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PitBullsArea.com is a suspect website

Posted April 24th, 2014 in Opinion and tagged , by Josh

I call bullshit on this recently sprung up website PitBullsArea.com. It’s an incredibly poor, and dare I say dumb, website peppered with misinformation and vague implications that just sound basic and stupid. Yet it’s promoted as being Pit Bull supporting in nature. I can’t tell if whomever created it is just severely uninformed and simplistic, or if it’s a sham website created with the sole intention of having its information exploited by Pit Bull hating psychopaths. Whoever writes for the website constantly speaks in generalities, and they make some pretty outlandish claims that are just fantastically false in certain instances. It also has almost 30,000 “likes” on Facebook, but curiously the largest thread since its November 2013 inception has garnered a whopping 4 comments. Mysterious enough. It’s seems like a website not even run by an actual human being, maybe instead by a bot or a computer software generation system or something similar to that. Here’s some of their silly headlines…

“4 ways to prevent Pit Bull attacks”
“6 tips on how to prevent Pit Bull attacks”
“6 ways to properly raise a blue Pit Bull puppy”
“Understanding Pit Bull body language”
“5 facts you should consider before adopting blue nose Pit Bull puppies”
“Tips on how to care for your red nose Pit Bull puppies”
“8 best tips you can use for training your blue nose Pit Bull”
“7 causes of Pit Bull barking”

Um, what? Almost every single one of their posted story headlines (I just chose the dumbest) gives the impression from the start that “Pit Bulls” differ from other dogs. I don’t know if it was a trendy marketing decision or just foolishness that’s driving that angle, but it sure is incredibly unfair and misleading in numerous ways. Attempting to break down breed-specific body language and barking? WTF. Preposterous nonsense. Further, whenever they’re saying the whole blue and red nose stuff it’s usually written in a way to say that they will all be 1 way and based on their coloring. Preposterous nonsense, again. For example, one post says that all blue nose puppies will grow up to be “animal aggressive.” Just complete and utter rubbish. Last, the numerous failures of breed identification and the absolute fact of each dog of any breed being an individual sadly don’t seem to be topics that are given much mention on their website. And with that, it’s framework then drives home the opposite idea, even if it’s an unintended result, which is surely possible. I just know that this is bad advocacy.