Note: I know It's long, but hear me out, and then look at the horrific pictures of what can happen when you let a pitbull in your home.
Today, while listening the "The Dogs Who Found Me" on CD in my car, the writer said something i felt disgust for. He said that PETA was working on banning pitbulls throughout the country. I couldn't believe it.
I checked their website, and it was true, except it was sprinkled with such words that hide the fact, like "granfather clause." Basically, they want to have all pitbulls spayed/neutered, not extinct (okay, I'm not stupid. Spaying/neutering a dog=no babies=no grandbabies=extinction. Were not dumb PETA).
As i read this, I felt my blood boil, and i wanted to kick something. Instead, I sent a reply on their forum about this topic (http://www.peta.org/Forums/topic.asp?whichpage=4&TOPIC_ID=6413𑉥). Here's what I said:
"I must say I got really fired up about this topic. I heard on a book I'm reading "the dogs who found me," that PETA is trying to ban pitbulls. I wasn't sure if it was true, and now that I do, I feel angry.
I think PETA is going for this more for the political face than for the actual help it might do, because a ban or lawful spaying/nutering of all pitbulls will do absolutely nothing to solve the problem, because there are so many obvious flaws that it takes only those conserned about reputation to ignore it.
Banning or making all pitbulls get fixed will do nothing. You really think the people involved in dog fighting will all of a sudden take their dog to the clinic? They will still breed, but their breed will worsen, because all they'll see is the violent fighting world, and not that of a kinder world. Owners will still throw their dogs out after it is deemed worthless, and those dogs will still wander the streets and eventually bite or even kill someone. And since there's no real way to find a dog's previous owner if it is found on the street, such owners will never get caught.
Even if all the pitbulls are fixed, that means none will be able to mate (which leads to extinction--dur), dog fighters don't need pitbulls. Pitbulls are the more likely candidate because they are the strongest dog and very high energy, but its a certainty that people who are in the dog fighting circle will find another breed to use. What will stop them from doing this? a pitbull is just a strong dog, but there are many strong dogs out there they can use. What would PETA do when that happens? work to ban breeding that dog? then they will just go to another.
The reason such people keep doing this is not because of the dog--its because they rarely ever get sentenced for it. Police rely on finding something like illegal drugs to press charges. But if such thigs arent found, most that these people will get is a hard slap on the wrist. Even if you were to go to their property, see the ring that th dog fights in, the tools used to train them, and even find dead pitbulls in a pile, it most likely wouldn't be enough.
I feel anger that all the system has attempted is such dumb things that will not work, not even thinking that maybe they should provide harsher punishments for animal abuse. especially dog abuse. Just turn on the TV to Animal Planet's animal rescue shows, and you'll see that most abusers may get a few days in jail and a couple thousand dollar fine.
But instead of focusing on that, PETA is punishing the dogs?"
The reason I say PETA is racist is because they are doing exactly what racism is described as: putting a group (or breed, in this case) in one category and placing a sweeping judgement upon all of them.
How is it that it's wrong for a person to do this to a Black, White, Asian, Etc; but understandable if one does it upon a dog or other animal?
What's even worse is that the pitbull is actually not the most agressive breed--It was the smaller dogs, like the Dashchund and Chihuahua (http://www.kpho.com/family/16819735/detail.html).
Out of my own experience, Chihuahua's are much more agressive than any pitbulls I've encountered. In fact, my first dog Reece has a bit of pitbull in her, yet with my sister's roommate's daughter, she is the sweetest dog around. My sister's two other pitbull dogs are the same.
To me, pitbulls and such larger dogs are actually the perfect family pet. If trained right (which isn't that hard, honestly), they will protect the household, will stay by your side their entire life, and never harm a soul around them. Besides that, if anyone were to advance towards your family or your kids, any attacker would think twice if there was a pitbull around.
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I'm really surprised to hear that. peta normally is all about all kind of animals. i must admit, pitbulls scare me, but they definately have a place in this world