For someone who is so against the bull breeds...as there is no actual pit bull breed...I was astounded by her absolute rage. This woman goes on to attack me personally and in a libelous sense, who calls me a 'pathological liar' and accuses me of suffering from 'dementia'. Wow. This person, so adverse to violent behavior in animals, is literally frothing at the mouth, much like the photoshopped images which populate her blogspot.
When she attacked me and my article much like a chained beast in heat, I was hard pressed to become angry. I see her as so consumed by her own fears, her own rage and so full of bad information gained from sensational and lurid top 40 radio talk shows that to be angry would be counterproductive.
My own practice has been to try and find solutions to problems, not to extinguish them. This practice has won its share of enemies, most of whom feed off the same propaganda as our blogger. The inclination is to snuff out the perpetrator, hence breed bans and hate blogs.
Why not search for a cure for the problem? That, to me, is a no brainer. Rather than kill every single pit bull, look for the panacea? When I personally experienced violent behavior in a bully girl, I embarked on a year long journey to find the answer.
In the past, when I'd encounter a dog with aggression issues, I would react as does most of the population. I would take the dog to training. Some of the dogs were able to be worked with, but others were beyond my help. Looking back, I see exactly what the problem had been. Each of these dogs had recently been vaccinated as are all dogs coming out of the shelter system.
This was long before I began to feed raw and study homeopathy and to learn about the ill effects of chemicals and metals on the body. Even though I fed the dogs and cats a raw diet, I was still vaccinating. Why? Because they told me to....because it was the law.
Then I met Raspberry. Raspberry was a little staffie bull who'd been found running stray. The finder had her for about three months and would let her free roam along with his own dog, took her to the dog park and virtually had no issues. She was a good natured wiggly butt. He and his girlfriend were scheduled to go on vacation and I offered to foster Raspberry in their absence.
She immediately went into heat and I scheduled her for a spay the next day. She was inoculated for rabies upon admittance. I picked up an entirely different dog that night than I had dropped off that morning.
Here is Raspberry's story:
http://www.thebodycodetohealth.info/Raspberry.html
What happened with Raspberry was important for me to share with others. Knowing that I'd put dogs to sleep for suffering from rabies vaccinosis was a hard truth to admit. Again, here was my opportunity to try and make things right by sharing Raspberry's story with other pet owners and animal lovers.
When I wrote the article about dog aggression and vaccinosis, our blogger reared her angry head. It was then I realized that some people do not want a solution. These people do not want an answer, the same who write hate blogs and form extremist groups.
These same people would have killed Raspberry. They would kill Tex, my deaf pittie who doesn't have a mean bone in his body. The blogger's hero, Kory "Cowboy" Nelson, got to live his dream when 3497 family pets were murdered in Denver. Once hate gets going, there just ain't no stopping it.
The kind of fear and hatred that fuel this person's blogs are terrifying and the same brand of hatred that spawned 'Mein Kampf'. I can't fight these zealots, nor do I wish to. I can only hope they find some peace and happiness in their lives. I can protect the animals in my own care and keep them safe from harm's way.
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I have a pit mix. She's half greyhound half pitbull. The greyhound in her changes her appearance just enough to fool people into thinking she's "pit-free." I can see it in her face and her personality but most that aren't actually familiar with pits miss it entirely.
ReplyDeleteI always find it interesting when people start in on the hate thinking I'll join in with them. To them, who have interacted extensively with my little girl, all dogs that have even a smidgen of pit in them should be banned and they wouldn't want to be near one for even a second. Then I tell them what my dog is. Their response 9 times out of 10 is "well, she's a exception to the rule of course." Makes me want to pull out my hair.
You people are joking right? I am a pittie lover and defender through and through, but I'm sorry, vaccinating your animals is important. Whether it's the legally required rabies, or the recommended distemper and lepto, these vaccinations can save your animals' lives.
ReplyDeleteI have witnessed too much suffering because cheap and uninformed owners didn't want to pay for a lepto vaccine, heard of way too many distemper outbreaks leading to suffering and death. And rabies? Why isn't it so prevalent as it used to be? Because of vaccinating.
I understand that not every animal will react as expected to a vaccination, just as some people will feel adverse affects from theirs. But saying that not vaccinating at all is the solution, is a poorly thought out, misinformed solution.
Perhaps Raspberry was one of those candidates who reacted poorly to vaccination, but in no way does that mean vaccinations should be stopped for all dogs. That's absurd. Health is an important part of welfare (and I am a welfare researcher, in an animal welfare lab) and health is as much preventative as it is reactive.