</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bill Lesinki</span> knew his friend's pitbull <i>since its puppyhood.</i> Still, that penultimately <i>meant<b> nothing</b></i>--despite claims that properly socialized pitbulls are no more dangerous than other dogs, or that they *must* be trained/abused to attack, Monster the pitbull attacked someone he was <i>very familiar with</i>, and <i>had no prior incidents of aggression with this man.</i><br />
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"I was just in shock that the dog did this because I was just playing with the dog prior to him biting me - about five minutes prior to that," he said.<br />
<br />
Lesinski was visiting his neighbor and, after playing with his pit bull, stopped to take a closer look at his neighbor's stereo.<br />
<br />
"I bent over, crouched down to look at the subwoofer, when the dog<i> lunged forward</i> and<i> grabbed me by the face</i> and <b>ripped the front of my face off</b>," he said.<br />
<br />
<i>Lesinski's nose was <b>torn off</b></i><b>.</b> He was taken to one hospital where doctors tried treating him. But by the time he was transferred to Northwestern Memorial,<i> it was<b> too late</b> for plastic surgeons to re-attach it.</i><br />
<br />
"Basically, I'm going to have to be like this for the next 9-12 months because of ... procedure after procedure that needs to be performed," he said.</blockquote>
<br />
He will need<i> at least</i> <b>six surgeries</b> to <b>reconstruct his face</b> which could rack up $200,000 in medical bills. Lesinski just started his own towing business and does not have insurance. <br />
<br />
Still, he continues to regurgitate the tired 'it's not the dogs, it's the owners' deflection. (I wonder what his long-time friend feels about that, since it implies he is a 'bad owner'...)<br />
<br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2013/06/kansas-to-kalamazoo.html">http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/2013/06/kansas-to-kalamazoo.html</a></span></i><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Sorena <span style="font-size: small;">and</span> Justin Frostad</span> are another example of how <b>irrational </b>and<b> disturbing </b>pitbull worship can be. They took the ill advice of pitbull apologists and figured they could introduce their newborn, Ariona, to their pitbulls (in much the same fashion as one would do with other dogs). They held their child close to the fence so that the dogs could sniff her and familiarize themselves with her scent.<br />
<br />
With <i>any other</i> <i><b>non</b>-fighting breed</i> this would be a <i>perfectly reasonable</i> course of action. Unfortunately, one of their dogs acted out it's violent genetic heritage and suddenly snapped out--THROUGH the fence--and <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>severed </b></span>their <b>2-DAY-old daughter's leg.</b></i><br />
<br />
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"The parents of the mauled Coffeyville infant, <span style="font-size: large;">Sorena <span style="font-size: small;">and</span> Justin Frostad</span>, spoke with members of the press several days after the attack. During the interview they <b>refused</b> to answer questions about the pit bulls, and made <b>no mention</b> of the <b>loss of their daughter's leg</b>. In fact, they appeared <span style="font-size: large;">not </span>to acknowledge the<b> lifelong repercussions</b> of their daughter's<span style="font-size: large;"> <b>missing limb</b></span>, and <i><b>their responsibility</b> for the loss</i>."</blockquote>
<br />
Even more disturbing is the mother's own written response, which insinuates that, since neither the breed nor herself is at fault, the severing of her baby's girl's leg was <i>nothing more than an 'accident'.</i>.. and that being the case, there is <b><span style="font-size: large;">no</span></b> cause--according to that un-logic--to stop her from <i>exposing her daughter to pitbulls in the future</i>. Why else find it so absolutely crucial to <i>continue</i> <b>being a part of</b> the bloody cycle of propaganda and violence?<br />
<br />
As a baby, Ariona won't remember the attack or the loss of her leg, but her future is riddled with <i><b>guaranteed</b> hardships </i>and<i> agony. </i> How will she feel about pitbulls in the future? It would stand to reason that, quite reasonably, she would at the very least be compelled to avoid them. Yet, there's a disturbing possibility <i>she might not...</i><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://tbo.com/sun-city-center/fundraiser-set-for-amputee-in-sun-city-center-20131113/">http://tbo.com/sun-city-center/fundraiser-set-for-amputee-in-sun-city-center-20131113/</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Vaughan Chambers</span> was savaged by a pitbull when she was <i>10 years old</i>. The dog clamped <b>down to the bone</b> and <b>ripped <i>away</i></b> the overlaying skin and muscle. She immediately received <b>286 stitches</b> and ultimately wound up enduring <i>more than 20 surgeries</i> to save her leg. <br />
Still, that was <i>all in<b> vain</b></i><b>.</b> <br />
<br />
The problems persisted<i> throughout her life,</i> and at 39 years old, her <i>lower left leg <b>died</b></i><b> </b>and was <b>immediately amputated</b> below the knee. The prosthetic to replace it, alone, cost $14,800.<i> Financial devastation</i> is the promise of her initial encounter with pitbulls, <i>just as it is for every pitbull attack survivor</i>.<br />
<br />
Despite all this, she is a fierce activist for pitbull propaganda.<br />
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<br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2011/08/2011-fatality-pregnant-pacifica-woman.html">http://blog.dogsbite.org/2011/08/2011-fatality-pregnant-pacifica-woman.html</a></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Darla Nappora</span> was a <span style="font-size: large;">member of BADRAP,</span> perhaps the <i><b>largest</b> organization manufacturing pitbull falsehoods in the name of <b>deifyin</b>g the breed.</i> Her <i><b>own</b> pitbulls <span style="font-size: large;">killed</span> her</i>, and thusly also <b><i>terminated the life of her unborn child</i></b>. Yet, when it is so obvious that such a fatal mauling is <span style="font-size: large;">with<i><b>out</b></i></span> rhyme or reason, her widower STILL <i>continued to <b>advocate</b> for the breed that <b>savagely killed his wife</b></i> and <span style="font-size: large;"><i>unborn child</i></span>. Greg claimed his wife's death was <i>nothing more</i> than a "freak accident". <br />
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"They are the <b>most <span style="font-size: large;">loving </span>animals</b> I have ever had in my life. Whatever happened right now was not the breed's fault," said Napora, who <span style="font-size: large;">found his wife <b>dead</b></span><b> </b>when he returned to the couple's Pacifica home from his construction job with plans to take her to lunch Thursday. <span style="font-size: large;">"It was just a freak accident."</span></blockquote>
<br />
He even had<i> the dog who ripped Darla's throat out</i><b> buried with her,</b> and made a <i>spectacle of asserting he forgave the animal</i>.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2013/12/2013-dog-bite-fatality-valencia-county-woman-killed-by-pit-bull.html">http://blog.dogsbite.org/2013/12/2013-dog-bite-fatality-valencia-county-woman-killed-by-pit-bull.html</a></i></span><br />
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Last year, <span style="font-size: large;">Michal Nelson</span> was killed by one of the family pets when she entered its pen to break up ice in the dog's water-bowl. Her body--upon which the dog was perched--was <i>discovered by one of her children</i>. Like Darla, the pitbull had ripped out Michal's neck.<br />
<br />
Boyfriend <span style="font-size: large;">Nicholas Hare</span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>excused, diminished, and <i>dismissed</i> </b>her <span style="font-size: large;">death</span>, and was far <i><b>more concerned </b>with the loss of her <b>killer</b></i><b> </b>and its peers; (emphasis added here)<br />
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<u><b>Nicholas Hare</b></u><br />
This something that came completely out of left field.<br />
I mean, <span style="font-size: large;"><b>it was her time...</b></span><br />
As horrible and tragic as it was, it was…<br />
It's <i>really hard to lose <b>five family members</b> </i>in one day basically <span style="font-size: x-small;">[referring to four pit bulls authorities euthanized due to <i>their aggression </i>and <i>his girlfriend</i><i>{'s</i><b><i> death}</i></b>]</span>, because <i>they were <span style="font-size: large;">our <b>children</b></span></i> for years and years.</blockquote>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-77756696865076262072014-02-24T23:27:00.001-07:002014-02-25T00:05:10.350-07:00Not a service breedhttp://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/leeds-dog-attack-emma-bennett-2913587<br />
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"Mum-of-four Emma Bennett, 27, was found unconscious at her home in Leeds with horrendous injuries to her head and face...</blockquote>
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"Witnesses spoke of “crazy” scenes as up to 30 police officers, including an armed team, descended on the street in Leeds.</div>
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"Another shocked neighbor, who wished to remain anonymous, said: “I saw
Emma in the back of the ambulance as paramedics were pounding on her
heart. She was just floppy.”</div>
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"...it wanted to go for her whenever she was having a fit [epilepsy]."</blockquote>
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<span class="userContent">A fourth (or is it fifth?) person to be mauled
during an epileptic seizure. She is younger than I am, with two more
children than I have. This is why pit bull bans make sense. This is
why pitbulls are <b>grossly inappropriate </b>for use as se<span class="text_exposed_show">rvice
dogs. They are <i>too unstable</i> to handle even a life of gentle love and
care at home with the people who <b>cherish</b> and feed them. The last thing a
community needs is to have such volatile animals roaming the community
at large, forcing their way into venues as "service" dogs to interact
with strangers and all sorts of stimuli they are not accustomed to. </span></span></div>
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> If
they are unsafe at home, under good care, where they feel safe, know a
routine, have no fears, have no worries, no unmet needs... <i>where on
earth can they be a <b>safe </b>companion? </i></span></span></div>
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> This is why safety advocates
protested bringing pitbulls into a school full of small children for
more propaganda fluff, ostensibly under the guise of 'literacy'. And
what makes these canine critters such excellent tools that aid literacy?
