tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31317679589659039912024-03-05T07:43:38.438-08:00Topsy-Turvy & BloodshedAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131767958965903991.post-10280628956328558882015-05-16T22:04:00.001-07:002015-05-16T22:04:25.505-07:00From Around the Web<div style="text-align: justify;">
From <a href="http://animals24-7.org/">Animals 24-7</a>:</div>
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<a href="http://www.animals24-7.org/2015/05/16/dog-bite-prevention-weak-2015/">Dog Bite Prevention Weak </a></div>
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explores the glaring omissions and failures of 'Dog Bite Prevention Week'</div>
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<a href="http://www.animals24-7.org/2015/05/06/pit-bull-wisdom-dog-pound-foolishness/">Pit Bull Wisdom & Dog Pound Foolishness</a></div>
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Professional dog trainer Liz Marzen, with 30 years experience working in humane societies and animal rescues, even working with the Micheal Vick dogs, explains why pitbulls need <i>more </i>restrictions, not fewer.</div>
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<a href="http://www.animals24-7.org/2015/05/06/links-to-32-reasons-why-breed-specific-legislation-needs-to-be-enforced-and-reinforced/">Links to 32 reasons why breed-specific legislation needs to be enforced and reinforced</a></div>
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This in and of itself is a great form of 'from around the web'</div>
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<a href="http://www.animals24-7.org/2015/05/16/15-real-life-tips-for-surviving-a-dog-attack/">15 tips for surviving a dog attack</a></div>
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What will work, and what won't? With bully breeds, is there any defense? You'd be surprised at what is most effective... against these nearly unstoppable canine gladiators.</div>
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From the <a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/">dogsbite.org Blog</a>:</div>
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<a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2015/04/2015-dog-bite-fatality-family-pit-bull.html">2015 Dog Bite Fatality: Family Pit Bull Kills Baby Boy in Dallas, Texas</a></div>
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This one really hits home. The pitbull issue had become a bone of contention betwixt myself and a family member. Fortunately, the pitbull in her home was gone by the time baby came. Baby Brayden and my new little niece are nearly exactly the same age. This could've been the same story with different characters... Sadly, many aspects of this story echo the tragic decapitation of two-year-old <a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2013/04/2013-dog-bite-fatality-fulton-county.html">Beau Rutledge</a>...</div>
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<a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2015/04/2015-dog-bite-fatality-pahrump-man-dies.html">The Violent Death of Kenneth Ford</a></div>
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An innocent 79 year old man does his landlord a favor and goes to feed his cats... when a tenant's pitbulls scale a 6 foot fence and do the unthinkable. Witness recall is bone chilling: <i>"Cause the dogs absolutely chewed his left hand plum off. He lost six pints of his blood. And his face was tore off. His eye was hanging out. I mean I have never seen nothing like that."</i></div>
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<a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2015/04/book-review-misunderstood-nanny-dogs.html">Book Review: Misunderstood Nanny Dogs? A Critical and Objective Analysis of the Facts & Myths Concerning Pit Bulls</a></div>
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Exactly what it says. This one has nutters in an uproar, petitioning to have author and lawyer Thomas J. Beasley disbarred for his brilliantly factual and mild tome.</div>
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from <a href="http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/">Craven Desires</a></div>
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<a href="http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2015/05/pit-nutter-true-confessions-my-service.html">Pit Nutter True Confessions: My "Service Dog," Boulder, Tried to Kill My Neighbor's Kid</a></div>
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The title says it all.</div>
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from <a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/">Daxton's Friends</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/2015/05/message-to-tia-torres-kara-hartrich-killed-by-family-pit-bull/">An Open Letter to Tia Torres</a></div>
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Former fan and now grief stricken mother implores Pitbull and Parolees maven Tia Torres to enact a modicum of responsibility with her grossly irresponsible slop of a reality show.</div>
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<a href="http://www.daxtonsfriends.com/2015/05/jennifer-kim-manchester-tia-torres-shameless-promotion-pit-bulls-victims/">And another open letter</a></div>
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from <a href="http://17barks.blogspot.com/">17 Barks</a></div>
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<a href="http://17barks.blogspot.com/2015/04/dog-attack-report-1q-2015.html">Dog Attack Report 1Q 2015</a></div>
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2015 statistics thus far</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131767958965903991.post-5285240979895919542015-05-16T09:07:00.001-07:002015-05-16T09:07:16.056-07:00By 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</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131767958965903991.post-54323813402398315912015-01-10T16:28:00.003-08:002015-01-11T15:43:28.601-08:00Pit bulls are a COMMUNITY problem<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>crossposted to the <a href="http://thecaninegamechanger.blogspot.com/">canine game changer</a></i></span></div>
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<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 href="http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/parents-child-allegedly-injured-pit-bull-attack-birthday-party-sue/">http://www.dangerousdognews.com/us_attacks/parents-child-allegedly-injured-pit-bull-attack-birthday-party-sue/</a></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> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Ii5HnHjGI99N05r59gwvIM3OP1nCSfB58_i3_3eGWBm5Rr9r5mAc7YmnchgO5MtoPze0RICuApxRnVlVDA2VzpzIdFzIsbvN9G4wCiNfgbGQwRxWdNp2_fgvKiFltBWvuJsxe3_Inc0/s640/blogger-image-152583719.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Ii5HnHjGI99N05r59gwvIM3OP1nCSfB58_i3_3eGWBm5Rr9r5mAc7YmnchgO5MtoPze0RICuApxRnVlVDA2VzpzIdFzIsbvN9G4wCiNfgbGQwRxWdNp2_fgvKiFltBWvuJsxe3_Inc0/s640/blogger-image-152583719.jpg"></a></div>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> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-SXKDAyY46LDHXj8k9UfMnvtbczf53Mv9ZDcGp-xFKLSpQ1lxW3KnGGtf_pRZOOoBeILQChQWrSAsl9vw_otgp4kr9uh8seG1b8BBu23xVJ36RWHD8D0lD7CqizOlg4zNJm7NnqCVOA/s640/blogger-image--111535971.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-SXKDAyY46LDHXj8k9UfMnvtbczf53Mv9ZDcGp-xFKLSpQ1lxW3KnGGtf_pRZOOoBeILQChQWrSAsl9vw_otgp4kr9uh8seG1b8BBu23xVJ36RWHD8D0lD7CqizOlg4zNJm7NnqCVOA/s640/blogger-image--111535971.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-SXKDAyY46LDHXj8k9UfMnvtbczf53Mv9ZDcGp-xFKLSpQ1lxW3KnGGtf_pRZOOoBeILQChQWrSAsl9vw_otgp4kr9uh8seG1b8BBu23xVJ36RWHD8D0lD7CqizOlg4zNJm7NnqCVOA/s640/blogger-image--111535971.