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[ella]

I never did find the pit. what number is it. I'm just not made out for games.
I usually cheat. It's been a long time since I was in school and had to take a test.

Ella

[CAB]

I'm too tired to take a test right now. It's almost .

[mihalik1413]

Try the breed test. Can you find the pit bull ???

http://www.pitbullso...ll/findpit.html

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Thats a great line up of dogs, although I've taken it before and knew the answer, I wonder how many people making these laws could actually pick out the Pit.

Larry

[ChristineNHarley]

I got it on the 5th try.... although I'm no expert, but some of those dogs don't seem representative of their breed... am I the only one who thinks that?? Daisy??? But yes, I do agree with the whole point that you really just DON'T know!! I mean look at the pic of the lab on there crop it's ears.... very easy to mistake. The whole breed ban thing is just ridiculous!

[CAB]

I can honestly say I scored poorly, just like the SAT.

Edited by CAB, 27 May 2005 - 07:38 PM.

[mihalik1413]

Another Article link on Denver's war on Pit Bulls

[Jennymay]

I'm slow on responding to this one.
I picked the pit, on the second one. (been around a few of them in my lifetime, and a FEW times has NOT been a good situation for me or my boy, BJ, he got attacked by a couple, twice)
BUT...alot of these dogs are close cousins to the pit, or VERY close in resemblace, due to them going back to their origins, and used for fighting way back in the day, and were breed for certain characteristics. Square jaw, low stature, stocky, strong, and usually the shorter snub snout.
My friend just got a pup, which is part Argentine Dogo. They are banned in England completely. Same story, have a bad rep from idiots using them as fighting dogs, when they were originally breed to be strong domestic family dogs, with loyalty to their masters and children. Unfortunately, the strength of these animals and especially their jaws, have brought forth a HORRIBLE group of people with no compassion towards animals to use them for their own personal gain of money by having these animals massacre their own, and in the process, making killing machines out of them. On TOP of that, just like ANY breed, you start in-breeding them enough, and the dog and their blood line are going to lose their marbles, which is happening all over the place with these breeds, and THAT'S where the problem lies.
IRRESPONSIBLE BREEDING. It's killing these dogs, by making them in-bred with too close of kin, and it DOES have an affect on brain mentality in dogs, JUST like it does with humans.
Humans aren't God....They should stop trying to be when breeding these animals.

[mihalik1413]

 
IRRESPONSIBLE BREEDING.  It's killing these dogs, by making them in-bred with too close of kin, and it DOES have an affect on brain mentality in dogs, JUST like it does with humans. 

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A little side note: It isn't just the fighting dogs that are being mis-bred. There are many breeds that are not the same as they use to be.

Larry

Edited by mihalik1413, 23 July 2005 - 12:52 PM.

[KellyB]

Sam was half pit. We had him for 13 years, he loved our kids to death we couldn't raise angry voices without Sam getting up and stareing us down as to say who do you think you are raising your voice at my kids.

[LStevens]

My Betty is supposed to be part Lab. The more I get to know her, and in looking at the shape of her head, I wonder about her lineage. My husband and I both think there's some Pit in her. She is the dearest, most wonderful dog. I would hate to think about facing this type of legislation in our own backyard. I signed the petition long ago, for what it's worth. It seems our freedoms are constantly diminishing in this country. Think about it. "Land of the Free." Oh, really? We are regulated in everything we do. It's a sad day . . .


Linda

[KellyB]

Thirteen years ago when Kori and I went to the local SPCA in SC they listed Sam as Boxer/Bull Dog. I had recently finished 1year 1 semester of Veterinary Technician training and it just didn't fly with me. I asked them at the front desk "Are you sure boxer/bull dog?" Well the first time we took him to the vet I told him what the SPCA said he was. He looked at Sam and said "What part of you is Bull Dog?". Kori had a friend at work that raised pitts and we took Sam to see him. He looked at his jaws and said they were the same jaws of a pitt. Wether he was or wasn't for sure doesn't matter he was the BEST Dog.

Kelly

[mihalik1413]

Research on Pit Bull Dangers

By The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Wednesday, July 20, 2005; 5:34 PM

Link to the article

-- Just how dangerous are pit bulls?

The American Temperament Testing Society evaluated 122 dog breeds and found that the American Staffordshire Terrier, a type of pit bull banned in Denver, passed 83.3 percent of the time, just behind the golden retriever (83.6 percent).


