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Showing posts with label American Pit Bull Foundation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Pit Bull Foundation. Show all posts

Thursday, January 7, 2016

The Problem With Pit Bulls


It's horrible that KFC kicked out that 3-year-old girl, but let's focus on the real problem: pit bulls were bred to be violent

The social media universe became furious at KFC this week after an employee reportedly asked a 3-year-old victim of a dog attack to leave one of their restaurants because “her face is disrupting our customers.”

But it wasn’t KFC employees who broke down the door to Victoria Wilcher’s grandfather’s house and mauled the toddler until half her face was paralyzed and she lost the use of one of her eyes. Three pit bulls did that.

Pit bulls make up only 6% of the dog population, but they’re responsible for 68% of dog attacks and 52% of dog-related deaths since 1982, according to research compiled by Merritt Clifton, editor of Animals 24-7, an animal-news organization that focuses on humane work and animal-cruelty prevention.

Clifton himself has been twice attacked by dogs (one pit bull), and part of his work involves logging fatal and disfiguring attacks. Clifton says that for the 32 years he’s been recording, there has never been a year when pit bulls have accounted for less than half of all attacks. A CDC report on dog-bite fatalities from 1978 to 1998 confirms that pit bulls are responsible for more deaths than any other breed, but the CDC no longer collects breed-specific information.

Another report published in the April 2011 issue of Annals of Surgery found that one person is killed by a pit bull every 14 days, two people are injured by a pit bull every day, and young children are especially at risk. The report concludes that “these breeds should be regulated in the same way in which other dangerous species, such as leopards, are regulated.” That report was shared with TIME by PETA, the world’s largest animal-rights organization.

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Saturday, December 13, 2014

A Dog's Christmas Wish: A Home After Spending 10 Years Living in Kennel


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Charlotte, NC (WBTV) - It's a search a decade in the making, that will hopefully end this Christmas. 11-year old Tina P has been living in a Charlotte kennel for nearly 4,000 days, do the math and that's more than ten years .

Jennifer Hunt is a volunteer with the American Pit Bull Foundation, the organization that has been working to find Tina a family to call her own.

"She makes me smile, she's the best part of my week," Hunt said.

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