Jonny Justice – a Former Vick Dog with a New Leash on Life

This former Vick dog is amazing…the video doesn’t mention it, but he was a member of the team at Paws for Tales, a group of dogs who help children learn to read by providing a “safe” and non-judgmental audience for those who are shy or have difficulty trying to learn in front of people.  His owner withdrew him from the program after another pittie in the program was unfairly – and illegally – discriminated against by a librarian in Pennsylvania.

Click the link below to see Jonny Justice strut his stuff!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl8In6bFhmk

Harold Lloyd With His Lloyal Pooch!

Don’t know who Harold Lloyd is?  Find out here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Lloyd

BSL — Why it’s Just Not Right

Would you really be able to positively identify a dog as a pit bull?  Maybe not as easily or accurately as you may think.  Take this simple test and see how you score:

http://www.pitbullsontheweb.com/petbull/findpit.html

Did you get it right? We’d be surprised if you did!  Which raises a whole new set of questions and concerns.  Hence, “The American Bar Association urges against breed-specific laws” — just one quote from this article pointed out by one of our readers.  Check it out in its entirety:

http://fox2now.com/2013/02/06/fox-files-pit-bulls-wrongly-blamed-for-dog-attacks/

Poetic Justice

Enough said

Rethinking Jessica Biel

We have to admit, we don’t always have the highest regard for a large majority of the Hollywood type and their off-screen escapades (although most of the four-pawed stars do seem relatively grounded).  But it takes a smart, intuitive and deep person to be able to love and relate to a pit bull…and to commit to all that responsible pittie ownership involves.  Having said that, despite some of the tabloid tattling in times past, we must concede that there are obviously brains (and a pittieful heart) behind this beauty after all.  See for yourself:

http://stubbydog.org/2013/01/celebrity-pit-bulls-2/

Nighty-night!

Well, it’s the end of our first day on this new blog, and it’s time to go to sleep.  Brucie is way ahead of the game, he’s already out like a light!  Good night, all!

Lovers Not Fighters

Breeding a dog to be a fighter is different than breeding it for other traits.  There’s nothing about herding or retrieving or pulling a sled that goes against a dog’s internal drives.  But creating a dog that wants to attack other dogs is at odds with a dog’s entire developmental background in which it has been instilled with the instinct to work together with other dogs in a pack in order to survive.

– From “The Lost Dogs” by Jim Gorant

A True Winner!

The 49ers may have lost the big game, but this team member is a winner in our book!

http://stubbydog.org/2013/02/celebrity-pit-bulls-3/

Yay San Diego!

Does Brucie look like an enthusiastic cheerleader?

More Interesting Pit Bull Facts

Did you know:

Between 1966 and 1975 there was ONE newspaper account of a fatality that resulted from a pit bull attack.  In 1986, pit bulls appeared in 350 newspaper, magazine and journal articles.  Some of those reported legitimate pit bull attacks – the price of so many unsocialized [neglected, ignored, excluded from positive physical interaction and contact], abused [beaten, starved, and worse] and aggressively trained [kill or be killed] dogs popping up around the country – but many were the result of pit bull hysteria, in which almost any incident involving a dog was FALSELY REPORTED AS A PIT BULL ATTACK.  The breed, which had existed in some form for hundreds of years, didn’t suddenly lose control.  The dogs simply fell into the hands of many people who had no interest in control.

By 2000, pit bull fear and hype had reached such proportions that the breed was banned in more than two hundred cities and counties around the United States.  Lost in all the legislation was the fact that for decades THE PIT BULL HAD BEEN CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST LOYAL, LOVING, and PEOPLE-FRIENDLY DOGS ON THE PLANET

From “The Lost Dogs” by Jim Gorant