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Pit bulls. Again.

“Pit bulls. Again.”

Ive heard it a thousand times... “it just the way they were raised”

Kind of like muslems, right?

Frankly I’ve never seen the attraction. There are literally hundreds of great breeds with far more predictable dispositions.

Wanna guard dog, try a German Shepard. Invariably trainable and almost always behaviorally controllable.

1 pit bull: 1 9mm problem solved

Should have shot the owners too.

This is an excerpt from the website "17 Barks". For the whole interview, you may wish to look there yourself. If you wish to know more, google Merritt Clifton. If you are beginning to be very concerned about breed-specific maulings and human and pet/livestock deaths, might want to begin creating your own information sources and database. A Pit Bull Advocate's Interview with Merritt Clifton [Editor's note: This series consists of two posts: A Pit Bull Advocate's Interview with Merritt Clifton, and a prefatory essay by Barbara Kay titled Sweet Revenge. "Mark" is a pseudonym; Ms Kay does not wish to call negative attention to his highly reputable college or its excellent film department. See Sweet Revenge for events leading to this interview.] The following email interview was conducted in February, 2013. Mark: Right off the bat, assuming someone doesn’t know your stance on the BSL issue, would you say that pit bulltype dogs are inherently more dangerous than most other breeds of dog? If so, what evidence would you use to support this assertion? Merritt Clifton: see: http://www.dogsbite.org/dogbitestatisticsstudydogattacksandmaimingsmerrittclifton. php The pattern discovered during the past 30plus years of data tracking turns out to have prevailed among nonrabid dog attack cases going all the way back to 1844, which is as far as the data can be reconstructed from published accounts. However, the frequency of attacks has increased exponentially, from fewer than one dog attack fatality per year in the middle decades of the 20th century to an average of more than 30 per year just by pit bulls since 2010. Also, more than half of all the pit bull fatalities & disfigurements of the past 30 years have occurred just since the Michael Vick dogfighting case broke in April 2007. Pit bulls had already accounted for half the total numbers of dog attack fatalities & disfigurements then. Mark: Looking at the report, and some summations of it, one would come to the conclusion that you feel pit bulls are an inherent danger to the public. Why is it that almost every single agency concerned with animal welfare and veterinary Breed Holocaust First They Came Martin Niemöller Premack's Second Principle Breed Holocaust The Concept of Breed By Any Other Name Pit bull Agility The Natural History of Fighting Breeds Do Fighting Breeds Exist? Locking Jaws Locking Jaws: II Fighting Breeds Ulster County K9 Training Steve Croft: Pit Bull Entrepreneur Should Pit Bulls be Trained as Police K9s? 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They really have nothing to gain or lose by opposing BSL. MC: It is entirely incorrect, indeed the inverse of reality, to assert that the agencies involved “have nothing to gain or lose by opposing BSL.” Indeed, the organized veterinary profession has for more than 60 years opposed ANY legislation that would curtail breeding dogs, and the largest humane societies have tended to align themselves with the veterinary societies time & again, until smaller organizations employing veterinarians who have been willing to buck the establishment have conducted the demonstration projects & won the lawsuits that permitted the introduction of discount spay/neuter, highvolume spay/neuter, spay/neuter offered through nonprofit clinics, the introduction of neuter/return, and differential dog licensing, which means that sterilized dogs are licensed for a lower fee than those who are intact. Time and again the major humane societies have belatedly climbed aboard the bandwagon once it was already rolling, rather than risk losing market share. Further contributing to the present positions of most of the major humane societies is the reality that over the past 20 years, donors have responded very positively to the transition many have made to a nokill or lowkill modus operandi – exactly as I had editorially urged at the now defunct Animal People newspaper from Volume 1, #1. (I was in fact the keynote speaker at the first No Kill Conference, in 1995.) Unfortunately, it is very difficult for any humane society to remain nokill when 30% or more of the dogs coming through the doors are pit bulls – unless the humane society ceases to be openadmission on the one hand, thereby obliging a public agency to accept all of the hardest cases, and denies the realities pertaining to pit bulls on the other, so as to be able to adopt out more of them. Among the consequences are that of the 42 fatal dog attacks by shelter dogs occurring in the past 33 years, 40 have occurred since 2000. There have been 37 fatalities involving shelter dogs from 2010 to present, involving 29 pit bulls, seven bull mastiffs, two Rottweilers, a Lab who may have been part pit bull, and a husky. Mark: Even Dr. Julie Gilchrist of the CDC has come out with the

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But they are a really gentle breed. Kinda like Bengal Tigers.

Just make sure they are well fed.

The website www.occupymaulstreet.com gives a daily news perusal of the latest national and international dog maulings and deaths. All breeds (most are pitbull-type molosser breeds bred to fight) and also pet and livestock attacks.

There used to be another website called pitbulldeaths.com, but it looks like the owner allowed it to go dormant last year and now it is just nonsense.

Merritt Clifton of www.animals24-7.org has been detailing this subject for 30 years and has an extensive and up-to-date database of dog maulings and deaths broken down by breed, year, age and sex of victims, and state.