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I was a pit bull owner. My pit bulls name was Jax. I was not only a pit bull owner but, I also was a responsible pit bull owner to a very friendly pit bull. For example, I would take my pit bull on walks, to the vet, he was trained and good with kids. I would like to change people's thinking that all pit bulls are not bad. Some pit bulls are heros and save lives. I believe that people should be allowed to have a choice to keep pit bulls as pets.
The media is biased against pit bulls. Media reports attacks by unknown dog breeds as pit bulls. News outlets consistently tell animal control officers they will not cover an attack unless it involves a pit bull. Despite that other dogs also attack they are not publicized in the media. By their media report content, doing this has an effect on the public's eye and leaves them with no choice but to automatically believe that pit bulls are dangerous.
Pit bulls are working dogs. Pit bulls are used for hunters, guardians, herders and pets. This shows that pit bulls are good to keep at home. My dog Jax was an indoor dog and was helpful to warn when someone was at the door. He was very affectionate and loving and a great companion.
Pit bulls were a symbol of American pride. Stubby the pit bull captured the nation's heart during the war. He was the mascot. He also saved his platoon
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For example, the city of Miami voted to ban pit bulls because of one incident. In the article, Miami -Dade County Votes To Keep Pit bulls Out, it says that the ban was enacted after a pitbull viciously attacked a young girl. A neighbor's pit bull escaped from the house, and was sitting in the Moreira’s driveway. What the news didn’t mention was, what caused the pit bull to attack and what was the type of environment the dog was in before the attack or what did the young girl do to bother the dog? What if the dog was not a pit bull? Would this ban still
Pit bulls should be pets or mascots and many other things. They kept the dogs for hunters and back for the people that hunted so nothing would happen to them, and if something did happened to them
If all other breeds are not judged for attacking people, then why are all pit bulls being unfairly judged? Pitbulls are being banned in different counties because they are being wrongly accused of being dangerous. Pit Bulls should not be banned because they can be helpful, the media has given them a bad reputation, and they are only mean if trained that way.
Perhaps the reason why pit bulls are feared by society is because we are afraid of what they are associated with. Pit bulls are often thought of as a gangster’s pet, a role in violent and illegal activities. People stereotype this breed because of the unfortunate acts of few. In contrast, society needs to understand that they are being racist towards a breed of dog. Denver’s systematic killing of pit bulls could be compared to the actions of the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Thesis Statement: Pit bulls are like any breed of dogs that needs to be handled properly by their owners because they can be taught to be less aggressive and more loyal.
It is the bad owners that give the pit bull a bad name. Contrary to that popular belief, dangerous animal behavior is the function of inherently dangerous dog owners, not inherently dangerous dogs. One fact that supports this is that pit bulls are the dogs most often shot during drug raids(TELLINGS v. Toledo). Besides the pit bulls that are owned by drug dealers for status symbols and protection, many pit bulls are owned by people that breed them for fighting. These poor dogs have a very slim chance of living a normal and happy life. This is not the fault of the dog, but the fault of the owners that should not have the dog, or should care for them better. The dogs that are forced to fight and are conditioned to defend themselves or die. When these dogs get loose, everything is a threat to them and they defend themselves in the name of survival. If golden retrievers were bred and raised with the sole purpose of fighting to the death, they would be just as dangerous as pit bulls. On the contrary, if all pit bulls were bred and treated as family dogs, they would have the same reputation as golden retrievers, if not better as the statistics found in the temperament test above
Pit Bulls have the stigmata of being a vicious, fighting dog. When in fact the Pit Bull is a fun-loving dog that loves playing with its family and friends. It is typically a playful, social, friendly, docile, timid dog
Pit-Bulls are being banned from almost every state because they are seen as violent hostile dogs. Which they are not any dog you have can be turned into an aggressive dog not just Pit-Bulls. A Pit-bull is a dog of an American variety of bull terriers, noted for its muscular build and often associated with ferocity. The talk about banning pit-bulls started in 1986. The banning of pit-bulls should be stopped. How can you just up and ban one type of bread of dog because of how people make them out to be. There are more violent dogs out in the world besides pit bulls. If they want to punish someone they should punish the people who turn these dogs into such monsters.
The news makes every thing sound bigger than it is if it involves pit bulls. People who watch the news makes people scared of bulls and other things. The news can make the dog a target for bad people to what to by them to heart people. The news will say a dog is a pit bull because they what the problem was to be bigger then it was .They will say that to make the dog seam more aggressive and mean then it was.
From the very beginning, pit bulls were used as farm dogs, family dogs, military mascots, and all-purpose companions. [slide 3]
A common thread in pit bull attacks is a lack of supervision and care, Bill Smith the director of the Robeson County Health Department said “None of them are ever vaccinated, which shows a lack of ownership or control by the owner.”. Melissa Longo works with Mikey's Haven 4 Pit Bulls said “ our dogs are a prime example of the fact that it's not the dogs it's the people.”. This goes to show that when the media talks about another pit bull attack the article fails to mention the owner of the dog either abused the dog or never socialized the dog as a puppy. Based on a few examples of bad ownership the entire breed has been drug down into the dirt, what the media doesn't share with the public is all of the good stories involving pit bulls. The American media has given disproportionate coverage to violent incidents that involve pit bulls, academic studies that gather data only get the data from media reports who do not measure the violence of pit bulls so much as the American media’s obsession with the topic (Romeo,
When pit bulls are either being protective of their owner or being aggravated they can sometimes be aggressive and when this happens that's when news articles and the media start giving pit bulls a bad name so we should look at the pit bulls statistics.A five-year review of dog-bite injuries from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, published in 2009 in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, found that almost 51 percent of the attacks were from pit bulls, almost 9 percent were from Rottweilers and 6 percent were from mixes of those two
Pit bulls are the most dangerous dogs in the world. How many times have you heard that nonsense? In reality, Pit bulls are no more dangerous than any other breed. The topic of Pit bulls being dangerous is controversial because the media only tells us about the Pits that hurt people, not the ones that are loving and affectionate. Those who are afraid of Pit bulls have probably never met one. People have turned this wonderful breed of dog into something that people are afraid of. If people focus on the good in Pits and not the bad, then we would not have breed-specific laws. A breed specific law of legislation is a law passed by a legislative body pertaining to a specific
Pit bulls have the most common misinterpretation for only being used for illegal activities such as dog fighting, because of their athletic and stocky body. However, before dogfighting was ever popular,
Pit bulls are blamed so much on the media. People just believe anything that people say on it even if it’s not true. The news people tell the dog catchers to only report the pit bull attacks not any other type of dog attacks. Although it might not have been a pit bull, and a different breed of dog, the damage is done. Now the public is even more afraid of pit bulls than they were before. The media talks about pit bull attacks, but it's all in the eye of the beholder. People on the media base things on opinion not facts. Many people are believing lies on the media.
It is easy to forget that Pit bulls did not always have such a bad history and were once an American favorite. "Far from being considered a killing machine on legs, pit bulls seem to be an American favorite in the early half of the century — indeed, during World War I, the country itself is personified as a pit bull on army recruitment posters, and several pit bulls go on to become famous in the American military” (Bastian). People do not realize that they were a beloved breed and did not have such a horrible reputation for causing fatalities. It is not impossible to train this breed to become obedient and gentle towards humans. However, for this to happen, it starts with the reasons why this once loving breed, turned so violent. Not all the blame that is unleashed solely on the dog can continue because they turn into what their owners create. The way we view Pit bulls and other