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSVZvPre1uvKObH6aDOIEjW7BKpEd6Ps999B6VdCfJBq2eCWKJzPg9kKWSfR1nQDnZuZZH-WnGW_AuEFaqdzx3ihWmpf0mmYUG2lo-_AJlxYZ80qd2EJWzWTs94tFoPNoifyVsY0FQJe8/s640/blogger-image--1829382754.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSVZvPre1uvKObH6aDOIEjW7BKpEd6Ps999B6VdCfJBq2eCWKJzPg9kKWSfR1nQDnZuZZH-WnGW_AuEFaqdzx3ihWmpf0mmYUG2lo-_AJlxYZ80qd2EJWzWTs94tFoPNoifyVsY0FQJe8/s640/blogger-image--1829382754.jpg"></a></div></div></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;"><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, Bernard’s mother, told KOCO News that her son was drenched in blood and “looked like a Zombie with his face peeled back” after the attack.</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;">5-year-old boy and a 7-year-old boy were hospitalized Tuesday after they were attacked by two pit bulls in West Palm Beach, an Animal Care and Control spokesperson said.</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;">An officer was attacked by a pit bull as San Diego Police pulled over a driver in the Mission Valley area Wednesday night, officials say.</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;">The St. Albans Police Department is investigating a dog attack on Lake Street in the area of Food City. The attack happened between 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. 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/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;">Two people were hospitalized Monday night after they were attacked by four pit bulls that were accidentally released from their pen, police said.</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;">The dogs’ owner, identified as Sherry King, 43, of 550 Kilburn St., will be summonsed to court on two counts of failure to license a dog, Furtado said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Around 4 p.m. Monday, Fall River police Officers Peter Daluz and Derek Pereira responded to a dog bite call at Howe and Crawford streets. A 70-year-old woman was bitten on her forearm. She told the officers that she was walking in the area when two dogs approached and bit her pocketbook. When she tried to retrieve her purse, the dogs attacked her. The force of the dogs attacking her forearm caused the woman to fall to the ground, 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/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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131767958965903991.post-69548556917856989372015-01-03T19:45:00.001-08:002015-01-03T19:45:25.203-08:00From Around the Web #1<div class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">
new feature beginning in the inauguration of the new year 2015; 'From Around the Web'. I will feature a round-up of SABSL pertinent posts, articles, and news with relevant commentary and highlights.</div>
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<a href="http://www.animals24-7.org/2015/01/03/773-rise-in-fatal-disfiguring-pit-bull-attacks-from-2007-to-2014/">773% rise in fatal & disfiguring attacks from 2007-2014</a>--Animals 24/7, Merritt Clifton</div>
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<i>"...2014 brought new records for numbers of pit bulls involved in fatal or disfiguring on humans, numbers of human victims, numbers of children killed or disfigured, numbers of adults killed or disfigured, total number of fatalities, and total number of disfigurements.</i> </blockquote>
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<i></i><i>"The number of pit bulls involved in fatal and disfiguring attacks has risen since 2007 from 78 to 603; the number of child victims has increased from 30 to 264; the number of adult victims has increased from 23 to 279; the number of deaths directly inflicted by pit bulls is up from 13 to 31, one short of the high of 32 reached in 2012; and the number of disfigurements has soared from 37 to 451.</i></blockquote>
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<i></i><i>"Another 120 people were injured by pit bulls in 2014 but not killed or disfigured in attacks in which someone else was killed or disfigured.</i> </blockquote>
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<i></i><i>"...2014 was also the Year of the Shelter/Rescue Dog Attacks. At least 37 dogs in custody of shelters or rescues, or rehomed by shelters or rescues, killed or disfigured someone in 2014. Thirty of those dogs were pit bulls."</i></blockquote>
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The math according to the statistics provided at the bottom of the article shows that 80% of the pit bulls responsible for 2014's fatalities were family dogs found to have NO history of abuse or neglect. Of the remainder were strays and 'rescues' that had an unknown history. None of these dogs were fight bust dogs, making the 'it's all in how you raise 'em' claim transcend the absurd into the obscene.</div>
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<a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2015/01/02/barbara-kay-what-pit-bull-activism-says-about-our-culture/">What pit bull activism says about our culture</a>--National Post, Barbara Kay</div>
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<i>"...Criminals favour them, certainly; but most now belong to naive mainstream people who believe pit bulls’ association with thuggery has given them an undeserved “bad rap.” </i></div>
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<i>"In reality, pit bull type dogs stubbornly remain what they have always been: fighting machines bred for impulsivity, pertinacity in attack and — thanks to their peculiar “rending” style of bite — a capacity for inflicting extraordinary damage on victims, usually other animals (pit bulls are responsible for almost 100% of domestic-animal fatalities, including cows and horses), but frequently enough, people, disproportionately children. </i></div>
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<i>"Just as imperial Britain’s obsession with caste translated into a fetish with breeding lines, the counter-culture in America, dominated by tropes of moral and cultural relativism, liberation, anti-racism and civil rights, anthropomorphized dogs into victims for whom merely humane treatment was not good enough. </i></div>
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<i>"Now, applying rubrics designed for humans, no dog breed may be considered better than any other, and even fighting dogs — though in fact line bred for stereotypical high prey drive — must be accorded the same individual rights as the law guarantees us “mongrels” (since humans mate randomly, it’s what we are in canine terms). Out of this misguided cross-species projection, and because pit bulls are the dog of choice for young black men of the underclass, the pit bull achieved totemic victim status — perceived as negatively stigmatized by the media as their racialized owners often are by law enforcement.</i></div>
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<i>"This is the first time in the history of human-animal relations that a movement has formed, not to promote the well-known virtues of a beloved breed, but to promote denial of a beloved breed’s well-known vices. </i></blockquote>
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<i>"High I.Q., as history constantly reminds us, is no guarantor of common sense or civic-mindedness. The pit bull advocacy movement is vigorously championed by a number of “progressive” intellectuals, academics and journalists. </i></blockquote>