The American Canine Foundation calculated rates of human dog-bite fatalities by breed and found that pit bulls bite at a lower rate than many other dogs. The Doberman pinscher was found to bite 10 times as often as a pit bull.

Still, pit bulls and Rottweilers have caused the most deaths, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Veterinary Medical Association and the Humane Society of the United States, which examined 20 years of dog-bite data.

That same study concluded fatal attacks "represent a small proportion of dog bite injuries to humans, and therefore, should not be the primary factor driving public policy concerning dangerous dogs."

Julie Gilchrist, a CDC doctor who researches dog bites, said many factors go into biting risk, including the health of the dog and how the animal was raised.

[mihalik1413]

July 19, 2005

Pit bull critics barking up wrong tree

Link to the article

Crouched on her deck, her arms overflowing with dog, Amy Lyon accepts kisses from Fatty and Jake, two round sausages encased in fur.

The 39-year-old Meridian-Kessler businesswoman calls them "Velcro dogs."

"All they want to do is be with you," she said, laughing, as they nudged close. "Whatever we're doing, they're close; they are so totally loving and loyal."

Fatty, 2, and Jake, 7, are pit bulls -- you know, those dogs with the rep as the Caligula of the canine world.

Lyon wants the world to know it's not so. She is showing off her rescued pit bulls Monday in an effort to stamp out the snarling stigma -- and to head off an indictment of her favorite breed.

Anytime an incident takes place involving menacing dogs, or worse, pit bulls get the rap, she said.

A pit bull mix was involved in this weekend's killing of eight birds at the Indianapolis Zoo. Five other dogs also took part. Police killed four mixed-breed dogs, three males and a female, and one dog got away. The male pit bull mix was captured.

Lyon was distressed, but not surprised, at media reports that focused on the pit bull. That's a theme she has observed -- a genuine bias, she said.

"I've had (media) people tell me that they listen to the police scanner, and when they hear the word 'pit bull,' they send a camera out. They don't send a crew when it's a Golden retriever, or a beagle or a Lab. It's very, very discriminatory."

Marion County experiences about 6,000 dog bite incidents a year, but nobody keeps records on the breeds involved.

Lyon does pit bull rescue. Fatty, for example, was left at the 500 race this spring. He's now featured on www.pbrc.net in an effort to find him a good home. Lyon and a few other pit bull fans work with Indianapolis Animal Care & Control and the Humane Society of Indianapolis to save pit bulls from a formidable tag team: bad press and irresponsible pet owners.

Jeff Bennett, head of Animal Care & Control, said the weekend attack had nothing to do with a type of breed.

The problem is not pooches, but people, he said. "At some point there was a human being involved with those dogs' lives. Those dogs were abandoned, let out of a yard or dumped. It is the human being we need to reach to stop this."

Pit bulls are a high-risk dog for mistreatment and dumping -- about one out of three dogs at Animal Care & Control is a pit bull, Bennett said. The Indianapolis Humane Society, which adopts out pit bulls, also gets "lots and lots of pits," Executive Director Martha Boden said.

Why?

Most of us know that pit bulls are the dog associated with a macho image. They fall prey to owners who want them for all the wrong reasons, including illegal dog fighting.

Lyon said she hears the same story over and over. Some "18-year-old punk" acquires a pit bull. Then, for whatever reasons, he has to move and can no longer keep the dog. The dog is set loose or left behind.

That's the problem -- not pit bulls.

Ruth Holladay's column appears Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. You can reach her at (317) 444-6405 or via e-mail at ruth.holladay@indystar.com

[Jennymay]

I read somewhere a few years back, that one of the most COMMON dogs to bite, especially OWNER attacks, was the poodle. I can't remember what KIND of poodle, but a poodle none the less, above and beyond all other breeds of dogs.
Anyhooo.........

[mihalik1413]

I read somewhere a few years back, that one of the most COMMON dogs to bite, especially OWNER attacks, was the poodle.  I can't remember what KIND of poodle, but a poodle none the less, above and beyond all other breeds of dogs.
Anyhooo.........

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Jenny,
I've heard it's the Golden Retriever believe it or not (I have heard this before I read this article as well). Did you read this article I posted just a couple up? Here is the most important sentence in it.

Research on Pit Bull Dangers

Link to the article


The American Temperament Testing Society evaluated 122 dog breeds and found that the American Staffordshire Terrier, a type of pit bull banned in Denver, passed 83.3 percent of the time, just behind the golden retriever (83.6 percent).

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