What amazing quality is it that somehow is deeply transformative of a
child's reading skills?<br /> They "listen".<br /> That's all.</span></span></div>
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Any other
smaller, safer breed could "listen". Fanatics trumpet "any dog can
bite" as if it were a legitimate and powerful counterpoint to gruesome and grievous
pitbull attacks....* well, then, "any dog can listen". Something that
does <i><b>not </b></i>pose great risk of dismembering children without provocation.
Any animal <i><b>in</b>capable</i> of tearing children apart could be a substitute.
Why not a "literacy hamster"? They can "listen". Even a pet rock made
of dung would be more appropriate.</span></span><br />
<span class="userContent" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span><span class="userContent" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">(in itself a
fallacy; yes, any dog can bite, but the end result is NOT the same.
hell, even plants can 'bite'--venus flytrap--ergo, the ability to bite
does NOT define equality or similarity with a specific animal or breed)</span></span></div>
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">Many pitbull fanatics brag about how they skirt bans and ordinances by obfuscating their dog's breed or arbitrarily registered it as a service dog, in hopes of using the legal system to impose their will, <i><b>and their dogs </b></i>on the public. Some are deluded enough to genuinely beleive these animals are great service dogs, on par with any other service animal.</span></span></div>
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">A bloody and escalating history of violence would beg to differ. Even discounting all attacks on humans and non-canine animals, the fact remains that these dogs have an undeniable neurosis for 'going game' on other dogs. It's what they were bred for, excel at, and succumb to most frequently. </span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">REAL guide dogs, of time-tested temperament to excel in this line of work are frequently attacked by pitbulls. Many do not survive. These are animals that spent hundreds of hours being trained and earning experience in what they do. Their testing was complex and lengthy--a hard-won prize, and they have no parallel.</span></span></div>
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">By contrast, pitbull 'service dogs' are of the Cracker Jack variety; a person sends a paltry amount of money to register their dog as a service dog--with no training, no testing, no verification--slap a vest on their animal, mislead and falsely advertise the breed. The result is in epileptics being caught unawares and grossly mauled--a few even unto death--because of the pitbull service dog farce.</span></span></div>
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">A TRUE service/guide dog must be able to accompany their charge anywhere and everywhere--which means they will be out and about in the community, exposed to all sorts of environs, people, and animals. It makes no sense to task a breed that cannot stand to be around other dogs/with a psychotic compulsion to kill other dogs with such circumstances that set them up to fail--and inflict a lot of collateral damage.</span></span></div>
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">Dog breeds are tailor made for their tasks, their tasks are an element of conduct, and ergo, their behaviors are a product of their breeding.</span></span></div>
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">Pitbulls were bred to spontaneously and unrelentingly tear other animals apart, and the rising death toll issues that they perceive humans to be in that category. Their aggression is neurotic and generalized (NOT animal/dog specific). If someone TRULY loved the breed/their pitbull, they would realistically manage their expectations for the dog and operate with a 'big picture' perspective allowing for the breed-specific tendencies of their animal. </span></span></div>
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">Pitbulls are a
horrific mismatch with the task of being a service dog, as poor a
pairing as expecting a teacup chihuahua to herd sheep, a pug to retrieve
water fowl, a dachshund to race, a greyhound to pull arctic sled teams</span></span><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">, or a Pomeranian to take down wild boars. These are simple facts of reason, common sense, and biology. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-30312161445256351572014-02-24T22:58:00.001-07:002014-02-24T23:46:14.739-07:00This is how they will lick you to death<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Some thoughts on another's FB post;<br />
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<span class="userContent">considering all the attacks (body parts torn
off and reduced to insalvagable hamburger) and fatalities this year,
this child got off 'light'. There's <i>nothing </i>'light' about this. What
this is... is <i>tragic,</i> and <i>frustratingly <b>preventable</b></i>. T<span class="text_exposed_show">his
girl, along with hundreds of other grievously wounded/killed people
(often children) is why I find the 'lick you to death' diversion/cop-out<i>
extremely </i><b>offensive</b>. Anyone who utters such words with seriousness
behind them, automatically winds up on my $h*t list until they wise up,
acquire a little bit of humanity/compassion, and grow a brain.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">Many erroneously trust in the safety of proximity to the breed, fostered by</span></span><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> the lick-you-to-death misconception... like this man... </span></span>and he lost most of his tongue for it; http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/23083854/man-loses-portion-of-his-tongue-in-dog-attack<br /> <br />
Wholly deceived by the propaganda, and with the additional amelioration
of years and years of non-aggression that lull people into a <b>false </b>
sense of security... a friend of mine lost her child, to a dog named
"Kissy Face" because she loved to lick "kiss" (hurk!) so much. Her two
year old baby boy was decapitated by Kissy Face; and as she succumbed to
the horror of the situation, she (Kissy) began mauling his lifeless
body all over again. <br /> <a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2013/12/video-mother-of-fatal-pit-bull-attack.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://blog.dogsbite.org/2013/12/video-mother-of-fatal-pit-bull-attack.html</a><br /> <br />
The phrase 'lick you to death' is a blight upon the most innocent and
helpless of humanity, and a tell-tale indicator of either gross
ignorance or greatly deluded, pompous narcissism (lion-tamer complex).</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-13562660494207867592014-02-24T22:52:00.002-07:002014-02-24T22:52:55.175-07:00Entreaty for re-evaluation<span class="userContent">As I frequently do, I wrote a comment on a
post and it just wouldn't quit. I end up writing so much stuff it's
almost obscene to pass as a comment, and should be a post all its own. I
was reading this today--> <a href="http://metisrebelunleashed.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/why-pit-bull-lovers-piss-me-off" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://metisrebelunleashed.<span class="text_exposed_show">wordpress.com/2012/08/15/why-pit-bull-lovers-piss-me-off</span></a><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> <br /> And THIS is my response :B <br /> (it's awaiting moderation on the blog itself, probably not visible yet)<br /> <br />
Great write up, though a few points are off.... pitbulls need <b>not </b>be<b>
im</b>properly trained/socialized or be abused to gruesomely maul someone
<i>out of the blue</i>. They possess<i> innate<b> </b></i><b>idiopathic aggression</b>... which
can<b>NOT </b>be tested for, predicted, trained out, or environmentally
harnessed. It is NOT animal specific, man-biters were NOT culled and,
if anything, pitbull fanatics today further pervert and contradict
themselves by making such a false claim... all the while hysterically
lobbying to free/save pitbulls that have savagely/fatally mauled people.
That is certainly not culling "man-biters". As one of my betters put
it; <br /> [near-paraphrase/reworded in my syntax] <br /> <i>"They were bred to
kill members of their own pack [ala dogfighting] and now that humans
have been adopting them into their 'packs', the blood is flowing."</i><br /> <br /> I strongly urge anyone and everyone, in furthering their reading about the truth of pitbulls, to use a source that is: </span></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> --objective, </span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> --fair, </span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> --uses science, evidence, and logic (rather than knee-jerk emotional appeals and fluff), </span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> --proffers documents, </span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> --evidence (video, pictures, etc.), and </span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> --testimony of formally qualified/educated professionals like; </span></span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> ----scientists, </span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> ----animal control, </span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> ----law enforcement (who have to deal with these dogs day in and day out), </span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> ----formally educated animal behaviorists, </span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> ----surgeons, </span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> ----veterinarians, and </span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> ----third party sources that do not have a vested interest in pitbull perception either way.</span></span></li>
</ul>
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> <br />
I also encourage reading multiple sources. I can name several pro-pit
sites off the top of my head at any given moment. I can do the same for
safety advocacy/truth-telling/ information/awareness/BSL sites.<br /> The best site I've found offering any of this is <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdogsbite.org%2F&h=0AQHNsOea&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://dogsbite.org/</a>
(which reports not just on pitbull attacks, but <b>*all* SERIOUS</b>--no
superficial little scratches or cutaneous nips, but <i><b>penetrating</b>
wounds</i>--<b>dog attacks</b>). <br /> <br /> The blogs and links are worth more than a
gander too; as the tragic and agonizing gauntlet of pitbull mauling
increases in frequency, so too, are there an increasing number of blogs
on the issue. There are personal accounts of attacks and experiences
(Confessions of Pitbull Victims, for one), and yes, some heavy
emotion... however, these are blogs, not formal news sites, and many of
the authors have been personally--self or loved one--attacked (in
multiple ways; often harassed, bullied, stalked, identities stolen,
false reports filed, etc. by pitbull extremists--I'm not kidding...