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<i>"...Journalist Tom Junod romanticizes pit bulls in Esquire Online, also adducing the disingenuous race card: “The opposition to pit bulls might not be racist. It does, however, employ racist thinking.” (This is pure anthropomorphism; such logic would make it “racist thinking” to prefer huskies over collies as sled dogs.)</i></blockquote>
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<i>"Real critical thinking uncovers the truth transcending the nonsense the advocacy mill grinds out, however obscured by charming illustrations and rhyming verses: Dogs with a talent for fighting generally like to fight. When what they deem the right occasion presents itself, they will, with the same joy as greyhounds run and bloodhounds track, display the inherited motor pattern that gives them pleasure in performance."</i></blockquote>
<a href="http://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2015/01/pit-bull-experts-scientifically.html">Pit bull experts: scientifically unimpressive and technologically worthless</a>--Craven Desires<br />
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<i>" In 1960, Louis Leaky sent a secretary with no college education into the Africa bush to study chimpanzees. Despite the objections of "experts" Leaky persevered. Leaky felt that someone with little formal training would be </i><b>more</b> likely to describe what they <i>were </i>seeing rather than what they <i>thought</i> they should be seeing<i>. </i> </blockquote>
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<i>"I think everyone will agree that hiring Jane Goodall for the job was a brilliant move.</i></blockquote>
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<i>"DR JAMES HA, animal behaviorist at the University of Washington in Seattle and "expert" for hire.</i> </blockquote>
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"The reason we're focusing just on pit bulls is that we hear so much about them, and that is not because of the breed difference, the genetic difference - that's because of the way they've been raised." </blockquote>
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<i>That quote is from a 2010 KOMO news interview. Compare that to HA'S blog post in 2008, where HA cited research that stated red and golden cocker spaniels were more likely to display aggressive behavior than black cocker spaniels and that yellow labs were "significantly more likely to be reported with aggression problems" than the black or chocolate variants, yet dogs artificially selected for violence only require a loving gentle family. </i> </blockquote>
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<i>Also in the 2010 KOMO interview, DR HA stated that mastiffs, chows, shepherds, rottweillers and dobermans are "all more genetically aggressive than" dogs that had been artificially selected for combat for 200 years. HA goes on to add that genetics is roughly 20-30% responsible for temperament. YET, at the roughly 4:00 minute mark of his presentation on "Behavioral Genetics" DR HA stated that in studies of selected dog breeds, none were gripping breeds btw, for defence behaviors ie, guarding, attacking, biting there is a 14 - 20% heritability rate "which in genetics world is important". He immediately followed up with "there are different genetic predispositions in different breeds." Towards the end of this 2011 youtube video, HA states that 30-50% of behavior is genetics.</i> </blockquote>
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<i>"One unspoken assumption among early behavior geneticists, an assumption that was shared by most for many years, was that some psychological traits were likely to be significantly influenced by genetic factors, whereas others were likely to be primarily influenced by shared environmental influences. Most behavior geneticists assumed that social attitudes, for example, were influenced entirely by shared environmental influences, and so social attitudes remained largely unstudied until relatively recently. The evidence now shows how wrong these assumptions were. Nearly every reliably measured psychological phenotype (normal and abnormal) is <b>significantly</b> influenced by genetic factors. Heritabilities also differ far less from trait to trait than anyone initially imagined. </i> </blockquote>
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<i>"Shared environmental influences are often, but not always, of less importance than genetic factors, and often decrease to near zero after adolescence. Genetic influence on psychological traits is ubiquitous, and psychological researchers must incorporate this fact into their research programs else their theories will be ‘‘scientifically unimpressive and technologically worthless,’’ to quote Meehl again.</i> </blockquote>
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<i>"PETER BORCHELT, IAN DUNBAR, RICHARD POLSKY and JAMES HA believe that purpose bred dogs, artificially selected for violent combat for 200 years are not genetically predisposed to violence. BORCHELT, DUNBAR, POLSKY and HA believe it is equally wrong to think that nurture plays second fiddle to nature in dogs. Unfortunately, they have been able to convince others of their distorted beliefs too."</i></blockquote>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131767958965903991.post-13879654892503895562014-12-31T21:47:00.001-08:002014-12-31T21:47:50.649-08:00What 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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<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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<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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<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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<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>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131767958965903991.post-46999485423575289702014-12-29T17:34:00.004-08:002014-12-29T17:38:32.705-08:00Attacked Where They Slept<div style="text-align: justify;">
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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>11 day old Mya Maeda was mauled to death in her crib by the family's pitbull mix </li>
<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>
<li>3 month old Rayden Bruce was mauled to death by his father's pitbull while sleeping on his father'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>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131767958965903991.post-74256134570020805022014-12-15T21:17:00.000-08:002014-12-15T21:28:24.609-08:00Excellent quotes from "My Dog Doesn't Bite! The Parents Guide to Dangerous Dogs"<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/My-Dog-Doesnt-Bite-Dangerous-ebook/dp/B0052UPRVU">"My Dog Doesn't Bite!: The Parents Guide to Dangerous Dogs"</a></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dr. Jack Tillerson has practiced veterinary medicine for over twenty years and has witnessed the horrors associated with vicious dogs and canine attack. The majority of dog attack victims are children. These kids can be maimed, disfigured, or killed. The author knows that many of the 4.7 million dog bites that occur annually in the U.S. could be prevented if parents were better informed.<br />My Dog Doesn't Bite, by way of multiple sources and references, lists the dogs most likely to attack, maim, and kill. Readers will learn the myths and excuses used by owners of dangerous breeds in an effort to deflect criticism. There is also a discussion of little known diseases that humans, especially children, can contract from dogs. These diseases are found in unexpected places and can cause severe illness, including blindness and death.