I created this website to help inform people
about the pit bull breed and other dog - related issues.
Good Pit Bulls is a simple website to help educate those who want to know more
about the Pit Bull breed.
Doing a research paper and wanted to know more
about the pit bull breed and see what were the myths about them.
A second study, published in the March 27, 2014 edition of the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science and summarized in the September 10, 2014 edition of Science Daily, found that 41 % of shelter workers are willing to lie
about pit bull breed identification to try to rehome more pit bulls.
The team teaches children and everyone they meet that just because you are different, you are still special in your own «Wooftastic» way.Hudson the Railroad Puppy brings smiles to everyone he meets and is changing hearts and minds
about the pit bull breed one at a time.
Not exact matches
Piper even inspired Julie to start a Facebook page called Piper's
Pit Bull Place that she uses to provide resources and information
about the controversial and often misunderstood
breed.
About 10 communities in Utah had
breed restrictions, including banning
pit bull terriers within city limits.
The only
Pit Bull rescue in the Tulsa area, Amoré is dedicated to changing the conversation
about Pit Bulls, educating the community
about the
breed and finding homes for their rescued dogs.
And a distinction that will shift to another
breed if we ban
Pit Bulls but do not bring
about an end to the scourge of dog fighting.
Because there are many
Pit Bull myths
about breed aggression, it only stands that there's one
about guarding.
My buddy said that a Cocker Spaniel would bite you quicker than a
Pit Bull or Rottweiler would, i find that very... [Read more...]
about Are Cocker Spaniels known to be a dog
breed that bites?
There's been some recent debate
about the inherent natures of
pit bulls in particular, but again, there's no evidence to show that
pit bulls are more likely to cause harm to humans than any other
breed.
Addyson Rice provided WTVR with her thoughts
about the timing, «I feel like everything happens for a reason and just losing our other pet and loving the
pit bull breed as much as we do, something was meant to happen for a certain reason.»
While the primary focus of the American
Pit Bull Registry (APBR) is to register pure
bred Pit Bulls, we are a comprehensive resource for the
Pit Bull dog
breed, owners, rescues, shelters and those wishing to learn more
about the American
Pit Bull Terrier dog
breed and its unique history.
Since adult
pit bulls can take longer to place than other
breeds, we look for foster homes that are patient, stable and realistic
about what they're getting into.
Did you just bring home a new American
Pit Bull Terrier puppy and want to learn more
about the
breed?
Part of our advocacy efforts includes educating the public on various aspects of living with dogs, with or without disabilities, to encourage adoption, especially of these ostracized
breeds that are in great numbers in shelters everywhere due to overpopulation and the bans on
pit bulls (read more
about Breed - Specific Legislation and other BS discrimination).
And while it may be helpful to describe other
breeds when talking
about some specific
breed, it's impossible to describe the
Pit Bull without talking
about several other
breeds first.
«We hope that through education, mentoring, and outreach, we can help
pit bull owners become better ambassadors for our
breed and eventually reduce some of the misunderstandings
about pit bulls and the people who love them.»
Reality also is that cities without effective
breed - specific legislation to curtail
pit bull breeding are continuing to impound more than a million
pit bulls per year, and kill
about 85 % of them, as they have throughout the first fifteen years of the 21st century.
This is
about a quarter of the rate of sterilization of all other dog
breeds combined, and is fairly obviously the leading reason why the numbers of
pit bull born each year and the numbers surrendered to shelters or impounded are approximately equal, amounting to
about a third of the total
pit bull population.
«Despite these limitations and concerns (
about identifying the exact «
breed» of
pit bull type dog responsible for a killing), the data indicate that Rottweilers and
pit bull - type dogs accounted for 67 % of human DBRF in the United States between 1997 and 1998.
GRAEME SMITH, veterinarian My views
about associating a
breed with dangerous behaviours were challenged over time as I saw the impact of
Pit Bull attacks.
Learn
about the true
breed and personality of the American
Pit bull terrier and Staffordshire terrier.
In the sections above we have tried to cover all the basic information
about the Amerrican
Pit Bull Terrier (APBT) dog
breed.
While in many shelters
Pit Bulls are over represented in comparison to other pure
breeds this is not due to an over population issue but more due to bad internal adoption policies within many humane organizations and of a lack of understanding
about the
breed resulting in an unnatural deflatation in demand.
