Pawsitive Energy The Pit Bull Awareness Campaign

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Carter Pibble-Price

Photos from "Liberty & Justice For All"
Pit Bull Awareness Day ~ Here!

Let's Separate
the Reality from the Hysteria

"Given the choice between enforcing a ban on thousands of dogs because of one fatal attack versus trying to stem the far greater number of children killed by abusive adults, where would you focus your limited resources?"

Reality: On June 9, 2008, Minister of Agriculture,
Nature and Food Quality for The Netherlands, Gerda Verburg,
announced the ban on Pitbulls in that country will be cancelled
before the end of the year.

The reason for this was that
there was no reduction of biting incidents
since Pit Bulls were banned.

The ban was installed in 1993 after three incidents where
children were killed.

Liberty and Poppa

New laws will require
a behavior test for any large
dog who shows signs of aggression
and will no longer focus
on breed or appearance.

Read "Dog Attacks You Never Hear About"

Sweet Nottie

Other countries are following suit.

snips is happy to join the many other wonderful groups who are
working to raise public awareness of the
horrible situation currently facing our Pit Bull Terriers.

Our own Pit Bulls will be acting as breed ambassadors to
show how the breed has been horribly misrepresented.

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Meet Carter Price

Carter Upside Down in His Kennel

I've raised this little guy from a five week old puppy.
He's not "pure Pit," whatever that might
mean, but he's "Pit enough" that if any
breed specific legislation were to be
enacted in our county or state, it would be
his death sentence
~ except we would move to one of the states with
laws against BSL before
we'd ever let anything happen to him or
any of the other Bully guys who live here.

Carter at Day Camp Carter and Al

Many states have banned
breed specific legislation.
These states have laws which
are directed at the cruel humans
who abuse and turn wonderful dogs of
any breed into dangerous dogs.

And their laws work.

Carter is not "a ticking time bomb." He's a funny, sweet,
so-full-of-himself-larger-than-life little character, and I adore him. He charms everybody he meets.

The typical "bully personality" is like that.

The dogs you read about (who often aren't really even Pit Bulls, but that's another piece of the ridiculous, unbelievable package of misinformation put together by those with their own agendas) aren't dogs like Carter. They're not cherished family companions.

And, believe it or not, those dogs are the minority.

Most Pit Bulls Are Well Trained, Happy, Loving Family Companions ~
Just Like Carter.

When you really look into the truth about Pit Bulls, the fact is that they score higher on behavior tests than Golden Retrievers. There are more Pit Bulls (the term represents a type rather than a breed, and it includes the American Staffordshire Terrier, the Staffordshire Bull Terrier, and the American Pit Bull Terrier) than most other breeds of dogs, so their statistical bite ratio when compared to other dogs (even when it includes the Mastiffs, Labs, Greyhounds, and all the other breeds and mixes of dogs who are often misidentified as "Pit Bulls") is incredibly low.

When these dogs are actually involved in an attack, don't let the "he was a family pet" stories fool you. That's almost always not the case - unless you consider a dog who is chained, starved and mistreated as a "family pet." That "family pet" stuff is pretty much just a cruel "owner" covering his behind. "We never had any idea this would happen" is legitimate only if you believe three or four previous bites and numerous warnings wouldn't give these "responsible owners" any inkling that their "family pet" might be aggressive. This is often the story behind the story, and it never gets reported.

Bites from the family Lab rarely even make the paper - or when they do, like the case of the woman in Great Britain whose Labrador Retriever tore off part of her face, the attack winds up being attributed to a Pit Bull.

The other story behind the story is that even the few deaths that are truly caused by Pit Bulls are in incredibly bizarre circumstances. An infant who was killed by Pit Bulls was actually thrown over a fence by her mother into the junkyard these dogs were trained to guard. A woman who was killed by a Pit Bull was actually tied up by her boyfriend, who then made the dog attack her. He was later convicted of her murder.

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Hypnotic

The Hysteria

These truths don't suit the agenda of those
who pretend to have our best interests at heart
when they propose to ban these wonderful dogs.

They see what they think is a "quick fix"
that could help keep them in office.
They don't care about the truth.

If they did, they would be working to protect us
from the real problem
- the people on the other ends of those leashes.

But that's not not nearly as easy...

" What's the big deal about Pit Bulls? I bite MUCH harder!"

The snips Pits

Carter Nottie

Liberty and Poppa Justice

Poppa (Chico) Tyrone Pibble Yates (I)
"Our Pit Bull Mom Ate Your Hockey Mom for Breakfast!"

Don't Let Dogs Like Carter, Mr Jones,
Hypnotic, Liberty & Justice, Poppa, & Tyrone Pibble Yates (I)
be Killed to Satisfy Misinformed and Uncaring
Elected Officials at Any Level of Government.

If these guys have to go away,
Pawsitive Energy goes with them.