Reply #48: It's a shame that emotion has led to a breed of animal suffering [View All]

for being unfairly maligned. Yes, it's sad when an animal injures or kills a person but the attitude toward pit bulls are the work of the media in the past hyping a string of unfortunate and unrelated incidents. Those who were victims or knew victims and those who want to be activists then took to becoming myth and fear spreaders which later became propaganda. Flawed studies and numbers then sealed their fate. So many pit bulls then were left to be neglected and or killed. Today, abused and abandoned pit bulls are killed as people aren't as willing to adopt them.

As for those asking about flawed studies. It's all in the numbers. The problem is the data is never broken out by specific breeds and we have very incomplete data. "Pit bull" usually multiple breeds, unlike other dog groups, that automatically skew the data. Also, for many incidents the breed is undocumented. If it's a pit bull it's more likely to be recorded. Likely due in part to their unfair recognizable as a supposedly dangerous breed. This again, makes pit bulls wrongly appear worse. Also, many pit bulls aren't registered, as others like labs are. This again skews the data in favor of other popular breeds.

But hey, keep shaming dogs just because they are born as a certain breed.