Newfoundland owners don’t want to admit that it runs with the breed. Maybe they’re afraid of the philosophical implications.
Bulldog owners don’t want to admit that it runs with the breed. Maybe they’re afraid of the philosophical implications.
German Shepherd owners don’t want to admit that it runs with the breed. Maybe they’re afraid of the philosophical implications.
Doberman owners don’t want to admit that it runs with the breed. Maybe they’re afraid of the philosophical implications.
The media did it to those breeds before, they're doing it to pit bulls now. They're doing the same thing with dogs that they did with alar on apples, shark attacks in the summer of '01 and GM trucks in '92.
http://nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/pit-bull-placebo-text1.pdf
http://www.badrap.org/rescue/breed.html
In extensively designed temperament tests, Pits score better than the Golden Retriever and several points better than Beagles.
Yeah, but at least the Golden will bring your arm back!
Do you think Billy Joe Mullet and Ghetto Bob are taking their backyard bred pit bulls to “The Golden Triangle Irish Setter Club” to have them temperament tested? I doubt it. If they did, the results would be skewed a bit. I’m betting the test candidates are brought in by people who are proud of them and work with them.
Reading more of the blog I mentioned earlier, there is a page on the temperament test. It puts that test in a whole new light.
http://thetruthaboutpitbulls.blogspot.com/
“Yet the pit bull advocates present the stats in such a way as to imply that higher scores equal less aggression and lower scores equal more aggression. According to Herkstroeter, “Just because a certain percentage of dogs in a certain breed fail, this does not necessarily indicate aggression. Dogs fail for other reasons, such as strong avoidance. If you look at our statistics just from a perspective of aggression or non-aggression, they can be very misleading.” Herkstroeter states that 95% of the dogs that fail, do so because they lack confidence to approach the weirdly dressed stranger or walk on the strange surface. The remaining 5% fail because they take longer than 45 seconds to recover from the gunshot or the umbrella. Still pit bull advocates continue to distort the meaning of the test.”
And like I initially suspected, only good dogs are taken for testing.
“The link to Diane Jessup advising fellow thepitbull-place.com members to enter only dogs that will pass the ATTS, was killed after I posted it on craven desires. Please alert me to any dead links and I will replace with pdfs and/or screen shots.”
