We had a guest speaker come in to school, she is a lawyer with the ASPCA and a huge Pit fan. She would tell us all kinds of stories, but one that stuck out the most was -

she had two print-outs of probably 25 or so different breeds, and only ONE picture on each was an actual Pit Bull. She asked the class to try to identify the pit bull on the first slide. Every single one of us got it wrong. She asked us to identify the Pit Bull on the second slide. All but one student got it wrong.

She says she uses that when she gives presentations to police and other public forums and really pushes the whole BSL is wrong deal and a lot of times it's misidentification. When she shows it to police, how many times out of hundreds do you think they identified it correctly? That's right -- none.

So it's amazing to me that pittys have such a bad rap... but yet... no one can actually IDENTIFY one correctly in the first place!!!


She also told me another story about how DNA testing saved this dog's life. A man's dog was going to be PTS for no reason other than he RESEMBLED a pit bull (I say resembled, because the owner fought that he was indeed not a pit bull). Authorities of course said he was one and he was scheduled to be PTS. The owner decided to get DNA testing to confirm that his dog was not a pit, and the results came back, and he wasn't. The dog was released back into his custody and he still lives happy today


Another statistic, if I may... She also presented us with statistics on dog fighting going back probably till the 1920's or so. As far back as records go in the US, anyway. Of every single dog mauling ever, no death has ever occurred from a neutered pit bull male, translating to: responsible dog owners who spay and neuter their pets (and pits, of course), are MUCH less likely to become aggressive and "maul".


I just think, if more people were educated about what a pit actually LOOKS like first instead of lumping all the bully breeds together, and of course SPAY AND NEUTER, which to me is OBVIOUS, that's a step in the right direction...