check out <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffatherofdax.tumblr.com%2F&h=OAQHK2rdL" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://fatherofdax.tumblr.com/</a> for some stomach churning examples), or have lost a loved one.</span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br />
True, the founder of dogsbite.org is a pitbull attack victim herself, but
having personal experience with a matter does <i>not </i>necessarily invalidate
the<b> legitimacy</b> of their work. Susan G. Komen's Walk for the Cure and
MADD come to mind. If anything, personal experience can <i><b>help </b></i>someone
serve a greater purpose. That which is emotive and that which is real
can be filtered through viewing/posting of <b> external</b> news, videos,
reports, etc., which can imbue a cause with substance.<br /> <br /> This
issue is so so deep and complex, ...trying to explain it all would turn
this comment page into an ocean of text that would better fit into
volumes. Though dogsbite and its blog companions (17 Barks, The Truth
About Pitbulls, and Craven Desires, in particular) address and
thoroughly DEBUNK the myriad <b>myths </b>and propaganda that has thoroughly
penetrated our society in the last 30 years... pitbull advocacy has succeeded in laundering the breed's image, so deeply that it
becomes taboo to utter <i>anything but praise</i> for these animals. Anything
else often makes one a social pariah and object of scorn.<br /> <br /> <b>The myths and fabrications they thoroughly debunk;</b><br /> <br /> __pitbulls attack because they weren't properly socialized<br /> <br /> __pitbulls attack because they weren't properly trained not to (note the innate vs. environmental contradiction in those two)<br /> <br /> __BSL doesn't work<br /> <br /> __BSL is more costly than no-BSL<br /> <br /> __pitbulls are only dog aggressive<br /> <br /> __pitbulls were once nanny dogs<br /> <br /> __pitbull is not a breed<br /> <br /> __it's all in how you raise them<br /> <br /> __its bad owners not bad dogs<br /> <br /> __pitbulls are just like any other dog<br /> <br /> __the media hates pitbulls and never covers attacks from other dogs<br /> <br /> __people misidentify pitbulls all the time<br /> <br /> __pitbulls must be abused, neglected, or provoked to attack<br /> <br /> __spaying and neutering will prevent attacks<br /> <br /> __pitbulls are great family pets<br /> <br /> __pitbulls are loyal<br /> <br /> __man-biters were culled<br /> <br /> __pitbulls are [appropriate] service dogs<br /> <br /> __people who are attacked are attacked because they are idiots/ignorant and couldn't read the dog's body language <br /> <br />
(pitbulls are unique in that they <b>do NOT warn</b> before they attack--no
growl, no rising hackles, no lifted lip, no flattened ears, no tensing
stance and tail, etc.. Dogmen--those that breed for and participate in
dog fighting--call this sort of warning indicator a 'tell', and
purposely <b>bred it out</b> of the animals to give them the element of
surprise. A common feature witnesses/victims that survive attacks notice
is how <b>sudden</b>, and how absolutely <b>quiet</b> an attack strikes. <br /> <br />
Dogsbite, 17 Barks, and Craven Desires have a couple of great exposes on
the history of dogfighting and the emergence of the pitbull breed.)<br /> <br />
__people who lobby for BSL are 'haters' (and granted, there are *some*
who do hate the breed, though they are the minority AND they have
suffered greatly, pets dismembered, people losing body parts, watching a
loved one at the brink of death, or worse--faces torn off, limbs
severed, decapitated, etc..) that "just don't like the way a dog
looks"... <br /> <br /> For most, this is NOT about hating a breed, but
PROTECTING people--children comprise the majority of pitbull attack
victims and most have not done anything to provoke the attack, many
<i>weren't even <b>near the dog</b></i> when it suddenly exploded like a rocket,
crossing a great distance to rend and tear flesh (another attribute
prized by dogmen--they call it 'scratching')--I personally actually
think the animal is handsome in form,<br /> <br /> ...but I appreciate the
dog the same way I can appreciate the beauty and strength of a
tiger--from a distance. It does NOT belong in the living room, it does
NOT belong in schools, it does NOT belong in backyards, it does NOT
belong in a public park... you get the idea.<br /> <br /> Pitbulls kill
hundreds of other companion animals each year--and these perpetrators
are just the socially integrated ones (i.e.pets), not counting the death
toll caused by and <i>within</i> the dog-fighting circuit. They also kill and
seriously injure livestock--animals as large as (surprise, surprise)
bulls, horses, llamas, etc.. For small, family agricultural operations,
this can represent <i>a loss so large they lose the income to keep food on
the table.</i> Without BSL, they often have <b>no legal recourse</b> whatsoever,
or that which is allotted is insultingly paltry.<br /> <br /> I would like
to add another point in how pitbull fanatics frenzied and fighting BSL
actually works *against* the humane and compassion treatment of
animals... the fact that continued integration makes it so so much
easier to<i><b> hide</b></i> dog-fighting operations, enabling more growth in the
illegal industry, and ergo greater <i>animal suffering</i> as a result. <br /> <br />
Many can now boldly run in-sight by passing off the animals as domestic
pets. They don't stand out among the neighbors anymore. To ban the
breed would make the presence of pitbulls quite the giveaway. Limited
in options and forced to sequester, dogmen would have a much more
difficult time of operating--nonetheless expanding--their personal
circuit.<br /> <br /> Please note, a ban does not mean some form of canine
Holocaust/genocide. Typically, banning requires spay/neuter of all
existing animals, registering them, grandfathering existing pets from
the ban, (so no..., no one is going to charge into another person's
house, confiscate their animals, blow away their dogs with bazookas,
round them up and gas them en masse, or whatever ridiculous scenario
the fanatics concocted and are presenting now). Within fifteen years or
so, these 'grandfathered' animals reach the end of their natural life
and no more new pitbulls are to be acquired or created. For the
interim, one must procure liability insurance, meet containment
standards (these dogs are profoundly athletic and require more measures
than merely fencing the average dog), have documented proof of
vaccination, register their dog, and muzzle it in public.<br /> <br /> I
think you said it perfectly when you asked: "how does this punish
'responsible owners'?" Responsible owners should<i><b> already</b></i> be taking at
least half these measures! People crying about punishment and
see responsibility as a considerable and 'wrong' imposition is akin to
someone claiming speed limits, traffic lights, and auto insurance
punishes responsible drivers. <i><b>Responsible</b></i> drivers should *already* be
operating with respect to those parameters... and therefore, have to
make no changes and are in no way inconvenienced as a result formal
regulation. <br /> <br /> The people that rail about punishment and
responsibility and so forth... are those who are *not* being
responsible. If they were, why would they have a problem
with making that responsibility formal (and thusly giving recourse to
those harmed by the irresponsible)?</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-77648559886263012662014-02-24T22:36:00.002-07:002014-02-25T00:09:20.800-07:00Service Dog Insanity--a faux 'crime' against a faux 'service dog'<span class="userContent">I often comment on articles/posts/status updates in an extremely lengthy fashion, especially when I've had some proverbial food for thought. These meandering diatribes become expansive enough to warrant their own post, and here is one such example;</span><br />
<span class="userContent"><br /> the post: <br /> <a href="http://www.dogsbitedecatural.com/2014/02/tallahassee-fl-pit-bull-medical-service.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.dogsbitedecatural.com/2014/02/tallahassee-fl-pit-bull-medical-service.html</a></span><br />
<span class="userContent">long story short; a woman went to visit a patient in the hospital and bought her 'service' dog pitbull with her. Hospital staff asked her to evacuate the dog, and did not acquiesce to her flimsy cries of service animal. </span><br />
<span class="userContent">(note; any dog can be masked as a service dog by paying a $60 fee to title it as such--no training, tests, conditioning, exams, or third party evaluation needed. These animals are most often touted as 'emotional support dogs'</span><span class="userContent"><span class="userContent"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">...These kinds of "service dogs" are the equivalent of pulling a
degree out of a Cracker Jack box. </span></span></span>.)</span><br />
<span class="userContent"><br /></span>
<span class="userContent">my response:</span><br />
<br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">how lovely
that [the syndication] omits entirely what the dog's alleged purpose is. A venue can
only be charged with a misdemeanor in denying access if the dog is a
<b>SPECIFIC </b>KIND of service dog, i.e. <b>guide </b>dog. Service dog =/=guide dog. There IS a difference. She's not blind, deaf, or significantly
impaired physically (though mentally seems quite another story). Those
are the qualifiers for unrestricted admission.<br /> <br /> I bet you
dollars to donuts this 'service dog' is nothing more than 'an emotional
support dog' with no real training or purpose, just a vest slapped onto
what obviously appears to be a former fighting dog (the docked ears) or a
"rescue". Pitbull fanatics brag--yes <i><b>brag-</b></i>-about how
they arbitrarily turn their companion animal into a service dog to
skirt ordinances that inconvenience them. They derive great pleasure
from their 'endeavor' and crow about 'beating the system'. (I think one
of the recent posts on Craven Desires showcases an example of one such
service-dog-joke nutter.)<br /> <br /> Additionally, the hospital was right!
