very powerful piece on pitbulls

[BlueIce]

http/www.pitbullproblem.tk/

 

[Bloo]

Link just does not want to work for me ?

 

[BlueIce]

it's a very slow loading page...

 

[jimw13uk]

Do you have a popup blocker - I had to turn mine off for that page to work but it did work once that was sorted out

 

[Bloo]

wow indeed powerful !

 

[gaya]

made me frigging cry.

 

[Haiku]

I saw that when it came out last year (originally was on the DeviantART site), and since then have kept it bookmarked to share with anyone interested. It's an incredibly powerful piece, well done using quotes, statistics, and images. The good images bring tears as much as the bad ones do, and it never fails to move me no matter how many times I watch it.

Edit: It's where I took the bottom quote from in my signature.

 

[Erised]

Glad I wasn't the only one to cry about it It is indeed very powerful

It's really not what I was expecting when I opened it, I figured it would be one of the so many "pitbull bit child" story and about how evil they are *sigh* ... I can't express how happy I am, that it wasnt one of those

Pitbulls are such gorgeous dogs, I really hope more people will see this site and understand the true nature of them.

 

[mm_simb]

I can't see the link...it automatically shows a "can't find the site" thing. But I think I've seen it before. It's indeed really sad.

 

[oneponygirl]

I finally got it to load and I'm so glad I waited. The person who created this has so poignantly stated things I have been saying for years. Pits are the most loving dogs, so much so they will be anything their owner wants them to be and, sadly, that is frequently a mean dog. They don't know they're being mean, they're just trying to please their owners.

In all my years at vet hospitals I've had more attempted bites from dachsunds, Jack Russels and cockers than any other dogs. I don't think I've ever had a near bite from a Pit. My dog frequently gets "accused" of being a Pit mix (he's not). I correct people just so they'll give him a chance to see how friendly and obedient he is. If they think he's a Pit after that, that's fine with me, maybe their opinion will be changed. He has pictures up at dogster and at my site My Webpage. I encourage you to check him out because, well, because he's beautiful and I love him. I gotta go give him a hug now and tell him, yet again, how lucky he was to be adopted by me and not someone who wanted to fight, abuse or otherwise neglect him.

 

[NinjaSmurf]

Very well done. Good find Blue.

 

[Diggy415]

THAT was awsome!@ Im one of those "pitbull are mean" ppl but its a learned behavior, and natural instinct that gets them that rap from the wrong ppl thnks alot, i passed that one on!! I can see clearly now. I have a rott!

 

[FishEnthusiast]

I found this to be very powerful. It really tore me in both directions though. I know that the aggression is a learned behaviour. What I have a problem with is I was attacked by a pit bull when I was a child. I was walking down the street and a pitbull and a german shepard surrounded me and the pit bull was lunging at my face and arms. I have been scared of both german shepherds and pitbulls ever since that day. Also, when my daughter was a baby, I took her to a friends house. He had a pitbull that he said was a total sweetie. I brought my 1 month old over, and he immediately lunged for her. So as much as I would really like to love these dogs, I find it really hard.

In my friends defense, he got the dog at 2 years of age. He is pretty sure the dog was neglected before he got it. This same dog bit his mom so hard she needed stiches, that attack was unprovoked. As was the attack on his girlfriend that left her without an ear. That dog was put down after that.

 

[Opcn]

I think its a crock, pittbulls got there reputation through preforming as they wer ebred to, temperment and physical ability are both things that can be bred fo, yet as soon as someone does everyone denies that it hapens. I don't trust any predator thats big enought that man isn't incharge, its never the owners who suffer really,m its always some poor kid who loses his face or some girl who loses an arm to infection from a puncture wound, if any pieve of machinery were to start itself up and kill or injure someone so regulary as large mean breeds of dogs do it would be recalled and scrapped, but denying breeding rights to animals is ever so wrong.

 

[Haiku]

Many attacks are blamed on "pit bulls" (and of course the media leaps for any 'pit bull' attack so yes, that's what you hear of even though other breeds bite much more frequently). But I'm willing to bet a great many of them aren't even pits or full pits. If a pit/lab mix bites someone, people call it a pit mix (not a lab mix) and blame the pit blood, even though statistically labs bite more people than pit bulls do. A mixed breed with a boxer, lab, rottie, American bulldog, mastiff, etc etc can look like a "pit bull" and be called that.

How many could pick out the real pit out of these pictures, and how many would just call all of them a pit bull?

http/www.pitbullsontheweb.com/petbull/findpit.html

Pits were not originally bred to be aggressive to man, they were bred to be particularly gentle with man so that he could haul him off a bull/bear/dog in the middle of a fight and not get bitten. If you have a belief that these dogs are inherently aggressive/vicious, I'd suggest you do real research on the breed and not simply believe media reports, or even automatically believe that a "vicious pit bull" you saw was necessarily really a pit bull.

That's all I have to say.