Here's MORE for you
Posted By: CindyOne on 2009-01-11
In Reply to: Thanks, but I love my life - Questions
You're right, all you have to do to see bad Pit Bull news is turn on the TV, because like I said before all they report is crap. I don't ever see any reports on OTHER dogs biting although they definitely DO! And I hardly see any GOOD reports.
Speaking of which, since you have so much time on your hands, why don't you look up the good things Pit Bulls have done instead of staying glued to the idiot box. Here I'll get you started:
From http://www.pitbulllovers.com/pit-bulls-ten-things-you-should-know.html as well as http://www.pitbullsontheweb.com/petbull/pospress.php.
1. Pit Bulls score an 83.4% passing rate with the American Temperament Test Society. That's better than the popular Border Collie (a breed who scores 79.6%). View the ATTS stats at http://www.atts.org/stats1.html.
2. Pit Bulls are commonly used as therapy dogs. They're used in Search and Rescue too. Look for Kris Crawford and her dogs who have saved many people (www.forpitssake.org).
3. "Popsicle", a Pit Bull, is a narcotic and bomb sniffing dog who has the largest recorded single drug find in Texas history.
4. A Pit, who's lived with her more than two years, helped save both Tollison and her sister from a fire that erupted early last Wednesday in her Pine Ridge Road home.
5. Waterloo, Ontario -- NORTON, a five-year-old American Staffordshire Terrier cross breed was the only one to hear Ann Mathews collapse after a severe reaction to a spider bite. Norton managed to rouse Ann's husband Barrie, still asleep in bed, and lead him to the main floor of the house where Ann was losing consciousness. Barrie called 911, and as ambulance attendants arrived she stopped breathing. Ann was revived at the hospital and spent several days recovering.
6. Put in a wheelchair by a 1996 horseback riding accident, Morrison is now assisted in her daily activities by Panda, a Pit Bull mix she found wandering the streets and trained to switch on lights, retrieve dropped objects and pull her wheelchair. "I needed a dog and she needed a person," said Morrison. (Good thing the local "shelter" didn't get a hold of the dog first, huh???)
7. Gary Watkins, eleven years old, was absorbed in chasing lizards when Weela, the family Pit Bull, plowed into him with a body slam that sent him sprawling. Gary's mother, Lori, saw the whole incident and remembers being surprised at first, because Weela always played kindly with children. But her surprise quickly turned to horror when she saw a rattlesnake sink its fangs into Weela's face. Somehow Weela had sensed the snake's presence from across the yard and rushed to push Gary out of strinking range.
Luckily for thirty people, twenty-nine dogs, thirteen horses and a cat, Weela recovered from the snake's venom. Luckily, because that's how many lives she saved a few years later. For her heroism, Weela was named KEN-L RATION'S DOG HERO OF THE YEAR IN 1993. Read about it here http://www.pitbullsontheweb.com/petbull/articles/weela.html.
You need more??? The stories are endless....
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