Here is an updated story concerning the actual charging of the Pit Bull owners from the incident in San Diego… Is that specific portion good news? Yes! Unfortunately the media–at the behest of a boatload of hateful human beings–have already skewed the conversation and spent the better part of the last 2 weeks beating the “ban-drum.” Not to mention 13 Pit Bulls lost their lives, 11 of which were completely innocent 3-week-old puppies.
But back to the story… I was drawn to 2 particular portions of the article, which I’ve screenshot below:
The first part being: Why weren’t the Boxers as a breed then targeted by the citizens? By the media? By the city?–after this “attack”?
And secondly: Why, in a span of 25 long years was there only 1 instance where an owner was actually arrested and then subsequently convicted after a “mauling” incident?
To my first question…
Am I proposing the banning of all Boxers? Hell no, I love ALL dogs… I’m just using the absurdity of the witch hunt-mentality and applying it to all incidents NOT involving Pit Bulls, and then asking myself if there is/was a discriminatory precedent set? If the answer is “NO,” which in this case it was, then why not?
To the media… Was this just not a juicy enough story for you? Do some of your staffers personally have Boxers? What gives? Where was the lynch mob? All of these are sarcastic questions of course, but it shows the lack of consideration given to Pit Bulls when an animal of that “type” finds itself in a situation such as this…
And another question, going out to Boxer guardians… Do you feel lucky? Knowing that your dogs are on the “okay” list? Do you recognize dog racism when you see it, or only when it applies to your type of dog? Would you stand with Pit Bull guardians when their dogs are marked for extermination? Or would you join in on the conversation, villainizing the pitties amongst the mob? I know plenty of Boxer guardians that LOVE Pit Bulls and could write this article verbatim, for me, and on a pit’s behalf… But at the same time, there are some guardians of all breeds that talk pitties down–clinging to the safety that exists in knowing that their dogs would never be targeted… I find that highly disturbing, shallow, ignorant, lacking in long-term conceptual thinking, among other things…
What happens if this tyrannical world one day comes to fruition? A world where the scum owners continue to get off, free from charge and media scrutiny, and where the pitties then perish and are phased out? Well, obviously those same scum owners would just move on to another breed… Maybe yours? And then the cycle repeats itself.
And to my second question…
That makes 2 cases in the last (now) 30 years, where the owners have been a partial target… How only 2? I guess that’s 2 better than 0. Can’t this situation create some sort of momentum in the direction of COMMON SENSE? How about the owners become the ENTIRE target, and then make that the precedent. Now that’s a world I’d like to live in.