The dog is yet another contagion whose purpose does not outweigh the
risk. Not by a long shot. You've got the canine champion of most
unpredictable, sudden, most frequent, and most brutal destruction
trapped in a building with society's <i>most vulnerable and helpless</i>
people.<br /> <br /> The woman was <b>not </b>in any need of medical care. Putting
her out was<b> not </b>harming her in any significant way. She was a VISITOR, not even family, and
<i>not </i>a patient. Ergo, the hospital was <i><b>not </b></i>denying a patient critical
medical care. If she's so unstable she can't handle bringing along a
friend or family member to substitute as her emotional crutch for a
little bit, just to see a sick friend in a controlled environment (not exactly a trying and nerve wracking ordeal), she's not really fit to be in
that environ anyway.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> I do not say this to denigrate, but more as an observation of mental fitness for certain environs. I say this as a person who knows what its
like to have a little baggage and not feel safe outside the home without
a companion close by (this phase has passed, obviously), but here's the
thing: I didn't expect the world to rearrange itself according to my
dysfunction.<br /> <br /> This smacks of boredom and a persecution complex.<br /> <br /> The hospital was right, PERIOD.<br /> <br />
Capital Regional Medical Center of Tallahassee, if you EVER
"apologize", I hope it is naught more than this; "We are sorry this
woman was uncooperative and deeply distressed by our unwavering
dedication to put patient safety first." I know where I'm goin' if I
ever need medical care in Tallahassee.<br /> <br /> <u><b>Addendum; </b></u><br /> Her
demand for an apology smacks of entitlement, but I do want to note that
there is an instance in which <i>I might understand</i> that desire... if they
were inappropriately rude or excessively terse with her from the get-go
about it. But that would be more about the <i>staff's behavior</i> than the <i>
service dog policy. <br /> </i><br /> Notably, she evacuated the premises when
the 'threat' of law enforcement was issued, which tells me she knew on
some level she was in the wrong--otherwise, why would someone with the
temerity to hit the presses over her non-incident not stand her ground
and assert she is doing no wrong? <br /> <br /> Now some might say,
perhaps, that maybe she was afraid her dog would be shot (since pitbull
fanatics hyper-fixate on the armed self-defense people must use against these animals).
However, in such a small place (ricochet risk), with countless
witnesses (discouraging 'bad behavior'), with great risk to self and
others if a firearm is discharged (oxygen tanks, etc.), law enforcement
would not discharge their weapon unless <i><b>absolutely </b>necessary</i>... i.e. the
dog is aggressive and threatening. <br /> <br /> If she left for the
<i>possibility of mere <b>police presence </b></i>alone (which, if she is truly
convinced she's in the right, would be the only reason to prematurely
depart), that means, on some level, she knew that contentious dog
behavior in that situation was <b>high enough a possibility </b>to warrant a
scootch-away.<br /> <br /> If her animal is truly a service dog, on par with
other service dogs, it should possess the necessary congruency of
temperament, documented background, and [what should be] extensive
training to not be phased by a plethora of varying environments and
people. If crowds, machines, different sights and smells, or even a
mere stranger elicits canine hostility, the dog is definitely NOT FIT to
be a service dog...<br /> <br /> and most likely was never formally
qualified by a reputable testing method in the first place. In some
jurisdictions, turning your dog into a service dog is as easy as filing
some papers, paying a fee, and slapping a vest on your dog. <br /> <br />
That, in conjunction with her fixating on the dog aspect of the
scenario, and not mentioning anything about the staff attitude toward
her, leads me to believe this is a case of--pardon the
vernacular--attention whoring, most likely eagerly exploited by the
pitbull lobby as a publicity stunt to push their product. That may sound conspiracy theory-esque, but when a single fight purse can go for tens of thousands of dollars, and this underground 'sport' nets billions of dollars, you can bet your buns there is high incentive to blind and distract the public from the dog's true purpose, so that they might be easily camouflaged in communities, thus expanding the range of the industry.</span></span> </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-12120886451295765102014-02-24T22:17:00.003-07:002014-02-24T22:17:54.647-07:00Motives Unveiledhttp://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2012.php<br />
http://nj1015.com/roselle-pit-bull-owner-begs-cops-to-kill-it/?trackback=tsmclip<br />
<br />
<span class="userContent">^Compilation of families betrayed by their
dogs, that wound up having to beg authorities to use <b>lethal force</b> to end the attack. Among these, are normal, everyday folk, like you, like
me, like anybody. ...Good to their pets, <b>not </b>thugs, <b>no</b><span class="text_exposed_show"><b>t</b> abusers, <b>not</b> "dog-men", <b>not </b>deviants, <b>not</b> hoarders,<b> not</b> delinquents, <br />
...many even feel they are helping make the world a better place,
buying into the social hype that makes <i>martyrs of dangerous animals</i> and
<i>villains of realists and accurate journalism.</i></span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><i><br /> </i></span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">Unable to support their dogma with evidence or logic, pitbull zealots frequently resort to spewing emotional accusations of animal hatred at victims and BSL supporters. (Many of which are advocating for legislation to protect their own cherished pets/livestock/animal preserves, but that point is lost to them--save but for pitbulls--in the minds of intensely biased and callous fanatics.) It is an last/only-resort appeal intended to shut down 'the enemy' in the hopes that they will be stigmatized and dismissed as negative bigots. </span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> It's time to stop
avoiding the issue, time to stop mislabeling and obfuscating. This <i>
isn't</i> about bigotry or breed hatred. This <i>isn't </i>about persecuting
innocent animals. This <i>isn't </i>advocating a genocide of some form. This <i>isn't</i> the next Holocaust, as much as pitbull fanatics would have you believe BSL means all pitbulls will be rounded up en masse, ripped from their homes, and slaughtered ASAP. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">(Actually, extremely moderate methods of BSL with successful results have occurred in many cities and other countries--they involve grandfathering existing pets from the ban, but prohibiting further breeding, mandatory registration, spay/neuter, vaccinations, approved containment structures tailored to the breed, and liability insurance, muzzles in public, and much harsher penalties for any infractions.) </span></span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">This is about taking an<b> appropriate</b> stance in regard
to a dangerous animal, allowing the truth to shine, and adopting more
appropriate attitudes and measures.<br /> <br /> The breed really isn't
appropriate as a domesticated pet. It's a powerful, unpredictable, and
highly lethal animal that requires treading with caution and all the due
respect of any large, <b>wild</b> apex predator. It is no more bigoted to remove
these animals from living rooms and family parks than it is to separate
those human realms from wild bears and mountain lions. Appreciating those animals from a safe distance does <i><b>not</b></i> equate hatred and bigotry but common sense and decency. It is exercising understanding due caution for the animal... the stance is one of <i>prevention.<br /> </i><br /> In a way... you could even say... it's about... <i>"<b>respecting </b>the beast".</i><br />
This particular beast is <i>man</i>-made and <i>man-maintained</i>. Tragically, it
is also man-<i>tortured</i>. The best favor to the breed would be to <i><b>cease </b></i>
<b>aiding </b>and<b> abetting dog-men</b> by camouflaging their operations in our
communities, drastically deplete and hinder their range of operation,
starve their industry dry by cutting the crap and eliminating the
further proliferation of a breed so grossly perverted and inbred (a breeding method used to produce an exaggerated trait as quickly as possible) that
all that encounter the animal--including <i>the animal itself</i>--often suffer
a bloody price. It would be kinder to gently let the genetic "freak-show" expire. This
could happen in as little as 15 years, if implemented.<br /> <br /> Remember; this is about LOVING our communities and ENDING this circus of canine SADISM, NOT hatred.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-48200387400175992222014-02-24T21:50:00.001-07:002014-02-24T21:50:27.198-07:00TRUE Animal Advocates don't enable and ignore the gross injury, suffering, and death of hundreds of innocent animals<h5 class="_6nl" data-ft="{"tn":"C"}">
<span class="fwb"><span style="font-weight: normal;">From the FB group </span><a class="profileLink" data-ft="{"tn":"k"}" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=287627354674042" href="https://www.facebook.com/ProtectChildrenFromPitBulls" id="js_4">Protect Children From Pit Bulls And Other Dangerous Dogs</a></span></h5>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="fwb"> </span>This post is chock full of data and numbers pertaining to animal victims
of pitbulls, and how this epidemic being swept under the rug--in the
interest of pitbulls only--by those who call themselves animal advocates
screams of hypocrisy.</span></span> </h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>https://www.facebook.com/ProtectChildrenFromPitBulls/posts/440001229436653</i></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i> </i></span></h5>
<span class="userContent">Among the spoon-fed, generic lines indicative
of mindless indoctrination via the latest trending 'reality tv' (aka
farce) hype; "just like other dogs"<br /> <br /> a little information and a little independent thinking married with even <i>basic</i> elementar<span class="text_exposed_show">y math should arouse some discord even in prepubescent intuition. From the link above;<br />
<i>"Thus in 2013 about one pit bull in 107 killed or seriously injured
another animal, compared with about one dog in 50,000 of other breeds."</i><br /> <br />
Deductive reasoning is far from an unattainable, secondary-education
necessitated skill-set. Even the uneducated can possess it, and
exercise it with regularity and efficiency. <br /> <br /> Deductive
reasoning tells us that if something is 'just like' something else, it
will possess the <i><b>same</b></i> qualities, attributes, form, and these will
exhibit or demonstrate similar qualities, attributes, inclinations, and
behaviors within a fairly tight continuum. <br /> <br /> To vary
dramatically is to make something NOT 'like the other', since 'like the
other' is a designation of <b>sameness</b>. Make no bones about it, the
variance here IS definitively, undeniably drastic. An animal is
HUNDREDS of times more likely to be seriously injured or shredded by a
pitbull <i>than any other breed of dog.</i><br /> <br /> (Another common pitbull
fanatic blow-off is a flippant howl of "DO YOUR HOMEWORK!!" ...with <i><b>no </b></i>additional
information or contribution to the subject at hand. It shows the
juvenile and immature mindset of the whiner who throws such a dismissal,
because they are counting on what is efficient in their own
mindsets--a puerile aversion to 'extra work' and 'homework' and the
nitty-gritty of investigation.... anything 'not fun' or
salacious. However, when this affront is unloaded on someone with the
intellectual capacity and maturity to investigate comprehensively rather
than recreational... an individual who <i>rises</i> to the challenge of 'do
your homework'.... this works against the pitbull extremists' cause,
because 'homework'... hard numbers and facts, do NOT align with their
dogma. <br /> <br /> Case in point...<br /> If you want to get into some simple high school math (basic pre-algebra here) to nail down the numbers, here ya go;<br /> For comparison, determine the percentages, via the simple percentage-ratio equation;<br />
any given percentage to be determined/over a hundred = ratio of
subject, for example, 1 pitbull in 107 will be 1/107, one dog in 50,000
other breeds will be 1/50,000, so we will have;<br /> <br /> 1/107=x/100 for the first equation and 1/50,000=x/100 for the second, respectively.<br /> Cross multiply each to get;<br /> 107x=100 and 50,000x=100<br />
Using the distributive property of multiplication (which, in this case,
is dividing either side by the remaining coefficient on the variable
side), we get;<br /> x=.9345... and x=.002<br /> <br /> To determine how many
more times likely an animal is to be killed by a pitbull than a dog of
another breed, we simply divide the pitbull number by the other breed
number... .934 (and that's rounding down for the pitbulls, folks!)
