Confessions of Pit Bull Victims.

A new site has been added to the world wide web that I feel addresses a serious need. It allows Pit Bull Victims and their Families a safe haven to share their grief, stories and help each other through the tragic times these vicious attacks cause for so many. It will I am sure beocome a great source of help and comfort for so many. Be sure to support it and its founders to help address the serious issues we face regarding pit bulls and their irresponsible owners.

Confessions of Pit Bull Victims.

In the story linked below you will find out how, what companies to use and where you can insure a pit bull or other dangerous type dog. While the pro pit groups out there keep claiming that insurance requirements would cost dog owners more. The truth is that it normally would cost home owners or renters nothing extra to insure their pet through several companies. These compainies include state farm, farmers and firemans.

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Petitions are a great way to get lawmakers attention and to help get action taken. We now have our first petition up!

Pit Bull & Dangerous Dog Victims Demand Justice and Protection.

http://t.co/8wDlVER

Pit Bull & Dangerous Dog Victims Demand Justice and Protection.

The serious and growing problem of pit bull and dangerous dog attacks that cause serious injury, dismemberment, disabling, permanent disfigurement and…read more on the links above. We have to put a stop to the injuries and deaths caused in these attacks. Please help and sign the petition by using the links above.

Also I have provided a link to help people with how to get signatures on a petition.

http://www.change.org/info/how-to-collect-petition-signatures

Another poll and a pit owner trying to get charges brought against a man who shot a pit in self defense.

Should man be charged for shooting pit bull in self defense?
yes 220 20%
no 898 80%
The poll results are at
http://cf.clickondetroit.com/det/sh/con_surveycontest_display/displaySurveyResults.cfm?contentid=29033529&sitekey=DET&questionum=1&answer1=2

the article is at
Woman Wants Charges Against Man Who Shot Dog
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/29033382/detail.html

The strange thing about this is that the woman is not the dogs owner, she is just a pit owner in the neighborhood. Obviously afraid her dogs will be shot. All I can say is if she keeps her dogs under proper control and does not allow them around other people who do not want to be around them then she has nothing to worry about unlike all her neighbors who have to worry about their safety as long as she lives in the area and owns dangerous dogs. It seems pit owners are getting more and more militant in that now they do not even want any of us to have the right to defend ourselves, our family, our pets or our property from them or their dangerous choices.

In what is one of the two most shocking incidents I have yet heard about involving Pit Bulls and their Owners the owners of the Pit Bull Mix that attacked Ayen Chol in St Albans, northwest Melbourne watched the attack and never tried to stop their dog other than calling it verbally. This is even worse than when James Lech tried to outright lie and blame a small girl for his dogs unprovoked attack on the girl. It seems that more and more in my daily research I run across pit owners trying to lie to protect these inherently dangerous and unpredictable creatures. These animals have no business being allowed in our cities and neighborhoods and certainly not anywhere near our children.

The link to the Melbourne incident is;

http://www.news.com.au/national/pitbull-owners-stood-back-and-watched-it-attack-ayen-chol-claim-family/story-e6frfkvr-1226117867049

The link to the story and the video proving James Lech’s lie is;

http://pitbulldangers.com/video/africa-s-cesar-milan-s-rot-att

You can veiw the video f the attack by James Lech’s so called rehabilitated therapy dog below, be warned however it does show the attack as well as the period leading up to it.

Six Hours Long Surgery Reattached Child’s Face after Pit bull Attack | French Tribune.

The Pit Bull Dangers problems are worldwide and getting worse every year. So many children hurt, maimed or killed. These attacks can be and must be prevented!

Pit Bull Dangers Part 5

Myths and Misinformation Part 2 of 2

Most people can find a ton of information online easily about Pit Bulls and Dangerous Dogs. The problem is the vast majority of this information is not cited, sourced or accurate. Even when it is sourced most sources are just other sites spreading the same opinions, rumors, or misinformation. This leads many well meaning people to repeat these statements as if they are fact when in truth they are not.

Myth: It is always the owner never the dog

Truth: While the owner can make a difference no amount of training, nurture or socializing an animal can change its nature, genetic heritage or instinctual behavior. Pointers will point, retrievers will retrieve, fighting dogs will fight, and this is true without training or even after being trained not to. Humans can choose to act upon instinct or not act upon it; dogs do not have that choice. Many type dogs are owned by the same type people as pit bulls, are abused like pit bulls, and are trained to fight like pit bulls. Many of these type dogs out number pit bulls yet pit bulls maim, maul and kill more people than all other dogs combined. This proves that it is not just the owner or treatment of the animal that makes them so dangerous.

Myth: BSL and Laws do not work

Truth: If laws do not work then why do we have them? Because they do work, while some may not obey the law most people do. Most of those people who do not will eventually wind up in court or in jail as it right. Thus laws do work and are needed in many areas especially in protecting human life from dangerous animals and their irresponsible owners.

Pit Bull Dangers Part 4

Myths and Misinformation Part 1 of 2

Most people can find a ton of information online easily about Pit Bulls and Dangerous Dogs. The problem is the vast majority of this information is not cited, sourced or accurate. Even when it is sourced most sources are just other sites spreading the same opinions, rumors, or misinformation. This leads many well meaning people to repeat these statements as if they are fact when in truth they are not.

Myth: Temperament testing by the ATTS proves pits are less dangerous, less aggressive etc.

Truth: The temperament test was developed by Alfons Ertelt in 1977. Mr Ertelt was not an animal behaviorist, he worked in the print industry but his passion was dogs and he was involved in schutzhund. (schutzhund is a dog sport that mirrors the training of police dog work and it is dominated by german shepherds) The ATTS test was initially intended to test working dogs for jobs such as police work. When looking at its scoring system you realize that it rewards aggressive dogs and penalizes timid or calm dogs meaning it in no way tests for the suitability of these dogs to be around people or be pets at all.

Myth: Pit Bulls have been called the Nanny Dog

Truth:  This myth was started by statements made by two people. Mrs. Lilian Rant, President, Staffordshire Bull Terrier Club of America, magazine editor said they are referred to as a nursemaid dog in an interview published in the New York Times in 1971. Second in 1987 Toronto Star article where Breeder Kathy Thomas, president of the Staffordshire Bull Terrier Association said “In England, our Staffies were called the nanny-dog”. No sources or evidence just two heavily vested and bias people’s statements started this whole myth.

Dr. Jack Tillerson in his book My Dog Doesn’t Bite, by way of multiple sources and references, lists the dogs most likely to attack, maim, and kill. Readers will learn the myths and excuses used by owners of dangerous breeds in an effort to deflect criticism. There is also a discussion of little known diseases that humans, especially children, can contract from dogs. These diseases are found in unexpected places and can cause severe illness, including blindness and death.

Amazon.com: My Dog Doesn’t Bite: The Parents’ Guide to Dangerous Dogs eBook: Jack Tillerson: Kindle Store.