It's Time to End the Prejudice Against Pit Bulls General Chat

Malka · Jul 7, 2014

Article from Arin Greenwood, Editor of the Huffington Post

My dog Murray and I were taking our usual amble through town the other day, when we came upon a puppy we hadn't seen before. I don't know a lot of my human neighbors, but I've got a pretty comprehensive roster of all the dogs around town. We stopped to get to know this little golden bundle of wiggles, but her owner snatched her off.

"I don't want her playing with pit bulls," he said to me, dragging the puppy away.

The thoughts that went through my head directly after this encounter are not printable in a family publication. Here are the thoughts that are:

1. It is truly astonishing how many otherwise progressive people consider their prejudice against pit bulls to be perfectly reasonable, when the data shows it isn't; and

2. Given that Murray isn't even actually a pit bull, this encounter highlights one of the major reasons that prejudice against pit bulls is extremely problematic: it's really hard to tell which mixed-breed dogs are even actually pits.

Pit bulls are subjected to an almost unimaginably cruel world, in which they are subjected to every kind of violence -- and then, at the end of it, are euthanized in shelters at shockingly high rates, because families are afraid to bring them home, landlords won't rent to the families who do bring them home and localities impose restrictions on their ownership, despite ample evidence that these restrictions do nothing to improve public safety.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arin-greenwood/pit-bulls-time-magazine_b_5521281.html?utm_hp_ref=dogs

6JRT's · Jul 7, 2014

I grew up with Pitbulls they are not aggressive dogs nor do they attack other dogs/cats, we had other dogs & cats at same time as the pitbulls they all got on together.

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