Informative Essay On Pitbulls

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Pitbulls
If i was to tell you a child was bitten in the face by a dog what breed would pop up into your head at first? It would be assumed that it was pitbull breed. In actuality pitbull dogs are one of the most lovable and caring breeds but have the highest misconception of being rather vicious and attack dogs. Like many other breeds pitbulls are breed to do something in their lives but the pitbulls are given the most media attention as their bred to be big,strong, and protective. There is a lot of good truth behind the breed of the pitbull but the things that could play into a dog or pitbull being aggressive or attacking are the treatment from the owner, history of dog/pitbull attacks, and illness.
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Now whenever someone brings up the topics of dog attacks or a dog biting someone in the news people automatically assume it is a pitbull. Yes we can say that pitbulls do attack sometimes but they aren't the only breed that attacks people, they just get the most media coverage because of assumptions of pitbulls being the worst dog. In actuality in a article from Canine Journal it talks about dog bite statistics and brings up the top dogs with the worst PSI (pound per square inch or pound-force per square inch) and it lists in order the dogs with the strongest PSI to the lowest and the top dog was the Kangal with the PSI of 743. Now the pitbull is on the list but they are at the bottom with the PSI of 235 which is a lot lower than a Kangal PSI. So this shows if you had been bitten by a pitbull they can do a lot less damage than another dog can with their bite PSI. Another article from The Atlantic goes more into talking about the media covering dog attacks and the misidentification of dogs in which pitbull actually isn't one form of a dog is it many breeds of dog but people assume it is one breed which leads to misidentification. In this article it says,”In 2008, a pit bull attack that hospitalized a woman generated 230 articles and televised reports in national and international news. A few days before, a mix-breed dog killed a 16-month-old child. The …show more content…

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Used to help understand pit bull stigma in media.
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Had info on statistics on dog bites.
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Helped to understand illness in dogs.
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Helped look into the medical issues that cause aggression.
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Gave illnesses with aggression issues.
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