divided by .002 equals 467.<br /> <br /> An animal is not 10... not 20...
not 50... not 90... not 100... not 200x but... 467 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO
BE MAULED/KILLED BY A PITBULL THAN ANY OTHER BREED OF DOG )<br /> <br />
Pitbulls definitively do <i><b>not </b></i>conform to the shape, design, temperament,
ability, predictability, or behaviors of other dogs--not by a long shot.
This is why some even call them 'un-dogs' because that which was bred
in the canine species to be <b>domesticated</b>--to be our contemporary
understanding of 'dog' as companion--has been aggressively bred <i><b>out</b></i> of
pitbulls and fighting dogs <i>for several hundred years now</i>. The evidence
of this divergence is piling up daily, and it is in rivers of blood.
Much of this blood belongs to animals that people <i>deeply love</i>--just as
much, arguably if not <b>more-so</b> than any pitbull owner loves their pet.
Yet, their pain, torture, loss, their plight is grossly ignored,
undermined, swept under the rug, and even mocked by fanatical pitbull
advocacy.<br /> <br /> It is tragically clear that animal welfare is nothing
more than a thinly veiled construct (one easily shattered) of a
ruthless game-dog advocacy that will stop at nothing and use any and
every dirty trick in the book to deify their cause and villainize
others. </span></span><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-88455595535981647742014-02-24T21:38:00.001-07:002014-02-25T21:54:12.971-07:00Denying facts of nature is proving to be quite the deadly fallacy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There's a great pitbull meme circulating around FB, a striking comparison of how disturbingly backwards pitbull zealots are in their oft self-contradicting rhetoric--anything to venerate the Chosen Breed. Which got me to thinking... </div>
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<span class="userContent">Would you like to accuse people of being
racist for not allowing bears to be domestic companion animals? Do you
want to repeal any legislation or ordinances that prevent you from
keeping a pet bear and touting it all through the public, and<span class="text_exposed_show"> throwing up a furor when restaurants and other venues deny access because of your service bear?</span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">
Pitbull zealots like to talk about the plethora of things that kill more people than pitbulls do, justifying that we shouldn't regulate their status
as pets because we don't ban cars, cigs, HFCS, etc.. This insinuates
there is a fatality threshold at which something becomes unacceptable or
not, and that, until an issue/object/animal reaches this threshold, it
isn't a problem worth serious consideration.</span></span> (This especially hypocritical and folly for a society that regularly recalls products that injure or kill the consumer, many need not even need a single fatality to be rescinded.)<br />
<br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> This deeply flawed
mockery of 'logic' would dictate that animals should be evaluated on
their own individual merit, rather than by their species/breed and
risk--and should only be addressed as individuals, <b>like people</b>. This in itself is a <b>significant fallacy</b>. While it may feel like a noble and worthy concept, it is riddled with problems. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">If we elevate the status of every animal to person-hood, then it stands to reason that the consumption of meat and use of animal products must cease completely. This does not bode well for the populace's health; the human body cannot synthesize B12 from plants--it is only through animal protein that we can process it, and insulin-dependent diabetics will have to forfeit the only substance keeping them alive.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">When animals equate human citizens, we cannot keep pets--for they cannot <i>give consent</i>, and if a person is incapable of consenting to where/who/how they live, if they are not allowed to determine their own path and self-concept, we call that imprisonment and/or slavery.... which is wrong no matter how 'nice' the master may be. We also cannot administer medicine, medical treatment, and hygeine upon those who do not consent to it. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">When we demand to anthropomorphize animals according to person-hood, we are demanding that all human interference with them cease. No more meat, or ownership, spaying or neutering, and just where do we draw the line? Rodents and other pets should be allowed free reign, to pursue the right of happiness as people do, no? </span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">No matter how much we want to humanize animals, the fact remains that their biology--their DNA--is a powerful predictor not just of appearance but behavior... and in dogs, especially <span style="color: #0000ee;">more-so<span style="color: #0000ee;">,</span></span> since humans have been selectively breeding for specialized traits for thousands of years. We streamline breeds with a <b>purpose</b> in mind, and that purpose involves not appearance but function and <b>behavior.</b> That is simple, undeniable fact. It is why we attribute <b>specific skill-sets</b> <b>to specific breeds</b>; </span></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">the greyhound races</span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">the husky pulls sleds</span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">the Labrador retrieves</span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">the dachshund digs</span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">the beagle bays</span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">the pointer points</span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">the shepherd herds</span></span></li>
</ul>
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">...and we observe these traits occurring in companion animals<i> far removed</i> from their point of origin and intended purpose--they act out their genetic heritage <i><b>without</b></i> training or prompting, influenced primarily by a carefully cultivated instinct. This is <i>irrefutable </i>in wild animals too; </span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">tigers enjoy water, lions do not, cats 'knead bread' with their paws, woodpeckers peck trees, beavers chew wood, pachyderms run from predators, and so forth. All of these are <b>attributes of <i>behavior,</i></b><i> </i>not merely appearance. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">It takes an animal's conscious decision to act out chewing, swimming, running, pawing, etc.. Arguing that there is no innate compulsion for specific behaviors specific to certain species is beyond counter-intuitive. These animals <b>need <span style="font-size: small;"><i>not </i></span>be trained </b>or subjected to extraordinarily abusive/neglectful environments to do what they do. It comes naturally, and so, too, is it with the pitbull breed... bred to savage impulsively, without rhyme or reason, instantaneously, severely, fatally if they can help it, with no provocation needed. </span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /></span></span>
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">Pitbull fanatics cry 'blame the deed' even though that rhetoric still has people and
animals dying by the hundreds (or more; the animal toll is nearly
incalculable).</span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> The reason we have existing limits on what
constitutes an appropriate pet is through the interest of PREVENTING the
'deed', and if you look at the variances between the fatalities
inflicted by wild, 'unacceptable' pets versus the allowable, coddled
fighting breeds, it becomes quite clear that <i>prevention IS effective</i>.
