Again, who are these unnamed experts?
“Again, who are these unnamed experts?”<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
You want names? I’m sorry but I don’t know them personally. It should be easy enough to find out if you are really curious. However, I presume your question is not purely for education. It’s alright either way. The names of the site owners are on the sites. Their professions are often listed as well.
As for the study they are all talking about (the second one mentioned on that page you linked to), experts aside, you should be able to see the faults from a mile away even if you don’t have an education in an animal-related field.
Oh, forgot to ask you where in Cali you are? I see plenty of rotties and dobies with docked tails, but I have only ever seen one pit bull without a tail, and I believe that was from an injury. According to the breed standard, the tail doesn’t get in the way of the job, so there’s no need to cut it off. Pit bulls customarily will have cropped ears, and perhaps that is what Clifton meant to say, but the fact that he can’t tell the difference between the main breeds and their looks is kind of shocking to me, considering he’s the editor of Animal People. What made things worse for him, I think, was that he misspelled so many different things, and even used names for dogs that didn’t exist (or combined two unrelated breeds as if they were the same). Apparently, he’s not even good at the job he’s been hired for!