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Sunday, November 19, 2006

How to Manipulate a Statistic
(Or: Painting With a Broad Brush 101)

Was reading the news this morning when I came across this. Seems as though an Ohio study (start your engines) found that every, single, dog owner of  so-called "vicious breeds" had at least one stop at the cop shop for one reason or another.

The study also noted, in a random, neocon sort of way, that bully dog owners had records of "significantly more criminal convictions — including crimes against children — than owners of licensed, gentler dogs such as beagles..."

So next time you see me walking one of our pit-bull mixes, you might want to cross to the other side of the street. I could be a child molester, a convicted criminal, even have outstanding parking tickets! I guess the fact that we didn't ask the biological background of our "rescued" (hate that term) dogs marks us for life as probable criminals. Is HCSO going to begin a policy of stopping dog-walkers by bad-boy breed  (famously akitas, any type of put bull, rottweilers and chows--although everyone knows, ankle biters are the most-busted)?

Like we said in kid-dom, "Not hardly." But those Ohio people with their local information getting picked up by msnbc.com and looking for all the world like a sweeping generalization should just concentrate on catching the criminals, not perusing animal registration records looking for coincidences that can be used, once again, to discriminate against responsible dogs and dog owners.

Besides, how vicious is this?"Grrrr, I say. Grrrr!"

 

Posted by: Likes2mtnbike at November 19, 2006 08:46 | link | comments (1)
news, dogs, pit bulls


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#1  12 November 2007 - 20:14
 
True pit bulls are not ALL bad.. but my personal experience is making me increasing negative about the breed. Today for the third time hiking on a national park service trail my dog was attacked by a pit bull. People bring their unsocialized beasts for a hike away from it all - i was so made. The owner had this massive dog on a thin retractable leash. my 4th experience with a pit was watching it tear the snout off a calf at a local barn. I ran to the defense of the animal which had to be put down... My brother owns a sweet pit - but they are predisposed to aggresion unless properly trained and socialized... and there are too many morons out there who do neither.
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