Death by wild animals is but a drop in the bucket compared to the
'acceptable' fighting breeds' kill count.</span></span> Why is that...?<br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> Because it does not allow for the
opportunity to attack, and attacks dramatically diminish. Incorporate
it into households, obfuscate their true nature, obstruct educational
tools that don't sync with a particular propaganda, deny regulation of
any kind... and the <b>death toll </b>grows and grows... (not to mention the
extreme maulings that occur on a daily basis.) </span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> We're talking
people and animals losing limbs, being scalped, degloved*, grossly
disfigured, blinded, brain damaged (loss of blood and/or oxygenation),
grievously injured and disabled... </span></span><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"></span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">*medically speaking,
'degloved' is a term for the skin being forcibly ripped up and peeled
back from the underlying viscera/muscle. Think of a person as a banana,
and skin as the banana peel. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> If it were a product, it would be called defective.</span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> If it were a medical entity, it would be called malpractice.</span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> If it were a force of nature, it would be called a natural disaster.</span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> If it were pests destroying resources it would be called a plague.</span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> If it were a band of united peoples inflicting this kind of damage one would call it war. </span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> If it were a virus, it would be called an epidemic.</span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">
No matter what you call it, if it were any of those things, it would be
terminated/prevented/mitigated at every possible turn, by any means
possible, with collective support and enthusiasm. All those things
would be recognized for the blight they are. To manage/handle them is
<i>not </i>an act of '<b>hate</b>', but of <i>concern, care, responsibility, <b>even love</b></i>.
It would be the right thing to do.</span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> Unless you call that thing pitbull. Then heaven help you.</span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">
You will be harassed, bullied, smeared, threatened, deceived, and
assaulted in countless ways. Pitbull zealots will stop at nothing, they
will lie, they will spread lies as fact, they will get you (or die
trying) fired from your job, they will salt your earth. They will blame
you or your loved ones for being a victim, they will post pictures of
you and collectively mock and bully you (Faces of BSL Apologists is one
example), they will post your contact information and send you (and, if
they can get their grubby paws on extended info--your family and
employers) an <b>endless stream of hate-mail.</b> (the hate-mail on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffatherofdax.tumblr.com%2F&h=uAQHwplnI" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://fatherofdax.tumblr.com/</a> is just the tip of the iceberg in the ugliness pitbull fanatics employ)</span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">
They will rain hate down upon you and yours with merciless tenacity.
And you, you will be labelled the 'hater' for daring to have a voice, or
simply having the misfortune of being afflicted by <i>someone else's</i>
propaganda/bad choices.</span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> Interested in exploring the issue more in depth? Please visit</span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdogsbite.org%2F&h=GAQHcRK0r&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://dogsbite.org/</a>
great objective site, lots of citations and external resources,
objective, reports on ALL major dog attacks, not just pitbulls. It has a
must-read myth-busting section, comprehensive and informative articles,
a great blog, and many more great links.</span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"></span></span><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> <br /> There are a lot of
great blogs out there too. True, there is personal motivation to some,
but many cite experts and external sources/syndication to back up their
views/information/statistics. <br /> </span></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> Confessions of Pitbull Victims </span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> 17 Barks</span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> The TRUTH about Pitbulls </span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> SRUV</span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> Dangerous by Default</span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> Father of Dax </span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> Baby Beau Foundation </span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> Pitbull Fatal Attack Archive </span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">
Craven Desires (a personal favorite but it makes no bones about being a
site of personal expression and is not objective--BUT there is just so
much good information incorporated into the personal writings that it's a
great place to mine links for quotable data. There is a great side
button labelled 'experts' that is page after page of info and quotes
from REAL animal authorities (those with formal educations and
experience, employed and 'in the trenches' with these animals, real
scientists with verifiable research, etc.), not the self-proclaimed
animal experts like Karen Delise, whose deceptively formally titled
clique 'The Canine Research Council' is nothing more than a social club
of fanatics who pick and choose from Google searches and present their
cherry-picking to the public like it's confirmed fact/science)</span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> First Church of Pitbulls </span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> The Nanny Dog (myth)</span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> The Canine Game Changer</span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> Scorched Earth--the politics of pitbulls</span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> Munchers of Doom</span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> Animal Uncontrol</span></span></li>
<li><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">
and if you use YouTube, a user named zupf has a channel chock full of
pitbulls-in-action footage WARNING: many are NOT for the faint-of-heart</span></span></li>
</ul>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-26668915260494112752013-11-29T14:46:00.001-07:002013-11-29T14:46:31.656-07:00Puppycide?? the "po-po" dog shooters<div style="text-align: justify;">
Within the last few weeks, we've had a near daily rash of fatal
dog-shootings. There is the inevitable backlash, the outrage, the fury--that an armed, trained, intelligent human ... would be so "extreme". Would
respond with "excessive" force. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<i>"Surely there must be another way!" </i></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<i>"Shooting a dog, nonetheless family dogs?? How
sadistic/lazy/cruel/other-negative-character-traits-here!! I mean, who
can't handle a dog, right? Throw it a steak or get over a fence or talk
real nice and sweet to it or rope it with a harness, or just kick it
away, right?"</i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The problem is... these 'common-sense'
assumptions saddle a breed with <b>un</b>common aggressive habits
and attack style. Brutal attacks by pit bull type dog breeds are a
daily occurrence. Every 12-14 days (some years more, some years less, but
the trend over the last 30 years is a <b>steady incline</b>...) they kill
another American--this doesn't count the fatalities occurring in the UK,
NSW, Brazil, etc.. Every six days someone loses a BODY PART to these
dogs--even if they were loved and spoiled family pets, raised from
puppy-hood and bonded over years and years of uneventful cohabitation.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Trying
to warn anyone about these crucial and life-altering differences
typically gets a person assaulted and threatened, and called a 'hater',
'racist', 'ignorant', among other ugly ad hominem toss-outs. This
onslaught of harassment is so steady and prolific that it often is
effective in silencing a truth-sayer.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Ergo, the majority
of the community plods on, oblivious to the danger roaming around on
four legs. But law enforcement knows. Their experience far out-classes
that of the average joe-schmoe, even those who claim to be animal
rescuers and the like. These men and women of the law regularly face
"when-things-go-wrong" scenarios. The average pet owners' experience is
tempered by the fact that their own sphere of exposure is relatively
small, and experience with crisis situations may be non-existent...
until it's too late.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
I'm not claiming no police officer
has ever done wrong or exercised bad judgement... they're fallible and
human mortals like the rest of us. What they do have, though, is
training and experience with crisis situations in abundance. They must
follow protocol. That protocol is based on a precedent of history. That history shows
it is far too reckless to let a pit bull type dog roam at large--especially when it's aggressive. What these animals do to
people is not like the fearful, quick bite-and-release snap of an
ordinary domestic dog.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Additionally, law enforcement must act with
prevention in mind. Preservation of the peace. "Prevent "the deed." This breed is infamous
for sustaining attacks even after being beaten, gouged, stabbed, hit by a
car, tazed, maced, and even shot REPEATEDLY. It's important to keep in mind the damage that could be wrought upon
the officers or innocent bystanders. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
It's important to keep in mind the
unique horrors these animals can visit upon a body with no warning, and
in seconds. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
THIS is what the officer must keep in mind when making
that split-second decision on how to handle the animal;</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
(WARNING:
graphic and disturbing images below--these are included for educational
purposes only. These are a pictorial representation of the 'side
effects' of a pitbull attack, much like how manufacturers of
medicines and products are obligated to be responsible and must include
warning labels listing all known dangers--no matter how remote the
chances are.)</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/s720x720/1471227_10201362850646280_822042104_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="photo_img img" src="https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/s720x720/1471227_10201362850646280_822042104_n.jpg" title="" /></a> <img alt="" class="photo_img img" src="https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/s720x720/1459816_10201362853686356_1262883497_n.jpg" title="" /><img alt="" class="photo_img img" src="https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s720x720/1450167_10201362855646405_2146232489_n.jpg" title="" /></div>
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</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
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<img alt="" class="photo_img img" src="https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/s720x720/1393806_10201362857486451_900108971_n.jpg" title="" /></div>
Do you still think law enforcement should play coombaya with these
animals first, when they approach the officer during/right after an attack? <br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867109791913217564.post-16874643751647362042013-11-29T12:51:00.000-07:002013-11-29T12:51:45.662-07:00Ideological comforts first! No memorial for attack victims allowed??<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In reviewing some links on my own personal page, I was both startled and nauseated to find that a tribute video to pit bull attack victims had been stripped from YouTube. It was <i><b>not </b></i>graphic, it was <i><b>not </b></i>offensive, it was <i>barely </i>even political. The focus was on remembering the deceased and putting a little humanity--faces, names, stories--to the otherwise abstract, cold statistics currently representing those people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=924-e6o6zQc#t=720<br />
<br />
It makes me sad that I have to wonder of the newest tribute video:<br />
<i>how long will this one last until it is flagged, censored, and stripped from view? How many times will it have to be re-uploaded in response to fanatics flag-bombing it into obscurity?</i><br />
