Sentences with phrase «bull breed bias»

Some negative opinions may be due to the Pit Bull breed bias as well as the fact that Pit Bulls are often viewed as muscle - heavy aggressive dogs.

Not exact matches

October is Pit Bull Awareness month — here are six things you can do to fight Pit Bull bias and breed specific legislation.

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Pit bulls are at risk of staying longer in shelters because of breed bias.

The authors note that the prevalence of «pit bull - type dogs» in «the... number of cases that resulted in very severe injuries or fatalities» may be accounted for in large part because of «the popularity of the breed in the victim's community, reporting biases and the dog's treatment by its owner (e.g., use as fighting dogs — note 21).»

With such a bias against pit bulls and select bully breeds in general, how is the pit bull affected?

Many pit bull and bully breed haters are colored by this media reporting bias.

The only way we can subvert this bias against pit bulls is to educate and reveal how loving and compassionate this breed can be.

«Opponents of BSL believe that such laws are a demeaning overreaction perpetuated by media bias and claim that dog bite statistics (showing pit bulls are responsible for the majority of fatal dog attacks) are unreliable sources of information regarding the «viciousness» of a breed.

As the National Pit Bull Awareness Campaign puts it, «Knowledge is power, and with education and advocacy, the truth will save lives in terms of negating the fear and bias generated by the media, circumvent knee - jerk reactions such as breed bans, and the truth will result in fewer pit bulls ending up in animal shelters.»

There is as much, if not more, bias against Jindos as Pit Bulls in most shelters — especially the CA county shelters — where Jindos and several other breeds (Pit Bulls, Akitas, GSDs and more) can not be adopted by the public or a rescue until the county conducts a temperament test.

Of those incidents for which the researchers could find no breed attributions (n = 89), Karen Delise of the National Canine Research Council  later located breed attributions in 40; and 37 of these cases involved dogs identified as other than Rottweiler and pit bull, a result that confirmed the researchers concerns regarding «differential ascertainment» of incidents because of breed bias.