Hart said
pit bulls are responsible for
about 60 percent of dog attack fatalities each year, which is «way out of proportion» compared with other
breeds.
Overpopulation of the
breed remains one of the chief concerns
about pit bulls, especially in already crowded urban areas.
A note
about Pit Bull types (American Staffordshire Terrier, Staffordshire
Bull Terrier,
Pit mixes)-- We do not recommend these
breeds for service dog training for several reasons: 1).
The adoption failure rate for
pit bulls 1 year or older is
about 50 % per year —
about 10 times higher than the failure rate for all other
breed types combined.
The San Bernardino County ordinance said
pit bull breeds account for
about 20 percent of the dogs at animal shelters and are put down more often than any other
breed.
DAVID E. BLOCKER, BS, MD, Dog Bite Rates and Biting Dog
Breeds in Texas, 1995 - 1997 Bite Rates by
Breed page 23 One out of every 40
Pit Bulls (2.5 %) and
about one out of 75 Chow Chows (1.4 %) generated a reported human bite each year (Table 29; Figure 7).
Landlords and private owners will always have the right to discriminate, but if more people work to advocate and educate on the danger of BSL and the truths
about pit bulls and other bully
breeds, more dogs can be saved.
When
Pit bulls were first
bred, they were
about 30 - 40 pounds.
For today's
breed spotlight, we're talking
about Pit Bulls.
Q: Why would a news source run a story
about a
pit bull attack when the
breed of dog involved wasn't even a
pit bull?
When we are talking
about the best dog food to build muscle, we can't ignore Muscle Bully — the muscle builder for some strong
breeds like bullies,
pit bulls, or the other
bull breeds.
Ginny Bazelak of Chepachet, R.I., president of the American
Pit Bull Terrier Club of New England, feels the same way
about the dogs that she has
bred.
Television has people brainwashed
about these dogs... little house dogs attack an bite people everyday but the American
Pit Bull Terrier always makes headlines and is demonized... I am against dog fighting to the fullest I hate it with a passion pit bulls are not fighting dogs if you did research the Staffordshire Terrier are the original dogs bred to fight did ya know that??? Makes me sick when people stereotype an 9 times out of 10 they never even owned the b
Pit Bull Terrier always makes headlines and is demonized... I am against dog fighting to the fullest I hate it with a passion
pit bulls are not fighting dogs if you did research the Staffordshire Terrier are the original dogs bred to fight did ya know that??? Makes me sick when people stereotype an 9 times out of 10 they never even owned the b
pit bulls are not fighting dogs if you did research the Staffordshire Terrier are the original dogs
bred to fight did ya know that??? Makes me sick when people stereotype an 9 times out of 10 they never even owned the
bred
This writer talks
about her son's
Pit Bulls and how she ended up falling in love with a
breed that she had always been told was «dangerous.»
(Read more
about performance dog
breeding) In my lifetime I
bred well over 250
pit bulls.
Pit bulls breeders have - to this day - been notoriously secretive
about how they
breed their best dogs.
One of the most common misconceptions
about the American Bully is that it is simply a type of
pit bull, but the truth is these are two distinct
breeds.
Critics of
breed - specific legislation argue that these laws are not only discriminatory, penalizing all
pit bulls regardless of their behavior, but also ineffective in preventing dog bite fatalities and injuries; further, such laws raise concerns
about due process rights.
Pit bull complaints make up
about 20 % of the calls animal control there responds too... even though most of the cases end up being mistaken
breed ID.
Lockwood, who has studied wolves in the wild and canine attacks on humans and animals for 15 years, said the recent publicity
about dog attacks has put a spotlight on the
pit bull, a generic term for several
breeds developed in England as fighting animals.
If you're interested in making a pittie part of your family, educate yourself
about breed myths and check out the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals» tips for adopting a
pit bull.
We seek to change the unfairly negative public opinion surrounding
pit bulls to help lower euthanasia rates within the
breed, while providing education
about the complex needs of veterans and first responders and delivering the support they require.
We've talked before
about how BSL (
breed specific legislation) only perpetuates perceptions of
pit bulls, American bulldogs or other targeted dogs as being dangerous.
Douglas Sonders doesn't like to hear people use the term «bully
breed» when they speak
about pit bulls or other
breeds such as Rottweilers and boxers.