<br />
Precedent shows it is not just videos that are subject to unfounded flagging and removal. The Wikipedia entry for the breed is penned by fanatics, offers <b>no</b> quarter from anyone else, and any time someone attempts to inject anything but, their material is immediately removed. One user edit offering statistics and fatalities lasted no longer than a half day; another was live for <i>only</i> <b>three hours</b>. Venture into any pit bull fanatic forum discussing 'management' of BSL supporters, and you will find page after page of encouragement to flag and harass authors/a post/sponsors until the 'offending' material is removed.<i> </i></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
The only thing separating this tribute to the dead from so many others (such as tributes to 9/11 or cancer victims) is the manner of death in which they were taken. Why does their killer merit more concern and defense and outrage than the victim?? Why is it wrong to honor and remember them??</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAEjWOQTNPQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAEjWOQTNPQ</a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Even<i> victim memorials</i> are targeted. The owners of the two pit bulls--Ricky and Christi George--that killed 10 year old Justin Clinton vindictively demanded destruction of a small memorial assembled by his classmates, friends, and family. In an attempt to avoid legal consequences via touting their "good character", they formally testified that they were sympathetic to the family. This was before they forced removal of the little flower-pot and cross memorial.</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2009/11/pit-bull-owners-force-removal-of-justin.html">http://blog.dogsbite.org/2009/11/pit-bull-owners-force-removal-of-justin.html</a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="Justin Clinton memorial, pit bull attack" border="0" height="171" src="http://www.dogsbite.org/blog/uploaded_images/justin-clinton-memorial-move-1.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 0px;" width="495" /> </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(image from dogsbite.org)</i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>After the attack, classmates of Justin created a make-shift memorial at
the spot where he took his last breath. The location is next to CR 133
and falls at the very back of the George's property, a distance from
their house and fenced yard. Recently, the George's demanded that the
memorial be removed from their leased property.</i><br />
<i> ...</i></blockquote>
</div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<blockquote>
<i> Mrs. Clinton states:<br /><img height="5" src="http://www.dogsbite.org/img/space.gif" width="20" />"Our
family has been touched by the love and prayer of our community when
they established this small make-shift memorial for Justin. Everyday my
daughter would go by the memorial on her way to school. As a cheerleader
for the school, she would each day say a prayer and give Justin a cheer
at the site of his gruesome death. <b>This helped her cope with her grief</b>."</i></blockquote>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Here is the most recent tribute. </b> It's so compelling, and beautiful (in a tragic way) that fanatics will, no doubt, be foaming and rallying to strip it from view ASAP.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://youtu.be/YhvYMRKjNlw">http://youtu.be/YhvYMRKjNlw</a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left;">It's so sad that putting a face to an issue involves, predominantly, so many young children. Here is the product of the nanny dog myth. Here is the reason why perpetuating the myth, and regurgitating garbage like "[they'll only] lick you to</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; text-align: left;"> death" is not only <b>extremely offensive </b>and <b>wrong,</b> but in the face of such recurrent tragedy--it's <b>OBSCENE</b>. This is why I will never suffer utterance of such garbage ever again. ...and this--this is <i>only representative of <b>less than one complete year</b>. </i></span></span></div>
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People have been so blinded to the frequency and severity of these atrocities (occurring daily--an attack on a person, pet, or livestock) and seek only to perpetuate the same tired, false propaganda pumped through: </div>
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<br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); display: inline; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
-false experts, </div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
-scripted "reality" shows, </div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
-advocates with a <i>vested financial interest</i> in keeping the problem lidded from public purview<i> (including dog-fighters, whose industry is $50 billion strong, and fight purses can be <b>$10,000 </b>high), </i></div>
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It's disgusting to me that people respond with such furious outrage over just TALKING about the problem (how dare I!?) and are so <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">recalcitrant on the DEATHs of innocent people occurring every 12-14 days. To those that would be dead silent about/ignore the dead, but rally and froth for merely mentioning the pit problem/sharing information--shame on you!</span></div>
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Such people won't even take a moment to view such a beautiful, but tragic tribute comprised mostly of images and music (<i>a few seconds or less</i> of text sharing data, is not a politic-laden piece--the rest is in honoring the deceased)... People are more likely than not to gloss over posts/the issue entirely, and yet will turn around and sanctimoniously declare others are "ignorant" and should "open [their] mind[s]". This, from those who refuse to investigate anything further than their noses.</div>
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I've seen a lot of ugly and terrifying things investigating the pit bull issue. Things no one should have to see, nonetheless experience. This video is an exceptionally disturbing example of how fierce, swift, and merciless the breed can be. They rip off their victim's leg in 60 seconds, or less! After the other dog desperately submitted to its attackers. </div>
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In all other breeds, submission is (usually) sufficient enough to end an attack. It makes good sense, instinct-wise. Conflict always carries with it the threat of personal harm, and other than sparring for reproductive rights or seeking nourishment, animals typically avoid violence as much as possible. Losing an eye/paw/nose/other useful body part, infected wounds, blood-scent attracting apex predators, etc.... all could spell death for an animal. </div>
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Pit bulls and pit bull type dogs lack this instinct, and instead are genetically driven to continue mauling even after being beaten, stabbed, tased, and shot repeatedly. Why anyone invites--nonetheless advocates!--such brutal destructive power into their lives and the lives of all those around them (especially tragic is the children, who are a favored target of this breed's explosive and idiopathic aggression) is mind boggling. </div>
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These people themselves claim that "animals will be animals" and "any dog can turn" and so on and so forth... with the regurgitated nonsense that paints all animal behavior with the same broad brush.What that does is boil things down to thus--an animal in the home environment represents a potential (if not inevitable) attack. Anticipating and espousing that "things could go wrong" requires careful consideration of what could go wrong...</div>
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considering the raw, unique, crippling, and often fatal threat a pit bull represents if it attacks, should surely mean a person would try to ameliorate that risk by selecting an animal that is not capable of inflicting such destruction. Why risk it, no? Instead, they rail proclamations about how their breed is the best (yet they cry discrimination and "breedism" when it suits them), safe, so on and so forth. Contradictions ahoy!</div>
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<strong>WARNING</strong>--especially to readers with negative personal experiences/PTSD following the pit bull attack of self or loved one, sensitive stomachs, or in possession of fragile sensibilities: this video is extremely graphic and horrifying. The images will stick with you long after you close your browser and go about your day. I certainly do not wish to inflict more distress on people already so badly victimized. If viewing this is not a good idea; here is a quick textual summation:</div>
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Two pit bulls have got a-hold of another dog's side, reaching through a shared fence to maul her. (She appears to be a yellow-lab mutt of some kind.) She is down in the dirt, crying, head rolling back, and is trying to roll over to expose her belly in a submissive position. She cannot roll over, however, because both pits are firmly latched onto her, anchoring her side up against the fence. A stream of water hits the pits in the face, from a water-hose is out of frame.Predictably, it has no effect on arresting the attack.</div>
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The pit bull on (our) right rears it's head back (unseen is that it just tore out a large chunk of its victim, which exposes her ribs (seen toward the end of the video). It machine guns a few more snaps, before latching onto her left foreleg, shattering the bone within, so severely that it can easily tug it through the fence. It jerks its head back twice, showered with blood like the spray of shot-gun pellets, severing the leg.The other pit withdraws and tries to take it away from him. They take turns trying to consume it. .</div>
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A desperate man runs up to the fence and the pits are there to greet him in a flash. He hits their noses with something (rolled up newspaper? shoe? gardening tool? I can't tell) as a man off screen hoses the pits again. The pitbulls launch at the fence, jump like crazy, and repeatedly slam their heads on it, directed at the man on the other side of the fence.The destroyed dog collapses on the ground. </div>
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The pit bulls were obviously well-fed, and possessed both tail and intact ears--indicating these are not dog-fighting specimens. Dog fighters like to crop pits' ears and tails so that the animal will not get ensnared on these parts , which would give the opposing dog an edge.</div>
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<strong>Nutter comments accompanying this spectacle of horror-- just as disgusting today as they were a year ago.</strong></div>
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<em><strong>note:</strong> henceforth, my personal thoughts on various comments are formatted with italics and deeper indentation ~Jenny</em></div>
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<span class="fbUnderline">Fukyou</span>• a year ago</div>
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The person that put this video on here should be shot, you fucking faggot nigger....</div>
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This is the most inhumane disgusting sad display of the humans that forced these dogs into it. Im with you these awful men should be killed in the same way, Your clearly a killer yourself just using dogs instead. How upsetting for these poor animals and the evil men who made this video,</div>
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<span class="fbUnderline">Young Canadian Blonde</span>• a year ago</div>
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I just watched a video on Baby Briana, a 5 month old poor innocent child unable to speak for herself as she was thrown, bite, hit, molested and raped, throughout her whole life of 5 short months. You people are truly just as evil as the parents and uncle that did those awful things to that poor baby.</div>
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<em>The video was not orchestrated, only witnessed, and the purpose of posting is to spread awareness of what danger pit bulls represent. Additionally, getting photo/video evidence of an attack is often the only recourse left to victims/their families, because pit owners avoid responsibility and culpability at all costs, current laws enable that deviance, and any restitution for damages has to be procured through civil courts. They have to produce evidence to satisfy burden-of-proof.</em></div>
