Ignorance Kills One Million Pit Bulls per Year General Chat

Malka · Jul 7, 2014

Article by Douglas Anthony Cooper

I was a bigot. Hence, I can sympathize with all those who still are. I was terrified of pit bulls. I knew very little about them, but what I'd heard in the media sure sounded terrifying: how their jaws locked; how they were uniquely bred to kill humans; how the nicest of them -- unlike other dogs -- had psychotic breaks, where they suddenly turned murderous.

It's utter garbage. All of it. Even the term "pit bull" -- as used here -- is junk zoology.

The silliest of these lies is pretty easy to debunk: one minute on Google, and you'll discover that these dogs' jaws aren't unique. They certainly don't lock. No more than yours do. (Not in the absence of tetanus, anyway: when jaws lock -- canine or human -- we're talking about very sick creatures.)

The problem is that I -- like most people -- didn't really want to know anything different. I was convinced of my position; it was easy to find all sorts of casual evidence in the media; I was deeply suspicious of attempts to argue me out of it.

Luckily, I had a girlfriend who knew an awful lot more about dogs than I did. It took her years, but she finally convinced me to do the research: to read the veterinary journals, to investigate the unsavory sources of the anti-pit-bull propaganda. And when I did, it became embarrassingly clear: my fear and hatred was -- like all bigotry -- founded on nothing more than ignorance.
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6JRT's · Jul 7, 2014

I grew up with Pitbuls they all got on fine with our other dogs & the cats.
I blame the media for scaring people,with all their lies about Pitbulls, Staffies & Mastiffs, plus the idiots that condition these dogs to fight.
As any dog can bite from the smallest Chihuahua to the tallest Wolfhound, not just Pitbulls, Staffies & Mastiffs

Azz · Jul 8, 2014

Deed not breed.

We need to ban idiot-owners, not breeds...

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