Posted on 11/23/2008 7:37:05 AM PST by kanawa
TAMPA, FL -- Angel the pit bull received quit a bit of attention recently after her story exposed many people to her plight. She was tossed from a moving car and managed to move her malnourished body to a home while she waited to be rescued. She is making a tremendous recovery so she was able to lead Saturday's Pit Bulls Pounding the Pavement Parade at the corner of Bayshore and Bay To Bay Boulevard.
She joined at least 40 other so called bully breeds and their owners for a 4 mile walk to promote a positive image for a breed that takes its share of verbal abuse. Angel was able to walk for a while until her caretakers took over to give her a breather.
Inquiries came from Georgia and North Carolina asking about how to help Angel. Most animal care organizations say there are many more abused animals similar to Angel we just don't hear about it and often the animals don't survive. Angel's pictures are shocking but her will to live is nothing short of remarkable.
Angel's is getting special help with Sunday's fund raiser to help with her medical bills from 9am-1pm at the Village Grooming 14442 N Dale Mabry, Tampa. Dog baths are offered for a $10 donation that includes nail trim, ear cleaning and the works!
You tell ‘em, Feiny! :)
Awwwww, now thats so sweet. Darn, my eyes are blurry and stinging a bit. Please put me on your ping list, too.
It's far more likely that this abuse was done by an irresponsible self-centered scofflaw that owns pit bulls..probably someone like you.
Fieny is a personal friend of mine. your assertions are ridiculous
Your hypocrisy is blatant.
Pit bulls are to gammie and tough I prefer Golden retrievers or Basset hound for grillin
Your ignorance is appalling.
Basset hound...the other white meat.
Your projection is stale.
Your "comebacks" are lame.
Thanks for the link. I’ve read most of this article and it’s clear the real problem is not the dog breed; instead, as with so many firearms, it’s the owners. A bunch of vile thugs, like Michael Vick (may he rot in Hell), have taken a group of initially decent dogs, abused them and provoked them to the point of turning them into unsocialized monsters. The same thugs then use them against law abiding people just they way they illegally use guns. Thus, the solution for the “pit bull problem” is the same as the solution for “guns on the street.” Get rid of the evil subhumans who are misusing the dogs and the guns.
Your projections are stale.
The breeding selections made by those owners over the years has manifested itself in the the violent behavior so frequently exhibited by pit bulls. As the article called out:
As Robin Kovary, a New York-based dog breeder and pit-bull fancier, acknowledges, "Once the word got out, 20 years ago or so, to youths who wanted a tough dog to show off with, the breed passed into less than responsible hands—kids who wanted the dogs to be as aggressive as they could be." Geneticist Zawistowski gives the upshot: "Irresponsible breeders have let the dogs' block against being aggressive to people disappear. They've created a kind of pit bull with what I call `undifferentiated aggression.' " A Milwaukee man learned this the hard way in January, when he tried to break up a fight between his two pit bulls and had one forearm ripped off and the other so badly mauled that doctors later had to amputate it.
That makes my heart ache. Incredible that she lived and is on her way to recovery.
I’ll bet she licked the hand of the s.o.b. who starved her and tossed her out to die.
Times like this, I question how mankind is worthy of dogkind.
I'm honored to include you.
Seemed to me the main point was PBT owners tend to be cruel. That’s my view of it. I didn’t see it as nakedly anti-PBT.
And if you want to know why I haven’t read and responded until now, it’s because I spent all afternoon in the emergency clinic with my GS since I stupidly cut her toenail way too far back. Very busy for them today, including 2 euthanasias while I was there (I waited 3-1/2 hrs). 1 dog, 1 cat, and I had talked a good deal with their owners as well as hugged them when they obviously put down the animals. So that puts another viewpoint on this whole thing for me.
Putting down your pet must be an awful experience.
You know you have to do the right thing but the hurt of the loss must terrible.
I get lost in sadness even contemplating the day I have to make that decision.
It was good of you to comfort them.
About the toenails have you tried using a dremel to trim them?
Trim a little with a clipper and then dremel the remainder.
He has a plasma I think
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