<br />There are a number of patterns associated with canine attack. These observations, along with a veterinarian's unique perspective, are used to educate readers on how to avoid becoming a canine attack victim. Read accounts from persons who were mauled by vicious dogs.Witness the frustrations of canine attack victims, or their survivors, as lives are are shattered in a matter of minutes.<br />Almost everyone has a story about dangerous dogs. Most of these events occur for a reason, making knowledge the best defense against canine attack. My Dog Doesn't Bite is like no other book currently in print. Dr. Tillerson assembles the bare facts on vicious dogs along with testimony from experts, victims, and a cynical veterinarian. Nearly one million Americans require medical care for dog bites every year. Laws protecting citizens are weak in most of th country. My Dog Doesn't Bite goes a long way to help you or a family member from becoming a canine attack statistic.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I went on to ask [a legislator's mouthpiece] if people can own Pit bulls and other dangerous breeds of dogs without restriction, then why not pumas, tigers, or for that matter, pythons. The assistant stated that exotics are not considered domestic animals as are pit bull dogs. If a python can be labeled as a reptiles of concern by the state of Florida, then why not classify dangerous breeds of dogs as canines of concern? <b>These animals heap far more morbidity upon humans than Burmese pythons ever will.</b></span></div>
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“Someday, the child of a well-known politician will be maimed or killed by an aggressive breed of dog. Along with media hoopla, there will be cries across the land to do something about dangerous dogs. <b>In the meantime, the rest of us will need eyes in the back of our heads. We will need to keep our families behind fences and pray that these mobile creatures of destruction do not cross our paths</b>. Perhaps someday, legislators like those in Denver and Miami will realize that <b>protecting citizens from canine attacks is more important than a few extra votes.”</b></div>
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“The reporter was interviewing a man described as a dog expert of one kind or another. The subject was how to defend against a canine attack. The expert described using your bicycle or other objects as a barrier. He said that raising your arms will give the appearance of being larger. There was also the old water spraying technique. The man sounded reasonable. The reporter went on to ask what to do in the event the attacking dog was a pit bull. The expert briefly looked at the ground, seemingly embarrassed as there was no quick answer to the question. The man looked up, smiled sheepishly, and said,<i> "Give him your bad arm."</i> </div>
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“The behavior of the pit bulls that attacked Bonnie has been seen over and over. The breed is a prime offender. Sometimes they circle, but <b>often these dogs attack without barking or hesitation</b>. The dogs were persistent and did not back away.”</div>
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“With weak statues and lax enforcement of them, <b>canine attacks are part of twenty first century life in America. Ownership of vicious dog breeds is socially acceptable, and authorities do little to deter the practice</b>. Parents<b> must maintain constant vigilance</b> to keep their children safe. It is a defense that is <b><i>incomplete at best</i></b>. Unfortunately, in many parts of the country, that is as good as it gets.”</div>
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“There are a lot of people who will say the problem of dangerous dogs does not exist or is exaggerated… I hear of bites, attacks, and fatalities <b>on a regular basis</b>. Too many owners of vicious dogs are <b>apathetic toward the dangers their pets present</b>, until some innocent is attacked. Most of these attacks are on children.</div>
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“I have practiced veterinary medicine for more than twenty years and have heard every excuse, B.S. story, and cliché in the book. If you could see what I see in the veterinary clinic, you would know that <b>the problems of dangerous dogs is vastly <i>understated</i></b>.”</div>
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“The difference between nasty small dogs and their larger counterparts is <b>significant.</b> ...The difference between a mean Chihuahua, Yorkshire terrier, or Miniature Pincer and a mean Rottweiler is that a small dog is <i>not</i> likely to <b>kill or disable you for life</b>. Little guys can hurt you, but they will not grab a two-year-old child by the abdomen and <b>shake him until there is nothing left for the surgeon to work with</b>. …One can put the direct comparison of nasty small dogs with large aggressive dogs <i>to<b> rest</b></i><b>.</b> The argument is like comparing <b>apples with oranges.</b>”</div>
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“These were horrible stories. ...I would use them in an attempt to <b>educate</b> clients when they came to the clinic with a dangerous dog of any breed. By and large, <b>it was a waste of time</b>. Still, I though the folks who were attacked needed to have their side of the story told. I <b>hoped</b> that sharing the stories <b>might help</b> others <b>avoid inflicting a future tragedy on an innocent victim</b>. <b>Unfortunately, most owners of dangerous dogs feel that a similar occurrence would never happen with their dog.</b> Their dog is a good dog. That is how almost all owners of dangerous dogs think. And why not? There is, in most cases, little ramification should the worst occur.”</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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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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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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<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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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>Defining ad hominem</u></b><br /><br />The phrase ad hominem argument (often called an ad hominem attack) comes from the <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Latin">Latin</a> "to the person." It also sometimes applies to any <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument">argument</a> that centers on <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Emotional_appeal">emotive</a> (specifically <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Red_herring">irrelevant</a> emotions) rather than <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rational">rational</a> or <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Logic">logical</a> appeal.<br /><br />As most people use the phrase in recent times, an ad hominem 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 <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Logical_fallacies">logical fallacies</a>, the <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Non_sequitur">non sequitur</a>, 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 <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Asshole">dick</a>.<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_hominem#cite_note-0">[1]</a> Even if the ad hominem 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.