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That poor innocent dog cannot help or speak for itself. I hope u ignorant, mean fucks rot in hell where you clearly belong.I even added my email so you could direct your hate towards someone who can at least defend themselves in a way,</div>
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<span class="fbUnderline">Fuckingblowme</span>• a year ago</div>
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Its a fucking dog, get over it.. This shit happens all the time its fucking dog eat dog world we live in... this isnt some pussy world we live in, which the American news and media makes u believe. wake the fuck up people we are taking over countries..</div>
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<span class="fbUnderline">jonh cathy</span>• a year ago</div>
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why people still believing in that "pitbulls bad dogs and dangerous"?? PITBULLS ARE NOT BAD DOGS. every dogs can be dangerous. chiuhahas are more agressive than a pitbull! but a chiuaha doesn't hurt you -.-'' why do you put the blames on pitbulls? the owner is stupid and made them agressive because pitbulls get more easily dangerous. but if you teach them well and with love, not with agressivity they wont do that -.-''</div>
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<span class="fbUnderline">Whatever jonh</span><em> (a brief voice of reason)</em>• a year ago </div>
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so ure telling me a chihuahua can come and rip off pitbulls leg off right? or this laying dog, can come and bite ur palm off? ever heard of pitbulls jaws locking? their strength etc? or u dont feel a difference between a guy armed with a baseball bat and a shotgun? </div>
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<span class="fbUnderline">bananas</span><em> (fitting moniker)</em>-->Whatever• a year ago</div>
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man you are such a stupid. did you learn what i said? chihuahuas are more agressive than a pitbull! i will explain you one thing. on humans, if a man bigger than you and stronger try to beat you, and if you see dont have chances against him you run away or give up. on dog's world, a smaller dog growl and try to show the stronger dog that he is tough and to don't substimate him by his weight. and that's why chihuahuas are agressiva. they are the smallest dog in the world. now i will just copy paste a comment that i did before because i won't occupate my time anymore with ignorant people like you:</div>
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ABOUT THE SHIT YOU SAID ABOUT RIP OFF PITBULLS LEG :</div>
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"if you dont know anything about dogs/pitbulls and don't understand the instict of a dog just shut up. How is making the very obvious deduction that chihuahua's do not posess the same bite power and strength of a pit bull the equivalent of "knowing nothing about dogs"?pitbulls are the only dog that don't have breed. they were made in laboratory. and every dogs in the wild would kill animals. they are not humans. you dont kill humans to eat but you kill cows! you look to dogs as pets but before pets they were wild animals. if he has in front of him a fresh leg with fresh meat do you think he will refuse that? just shut up man. give a fresh leg with fresh meat of a bunny to a chiuhauha and you will see if he accept that or refuse it -.-'' do research before talk shit</div>
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"AND THIS IS TO SHUT UP YOUR MOUTH ABOUT WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT PITBULLS:why you think it's pitbulls fault? blame the owner please. it is the owner that take care of him and make him agressive. they can be very good dogs and friendly, but of course they get more easily dangerous. know what? chiuhahuas are more agressive than pitbulls but everyone think they are cute because they are small and can't hurt no one... pls dont judge the dogs. if you dont know anything about this dogs dont say that things about them. kill the owner not the dogs.</div>
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what you heard about this dogs in the news it's because that stupid niggas and thiefs, criminals whatever, buy pitbulls because they can easily make them agressive and because they are strong, but if you take care of them with love they are the best friend you could have. and another thing, that dogs can be very friendly outside of their house with another dogs, but that's their territory<em> (the victim was dismembered in his own yard)</em> and that's animal instict. they are defending what belongs to them. the owner of the small dog shouldn't had let him go near the fence.</div>
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<em>How dare that owner and pet utilize their own property to its fullest!How is a neighbor supposed to know when someone acquires pit bulls or when they specifically let them out? it is the owner's responsibility to properly contain their animals to prevent them from harming others (and themselves). This obviously was not the case. It's ridiculous to demand an external party pay for the (reckless) personal decisions of others. No one should have to significantly modify their home environment, at great expense, to accommodate the unnecessary dangers foisted on them by others. You don't get to demand that an uninvolved stranger should pay child support for your decision to reproduce. Same concept.</em></div>
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if a thief enters in your house for sure you will attack him, or not if you see he is more powerfull,stronger. and that's what happened here. the brown dog is less powerfull so they can retaliate. sorry about bad english and big text</div>
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<span class="fbUnderline">LIVE WIRE Edinkolenovic</span>• a year ago</div>
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DONT BLAME THOSE TWO PITBULLS. BLAME THE OWNER OF THE ARMLESS DOG. I FEEL BAD FOR THE DOG. BUT HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON A LEASH. THE PITBULLS WERE ONLY PROTECTING WHAT THAY KNOW AS HOME.</div>
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<em>You need to leash your pet in your own, fenced backyard?? (btw, dog advocates in general go against the cruelty known as "tethering"--and that's what leashing an animal in your own yard equates to) This makes about as much sense as strapping your infant into her car seat in her playroom, or putting a straight-jacket on your toddler to bathe him. And again, apparently fanatic eyesight is as poor as their reading comprehension, because it's very clear in this video that the victim was mutilated in his own yard. </em></div>
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<span class="fbUnderline">LeeLee</span>• a year ago</div>
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I don't see where they ever eat the dog's leg so this who title is a lie. <em>(the pits ripped the leg in half and snapped the pieces up right around the time the man approaches the fence</em>) I have a question for the owner of the dog that got killed. WHY IN HELL are you letting your dog run up to strange dogs in the first place?</div>
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<em>Possibly because it's only logical to allow your pet to roam its own environment, and walking along the border of that environment should not be a death sentence. Also possibly because pit nutters have been extremely successful at snowing society-at-large that pit bulls are safe and "just like any other dog". This false propaganda is devastating in it's lure to blind people from the truth; the inherent danger this breed presents. </em></div>
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<em>Additionally, a person or pet should not have to be held hostage in their own homes because of an ever-present threat beyond its borders. </em></div>
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I own Pit Bulls, 3 of them. They are dog aggressive to dogs outside of their 6 dog pack. However when they are with me on leash or off leash I can give them a "leave it" command and they won't do anything. But there has been a time where a neighbors dog (American Bully) decided it was okay to hop my fence and come after me so my dogs tore it up (even my Boston terrier helped. I don't see how that would be my fault if the neighbor did not control his dog and it came on to MY property and got attacked. The way it was acting I would have shot it anyway. That little brown dog shoved its nose into the dogs' territory and got attacked. It is NO ONE'S fault other than the owner of the brown dog. </div>
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<span class="fbUnderline">Getfucked</span>• a year ago</div>
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It's the FUCKING PEOPLE THAT MAKE THEM THAT WAY!Did you SEE that fucker? I have a pitbull with dogs much smaller then him and he is protective of THEM.. ITs the PEOPLE that do this.Any dog can be a killer. You naive jackass's all of you. </div>
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<span class="fbUnderline">john Amayaveronica38</span>• a year ago</div>
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that could have been a little kid if the kid went to the fence! and that is his terretory, they are protecting him. if a thief enter in your house you will watch him stoling your values or beat him? before you talk about this dogs you must know them. i bet you never had a dog or if you had one it was a pinscher or a poodle -.-''</div>
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<em>What gives you the authority to dictate to people what they should do on their own property? What gives you the right to take away someone else's hard-earned real estate via mortal peril at its borders? </em></div>
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<span class="fbUnderline">don'tlie</span>• a year ago</div>
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you fucking retards deserve to die, oh i'll wet them, fucking hit them you dicks.how would you like it if i just went to your home and started hacking the shit out of your family? you wouldn't right? you'll try to stop me...why let the dog suffer? atleast look and help it, in some way.you guys make me sick.also why video it you sick bastards + why have a fence that close to pitbulls if you know they are vicious, you wouldn't? would you.</div>
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<em>so a person should... what....? move their fence line according to a neighbors choice in pet? Forfeit a big chunk of their own personal property to construct an internal fence line when the burden of adequate containment is upon the pit bull owner's shoulders? To fund construction that is only necessary because of the nutter's whimsy? </em></div>
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<span class="fbUnderline">bananas</span> don'tlie• a year ago</div>
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you made me laugh xD you said "would you like it if i just went to your home and started hacking the shit out of your family"... Well... on this video the "home" you are talking about it's pitbull's home!! and the brown dog went to their "home"... soooo.... they took care of his ass .|. it's not pitbull's fault. you should blame the owner of the brown dog that shouldn't let him went near the fence. THINK BEFORE SAY SHIT ;D*</div>
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<em>*never applicable to the author, obviously </em></div>
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<span class="fbUnderline">Todd Pompe</span>• a year ago</div>
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So where is the dead dogs owner? And why wasn't his dog controlled from getting close to the Pits, who are contained on their own property behind a fence? Keep your dogs away from other peoples property douchebag. Tough lesson for ya, idiot.</div>
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<em>Why was the onus on the owner of the decent dog? Why didn't the owner of the pit bulls keep their animals away from the fence? Away from another person's property? This is a shared property line; both sides were sharing a fence.</em> </div>
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<span class="fbUnderline">Vanylladelightdelight</span>• 10 months ago</div>
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first off shoot those dogs shoot the assholes who allowed those dogs to do that. but most important first shot would have been to put that poor torn up dog out of his misery. when i look at people like this i wonder to myself "really thats the sperm that made it through" these people are the load that their mothers should have swallowed.</div>
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<em>keepin' it classy I see... as always</em></div>
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