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As a Owner/Rescuer of Pit Bulls and their relatives I am constantly pushed and forced to defend my rights to own these animals.  Not one day goes by where I dont get the "why Pits? arent you scared for your kids lives?" question.  The truth is that I am not.  Only because I am a very cautious owner.  I dont allow agressive animals in my home, I am more scared of the dogs that the Police have than I am scared of a Pit Bull.  ANY dog is agressive if you train it to be that way.  German Shephards are used by our Police as attack dogs and yet we arent afraid of them, in fact when seen in public small children are encouraged to pet these dogs.  Dobermans were used and still are used as guard dogs but I know I grew up with one in my Grandparents home in Puertorico.  The stereotpe of Pit Bulls is just point blank racist.  The only reason our society is allowed to treat Pit Bulls the way they do is because they have been linked to gang activity and society stereotypes a gang member as a black or latino person.  This is justified racism and its not right.  When I get a call from someone in East TX looking for Boxer I get "the reason Pitbulls are bad dogs is because of those black people that breed them"!  YES! I actually had a call like that!  This is actually an accepted mentality in the South!  But why?  As a rescuer statistically I get more neglected dogs from white families than black.  I have only to this day received ONE neglected dog from a Latino family!  So what does that say to me?  It shouldnt say anything.  What about judging people by the way they look?  I wear a du rag and play my rap music loudly does that make me a bad Pit Bull owner?  I have tatoos and live in the ghetto.  And so what?  One other rescuer made the remark of "if you dont want people to think youre a thug why do you dress like one?".  Well, I dress the way I like I grew up IN Brooklyn NYC where the style was baggy jeans, du rags and "wife beaters"(I like to call them hubby beaters!).  But that doesnt make me less educated or a thug.  It makes me a human being with my own look.  If you dont like it, too bad!  You dont pay my bills I DO! Just for the sake of education.... Below are a few facts about Pit Bulls if you want more GOOD info about these dogs go to www.pbrc.net

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Ten Comandments of Pit Bull Ownership(as stated in Pit Bulls for Dummies) 1.)Thou shalt not live in the past. Dogs live in the present. 2.)Thou shalt not train your dog to be bad. Dogs repeat actions that bring them rewards. 3.)Thou shalt not Confuse. Be consistant!!! 4.)Thou shalt not speak in tounges. Your Pit Bull takes comands literally. 5.) Thou shalt not hurt your friend. Striking, Hiting Choking ect. hurts an animal emotionally and physically. 6.) Thou shalt not beat a dead horse. Never try to train a sleepy or full dog. 7.) Thou shalt not end on a low note. Begin and end each training session with something easy to do. 8.) Thou shalt not go crazy. Don't repeat a command over and over or shout it louder when the animal doesnt respond.  Would you respond? 9.) Thou shal not use force. Your dog wants to please you, it just takes time to learn how. 10.) Thou shall not loose your patience. Nothing ever goes as smoothly as you expect, be prepared for that!

Interesting Myths about Pit Bulls.... 1.) Pit Bulls DO NOT have locking Jaws!  They are built just like any other dog, they just have more muscle mass. 2.)You shoul roll an intimidated dog on its back... This is actually a good way to get bitten! 3.) Rubbing your dogs nose in his own messdoesnt work.  Its also really nasty if you happen to be the type of person who kisses their dog! 4.)You can tell if a dog is well by checking the wettness of their nose.  Actually, really sick dogs can have a runny nose and well dogs can have a very dry nose. 5.) A dog that scoots their rear on the floor must have worms... This not necessarily true, the dog MAY have tapeworms, however this is actully a more common sign of impacted anal glands.

Below is some cool Information given to me by a Buddy on My Space.... PUPPY LOVE RESCUE, but the Author is Unknown.  This alone is enough to ban BSL!!!

1.) Since 1998, the breed most involved in fatal attacks has been the Rottweiler, not the pit bull. 2.) Although there are no accurate or even near accurate census records for dogs in the U.S., in some populations pit bulls are estimated to comprise some 30-40% of the dog population, making it by FAR the most popular breed. Considering that there are an estimated 53,000,000 dogs in the U.S., and assuming that pit bulls make up 20% of that population, there would be approximately 10,600,000 pit bulls in our society. In 1998, five pit bulls were involved in 2 fatal attacks. That is roughly ONE dog out of 2,120,000 - or .00004716 percent of the pit bull Population. 3.) Over the 32-year period from 1965-2001, pit bulls have been blamed for an average of 2.48 human fatalities per year. 4.) About 40 people (children) per year die by drowning in 5-gallon water pails. A person, during their lifetime, is 16 times more likely to drown in a 5-gallon water pail than to be killed by a pit bull. 5.) Approximately 50 children in the US are killed every year by their cribs - 25 times the number of children and adults killed by pit bulls. 6.) Approximately 150 people are killed every year by falling coconuts. Therefore, you are more than 60 TIMES MORE LIKELY to be killed by a PALM TREE than a pit bull. 7.) Each year, 350 people drown in their bathtubs. You are 151 times more likely to be killed by your bathtub than you are by a pit bull. 8.) Every year, more than 2,000 children in the U.S. are killed by their parents or guardians either through abuse or neglect. A child is more than 800 times more likely to be killed by their caretaker than by a pit bull. 9.) It is estimated that 5,000,000 dogs per year are killed in shelters. Since in many places pit bulls make up 30-50% of the shelter population, and are less likely to be considered for placement than any other breed, guessing that 25% of those dogs killed are pit bulls is a very conservative estimate. Therefore, it can be assumed that roughly 1,250,000 pit bulls are killed per year. Therefore - it is at least a HALF MILLION TIMES MORE LIKELY that a pit bull will be killed by a HUMAN than the other way around. 10.) It can be estimated that for every pit bull who kills, there are 10.5 MILLION that DON'T. This country wants to ban/destroy 10.5 million innocent dogs for the actions of 0.0000002% of its category? Does that seem fair to you

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