<br /><br /><b><u> How ad hominem works</u></b><br /><br />Ad hominem arguments work via the <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Halo_effect&action=edit&redlink=1">halo effect</a>, a <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias">cognitive bias</a> in which the perception of one trait is influenced by the perception of an unrelated trait, e.g.treating an attractive person as more <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Intelligent">intelligent</a> or more honest. People tend to see others as tending to all good or tending to all bad. Thus, if you can attribute a bad trait to your opponent, others will tend to doubt the quality of your opponent's arguments.<br /><br /><b><u>Subtle uses</u></b><br /><br />Often, ad hominem 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 <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Morality">morality</a> (they are not attacking the person's points about morality, they are attacking the person), or using <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Internet_law#Law_of_Exclamation">exclamations</a> (for example, "Jeez!") to imply that the person is incredibly slow at understanding your point.<br /><br /><b><u>Blatant uses</u></b><br /><br />Ad hominem attacks are hardly ever used plainly, and people who do are generally <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Troll">trolls</a> who want to provoke people to fight. These are often partnered with not even responding to the person's post, using arguments that make no sense, and thus have never been heard of, then mocking their opponent when they fail to find a rebuttal, and many other such techniques. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>False positives</u></b><br /><br />Ad hominem 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 because she is a woman would be a fallacious ad hominem 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 <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Courtier%27s_Reply">Courtier's Reply</a>. Similarly, pointing out someone's known track record on a subject would also not count. For instance, <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/YouTube">YouTube</a> creationist <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/VenomFangX">VenomFangX</a> has a past history of filing false <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/DMCA">DMCA</a> claims, and it would not be an ad hominem attack to bring this up should he file another. It would be an ad hominem however, if it was brought up to refute one of his <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/YEC">YEC</a> claims.<br /><br />Calling someone an idiot when you have explained the <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Evidence">evidence</a> five times and they still refuse to address it, or provide counterexamples, is not an ad hominem 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 ad hominem. It's only an ad hominem if you say the other person must be wrong because they are an idiot - not the other way round.<br /><br />Creationists sometimes make the mistake of calling a personal insult an ad hominem 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 ad hominem attacks in an attempt to obscure the soundness of the argument or their burden to respond by making an <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Emotional_appeal">emotional appeal</a>.<br /><br />A criticism is also not an ad hominem argument if a person's merits are actually the topic of the argument. A habitual liar is not physically incapable of telling the truth, and therefore dismissing their claims entirely is not valid, but it is certainly not incorrect to weigh their testimony as less trustworthy than that of someone with a reputation for studious honesty if comparing contradictory claims by the two.</span></blockquote>
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<a href="http://sruv-pitbulls.blogspot.com/">SRUV</a> put it best when they wrote "An entire genre of the advocacy movement has developed based not on evaluating the data but on character assassination." (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, Alexandra Semyonova, 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>.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131767958965903991.post-25292893644745043532014-12-07T10:49:00.000-08:002015-01-11T15:13:04.159-08:00One Breed, A Million Excuses.<div style="text-align: center;">
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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. It's like the abusive psychopath who blames the rest of the world for his self-created problems... any and every excuse, no matter how wrong or ridiculous... 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, I will attempt to provide information debunking every fallacious, empty 'talking point' issued by sociopaths eager to 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; font-size: large;"><b>The trash that needs to be taken out;</b></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The media has it out for pitbulls. (over-reports, misreports, under-reports on 'other breed attacks', 'never posts good stories', etc.)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">People misidentify pit bulls (crucial in insinuating the attack/kill counts by pit bulls is much smaller than issued). ...and the related;</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Staffordshire terriers and pit bulls are totally different breeds.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pit bull is not a breed.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pit bulls are only dog aggressive.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pit bulls are stable/safe/appropriate companion pets.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pit bulls are great service dogs.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pit bulls are loyal and protective.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pit bulls were nanny dogs.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pit bulls were bred as farm dogs (or for any purpose other than dog-fighting and blood-sport).</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pit bulls were once so popular they were 'America's Dog'.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Any/all dogs bite/kill.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Only abused/neglected/fight-trained/provoked/unsocialized/untrained pit bulls attack. (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;</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It's the owners not the dogs.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pit bulls are just like any other dog.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">BSL kills innocent dogs.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">BSL punishes good owners.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">BSL doesn't work.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Your breed is next./In the (insert decade here) it was the dobermans/rottweilers/German shepherds/(insert allegedly maligned breed here), now it's the pit bull..."</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">BSL supporters are nothing more than 'haters'.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">dogsbite.org is a bunch of lies made up by a pit bull hater.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Animal experts support (insert any of the above claims).</span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131767958965903991.post-10286547389554030102014-10-20T19:37:00.000-07:002014-10-20T20:58:33.706-07:00Some Disturbing Parallels<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
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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 fatal 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></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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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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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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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 />
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<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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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 />
As a general and approximate guideline only, the desirable height range for<b> mature males is from 18 to 21 inches at the withers</b>; for <b>mature females it is from 17 to 20 inches</b> at the withers.<br />
It is <i>important to note that dogs over or under these weight and height ranges are not to be penalized </i>unless they are disproportionately massive or rangy.<br />
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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Here is an AmStaff that won 'best in show' according to the AKC:</div>
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A purebred pitbull:</div>
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Purebred pitbulls:</div>
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Another Staffordshire competitor:</div>
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Purebred pitbulls:</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 accuse 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) of racism and discrimination... ...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) </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Merle</span><a href="https://www.akc.org/about/glossary.cfm#merl" style="font-size: small;"> https://www.akc.org/about/glossary.cfm#merl</a><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) </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> UKC Breed Standard </span><a href="http://www.ukcdogs.com/Web.nsf/Breeds/Terrier/AmericanPitBullTerrier" style="font-size: small;">http://www.ukcdogs.com/Web.nsf/Breeds/Terrier/AmericanPitBullTerrier</a><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 </span><a href="http://www.miamidade.gov/animals/library/pit-bull-ordinance-89-22.pdf" style="font-size: small;">http://www.miamidade.gov/animals/library/pit-bull-ordinance-89-22.pdf</a></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wakeena Tyree was in for a rude awakening around 6:30 a.m. Monday as she was getting her baby out of the back seat of her car in the Highland Crest neighborhood of southeast Topeka.</span></i> </div>
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<i><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tyree, 37, said she heard two pit bull dogs bark at her in the predawn darkness. She said she turned and saw the dogs standing in the middle of the street in the 3300 block of S.E. Colfax.</span></i> </div>
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<i><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In short order, Tyree said, the dogs charged at her.</span></i> </div>
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<i><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A short time later, a Topeka police officer fired two rounds, both of which struck and killed one of the “vicious” pitbulls.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But before that happened, Tyree had to take quick action to keep herself and her baby safe.</span></i> </div>
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<i><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As the pair of dogs began to charge at her, Tyree said, “I told them to go home. I guess that made them mad.”</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Holding her 5-month-old son, Christian, in her left arm, away from the dogs, Tyree jumped on the hood of her car, parked in a driveway on the east side of S.E. Colfax.</span></i> </div>
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<i><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She used her feet to kick at the dogs as they tried to jump on top of her car, she said.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just then, a neighbor across the street saw what was happening and yelled out “Go home” at the dogs, who then turned and headed north on S.E. Colfax toward the man’s house.</span></i> </div>
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<i><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tyree said a police car arrived on the scene about the same time. She said the officer got out of his patrol car and was charged by the dogs.</span></i> </div>
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<i><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The officer, Tyree said, swung his baton back and forth three times, backing up in the process, before using his gun to shoot one of the dogs two times. The dog died at the scene. The other dog, meanwhile, took off running and police hadn’t located it by 9 a.m.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The officer didn’t want to shoot the dog,” Tyree said. “It was his last resort.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Well gosh... These people triggered the attacks donch'ya know? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><u>Trigger </u></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1.) being a police officer </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2.) opening a car door </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">3.) yelling around a pitbull </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">4.) unloading a car </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">5.) being a baby </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">6.). Getting out of your car </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">7.) Fleeing an attack </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1.) </span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">http://www.dogsbite.org/blog-posts-police-shootings-of-pit-bulls.php</span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">2.) </span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">http://blog.dogsbite.org/2008/05/opening-car-door-sends-pit-bull-into.html</span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">3.) </span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">http://blog.dogsbite.org/2008/07/comment-anatomy-of-whitewash.html</span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">4.) </span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">http://blog.dogsbite.org/2008/07/pit-bulls-consistently-attack-their.html</span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">5.) </span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">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 </span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">6.) </span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">http://www.dogsbite.org/dogsbite-search-results.php?cx=003395341087663039786%3Aze_5rreyew4&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=Attack%2C+getting+out+of+a+car&sa.x=0&sa.y=0 </span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">7.) </span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">http://www.dogsbite.org/dogsbite-search-results.php?cx=003395341087663039786%3Aze_5rreyew4&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=Attacked+while+fleeing&sa.x=0&sa.y=0 </span></span></i><br />
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<br />One of the most common phrases parroted over and over by pit bull fanatics is a one two punch of, "you're ignorant--get educated". Very rarely is such a comment quantified or qualified further. The only premise is a personal anecdote "MY pit bulls... so-on-and-so-forth". To this sweeping knee-jerk assumption-accusation I posit;<br /><br />Please, bastions of pit bull knowledge, enlighten with superior tutelage, surely--thoroughly and academically--answering all of the following basic/necessary questions about the contentious aspects of pit bull zealotry against safety/awareness/BSL advocates (the accused "liars" or "uneducated"):<br /><br /><ul>
<li>What breeds were the stock from which the pitbull line was formed, and for what traits were these ancestral breeds sought? </li>
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<li>Why did the AKC initially refuse acknowledgement of a pitbull breed standard in the early 1900s? </li>
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<li>Why was the UKC formed and what was the criteria for recognizing a pitbull per breed standard during the UKCs earlier years? </li>
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<li>Who is John P Colby and why is he considered the grandfather of pitbulls? </li>
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<li>When people talk favorably about pitbull temperament, to which test are they referring and what aspects of temperament is that test designed to assess? </li>
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<li>When did the rates of human and animal disfigurement and fatalities skyrocket and which breeds correlating popularity rise in tandem? </li>
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<li>What brain structures are uniquely exaggerated in pitbulls? </li>
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<li>During aggressive/violent activity, what endocrine response occurs uniquely to pitbulls and which neurochemicals are involved? </li>
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<li>How is a serious and fatal dog mauling processed by authorities? </li>
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<li>Which authorities are involved and what procedures are protocol? </li>
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<li>Who among these identify breed and what are their credentials? </li>
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<li>Why do pitbulls have idiopathic aggression? </li>
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<li>Can you even identify and explain idiopathic aggression? </li>
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<li>What physiological traits do pitbulls have that other breeds don't (superior clotting factor, for example) and for what purpose would these traits have evolved for? </li>
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<li>What special interest groups fund and run the NCRC and what methods does it employ to issue "reports" in fatal dog incidents? </li>
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<li>What is a break stick, and why is it important for pitbull owners to possess them and know how to employ them? </li>
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<li>What is the "crate and rotate" protocol developed by and encouraged by pitbull breeders and fanciers? </li>
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<li>Why is it sound practice for this particular breed? </li>
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<li>When trotting out numbers to use as a testament to the 'failure' of BSL, which issue is being tabulated, and which is omitted--bite frequency, or bite severity/number of dog related disfigurements and/or fatalities? </li>
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<li>What can account for the numerical disparity between the occurrence of severe dog mauling occurring in US jurisdictions and countries with pit bull bans and areas of the United States without them?</li>
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<li>What do trauma surgeons and staff (from around the country) report, in terms of severity, frequency, and patient outcomes, as specific to pit bull mauling victims?</li>
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<li>Compared to other breeds, what percentage of pit bull owners/their families are attacked by their own dogs?</li>
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<li>Compared to other breeds, what percentage of pit bull attacks are unprovoked?</li>
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<li>Compared to other breeds, what percentage of pit bull attacks are committed by dogs with no observable history of abuse or neglect?</li>
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<li>Compared to other breeds, what percentage of pit bull attacks are committed by life-long family dogs with no previous history of aggression?</li>
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<li>Compared to other breeds, what percentage of pit bull attacks are committed by spayed/neutered dogs?</li>
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<li>What is the trademark pitbull "bite" style and how does it differ from the normal "snap-and-release" defensive/fear/dominance biting of other dogs?</li>
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<li>What delineations are present in canine body language as it pertains to pit bulls?</li>
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<li>What are "tells" and how was this trait conditioned in or out according to the purpose breeding of the pit bull breed?</li>
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<li>How often are other-breed discipline/control/training/cease-attack measures effective for pit bulls; how much or little are these dogs affected by collars, leads, muzzles, containment devices, water-hosing, distracting, beating, tazing, stabbing, or even shooting?</li>
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<li>What is the typical duration of a pit bull attack and how starkly does that time period overshadow other breeds?</li>
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<li>Why do pit bulls attack and kill people, if allegedly for nourishment, but largely fail to feed on the body, even when left alone with it for a substantial amount of time?</li>
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<li>Why does pit bull advocacy demand pedigree papers to verify attacking breed (even when breeders, owners, animal control, even courts of law for litigious purposes, and/or practitioners of veterinary medicine collaborate on a positive breed ID consensus) but do not do so when it comes to free S&N procedures, 'hero' stories, etc.?</li>
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<li>Furthermore, why are ambiguous bulldogs such as Seargant Stubby and the dog from The Little Rascals co-opted for propaganda purposes but does that are easily and visibly identifiable as pitbulls--such as "Mickey" who tore off Kevin Vicente's face, or the six Florida pit bulls of the most recent fatal mauling (that killed their owner's preschooler)--go refuted, disputed, and under intensely unfounded and exorbitant speculation?</li>
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<li>what does pitbull advocacy juggernaut BADRAP have to say about the "nanny dog" revisionism? </li>
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<br />References, citations, and/or sources for every answer, please.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131767958965903991.post-31732230811619553962014-08-17T10:55:00.003-07:002014-08-23T11:59:43.933-07:00Media persecution of the pitbull--conspiracy theory<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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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.
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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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. </div>
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Pit bull 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.
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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 hundreds 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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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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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 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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Despite knowing nothing definitive of the dog's history and circumstances, the article included speculation about what 'made' the dog attack;
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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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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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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. </div>
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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. </div>
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Professional dog-fighters often have large numbers of pitbulls--50 or more. The number of people estimated to be involved in dog-fighting in the US alone numbers in the tens of thousands.(31d) According to an HSUS 2007 report, annually, approximately a quarter-million pitbulls were placed in fighting pits nationwide, approximately 40,000 people were involved in organized dog-fighting, and another 100,000 people were involved in 'street-level' dog-fighting.(31e) </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)
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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. </div>
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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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1. https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-325039A1.pdf </div>
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8b. 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
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14. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2716890/Grandmother-59-mauled-death-family-pit-bull-Polo-two-year-old-grandson.html
14b. http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/crime-law/dog-involved-in-fatal-attack-will-be-euthanized/ngw3y/ </div>
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23. http://dangerousdognews.wordpress.com/2014/08/06/woman-seriously-injured-after-dog-attack-news-the-register-guard-eugene-oregon/ </div>
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33. http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/butler-county/middletown-community/police-shoot-pit-bull-during-middletown-drug-busts </div>
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35. http://dangerousdognews.wordpress.com/2014/08/03/cop-shoots-pit-bull-after-attack-on-smaller-animals/
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530057459273948515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131767958965903991.post-20158402114903273602014-02-24T19:56:00.000-08:002015-01-03T19:57:08.647-08:00Not a Service Breed<br />
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This post was first published on<a href="http://thecaninegamechanger.blogspot.com/"> the Canine Game Changer</a> blog on February 24, 2014. It has been updated and modified here since.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/leeds-dog-attack-emma-bennett-2913587">http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/leeds-dog-attack-emma-bennett-2913587</a><br /></div>
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<i>"Mum-of-four Emma Bennett, 27, was found unconscious at her home in Leeds with horrendous injuries to her head and face...</i></div>
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<i>"Witnesses spoke of “crazy” scenes as up to 30 police officers, including an armed team, descended on the street in Leeds.</i></div>
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<i>"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.”</i></div>
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<i>"...it wanted to go for her whenever she was having a fit [epilepsy]."</i></div>
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She is younger than I am, with two more children than I have. A fourth (or is it fifth?) person to be mauled during an epileptic seizure. This is why pit bull bans make sense. This is why pitbulls are grossly inappropriate for use as service dogs. They are too unstable to handle even a life of gentle love and care at home with the people who cherish 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. </div>
<br /> 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... where on earth can they be a safe companion? <br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">
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?</div>
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They "listen".</div>
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That's all.</div>
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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 not pose great risk of dismembering children without provocation. Any animal incapable 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.</div>
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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, and their dogs on the public. Some are deluded enough to genuinely believe these animals are great service dogs, on par with any other service animal.</div>
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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. </div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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. </div>
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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, or a Pomeranian to take down wild boars. These are simple facts of reason, common sense, and biology. </div>
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Time and again, they (and their owners) proved to be an awful service dog candidate;</div>
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Repeatedly aggressive with other dogs, un-certified but misleading others by presenting a simple dog license as something more, lying about certification.<span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2009/02/pit-bull-service-dog-kicked-off.html">http://blog.dogsbite.org/2009/02/pit-bull-service-dog-kicked-off.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: .HelveticaNeueUI;"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;">Attacking legitimate service dogs. </span></span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); background-color: white; font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2008/09/pit-bull-attacks-seizure-alert-service.html">http://blog.dogsbite.org/2008/09/pit-bull-attacks-seizure-alert-service.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); background-color: white; font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;">Killing their owner in her sleep. </span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); background-color: white; font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://blog.dogsbite.org/2008/01/fatality-victim-kelli-chapman-killed-by.html">http://blog.dogsbite.org/2008/01/fatality-victim-kelli-chapman-killed-by.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); background-color: white; font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;">Tearing out their owner's throat </span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); background-color: white; font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2006.php#coleman">http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2006.php#coleman</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: .HelveticaNeueUI;"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;">And breaking his neck too </span></span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); background-color: white; font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2005.php#lorinze-reddings">http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2005.php#lorinze-reddings</a></span></div>
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<span class="userContent">Attacking an 85yo man in his wheelchair </span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); background-color: white; font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/blog/2008/08/pit-bull-attacks-columbus-man-85-in.html">http://www.dogsbite.org/blog/2008/08/pit-bull-attacks-columbus-man-85-in.html</a></span></div>
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