Pit Bull Awareness

 

By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom.
By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
"The Sutra of Hui Neng"

What is the essence of advocating for *awareness?

Is it telling the truth, the real history, or should it consist of half-truths, or making up dangerous fairy-tales?  What best serves pit bulls and people who desire to be good stewards for their dogs?

Pit Bulls were once called "Nanny Dogs".

Pit Bulls have better temperaments than most breeds of dogs. 

Temperaments for what, exactly?

Pit bulls are the only breed of dog selected for non-human aggression.  

All the man-biters were culled.

Is it advocacy to resort to the ridiculous? 

Lightning, bath-slippers, and coconuts kill more.

It's impossible to identify a pit bull.

There is no such thing as a pit bull.

Is it advocacy when you have to find another name that for which you advocate?

Pibbles, Pitty, Staffie or St. Francis Terriers......

or just call it a "Lab-mix", a mutt from the pound. 

Is it advocacy when you have to call your opposition names like racists, Hitler, and Haters?

 Some of them were once in your shoes.  

Their pit bull whispered to them by shedding blood and shattering bones.

Is it advocacy when you blame the media for reporting another attack? 

Doesn't the same media you blame also report incidents of hero pit bulls,

and feature them on "adoptable pet of the day" segments?

 How many pit-bull shows do we need on the Cable networks? 

Is it advocacy, when you blame victims for their own attack, 

when you search high and low for scapegoats,
and the answer is simple:

D.N.A..

Is it advocacy, when that being for which you give so much time, money, and effort to....
rehabilitate an image,
doesn't care because it's just a dog.

Just a dangerous dog.

 Is it advocacy to condemn those who created the beast in the first place, 

and then to peddle their unwanted wares by appealing to others 

to their good intentions and idealistic values:

 Rescue, rehabilitation, redemption, second chances, eradicating stereotypes, and philanthropy. 

You make it easier to hide their evil deeds. 

The pit bulls are spreading their awareness in their own way.

They are being...the truth of their essence is radiating forth.

They are educating us in their ways, and you don't see it. 

You refuse to look.

You refuse to listen.

How much more death and misery will it take until you "advocates" get it?

What is it called again, when you do the same thing over and over and over again,

and you still get the same results?

  Or worse. 

 Is it advocacy?

Is it awareness?

Or is it insanity?

May all beings be well and happy,
May all beings be free from strife.

I wish that for the pit bulls too.

गते गते पारगते पारसंगते बोधि स्वाहा

Gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā.

There are over ten million hits for the Google search "Pit Bull Awareness". 

Walking on Water

Of course, pit bull owners everywhere seem to think that their dogs walk on water, but when contemplating the connection of water and pit bulls, I think of garden hoses.  They are supposed to be something one can turn to break up a fight, but alas, it does not always work.  There is even a case where a garden hose shoved directly down the gullet of an attacking pit bull didn't let go.  She, and her unborn puppies, have since gathered by the river, where bright angel feet have trod. 

R.I.P.  Puddles the pibble.

A Shrine to a hunk of Cheese

Daddy was my Tibet, my Himalaya, my *Gouda, my Buddha, my source of calmness," Millan told Associated Press.


Just remembering, that despite having a guru of a dog that died of natural causes, the dog guru tried to end it all.  I don't think he would have been able to take a pit bull ripping his dog appart, like so many of us have endured.  

*Cheese

This is cheesy. 

Here is a poem by Sadfalada, actually, a more glorious tribute.

Pray

Pray. That's All I can say.

On Children

It's been said before, but people don't get it.  So here goes my sermon once more..... 

I Believe in Pit Bulls

 Zealotry Artifact


There is no such thing as pit bulls, but I believe in them.

I've seen them with my own eyes.

I don't believe that little bloody movie will ever go away,
It plays over and over again,
Of the day the pit bull like beast broke through my wrought iron gate,
Who would have Believed it!

I believe that they are dangerous, that they should be regulated
So that idiots like this don't own them.
I believe that the well meaning like these,
are the absolute worse enemies of the pit bulls.

I also believe this is evidence of a leash law violation. 

I believe that those retractable leashes are a very bad idea, in any case.

It's Witchcraft!

 

Once upon a time, back in the days when everyone wanted to ban Doberman Pincers.......

Oh wait, this isn't a fairy tale.  It's a true story! October 31, 1982 (The Tuscaloosa News) 


Not coven of witches in custody fight....
Pit bulldogs convinced judge

Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles - It was not the coven of 13 lesbian witches that bothered the commissioner.  Or the books on witches and the preparation of "psychedelic mushrooms."  Or the  "mummified human" called the "Indian lady."  Or the wall-sized tapestry of the Medusa-headed "lizard lady" or even the five-pointed star called a witch's pantagram (pentagram).

It was the five pit bulldogs that convinced Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Robert a. Schnider Friday to grant temporary  custody of a 2-year-old Purdy Tran to her Vietnamese father, Tuan a. Tran, 37, a professor of anatomy. 

The little girl has been living with her mother, Laura Tran, 26, a chiropractor and several other women in a 5,839 square-foot mansion shrouded by weeds and plants six feet high in nearby Altadena, since Friday, Aug. 13. 

Henry James Moehler IV, a lawyer for United Fathers of America Inc. who specializes in father's custody claims, sought the temporary custody for the father who feared the child was in danger. Koehler said Schnider,  who considered his temporary order in a short closed-door session, was reluctant to "judge anyone's lifestyle" in such a hasty court proceeding, and based his ruling solely on the presence of the dogs.

Mrs. Tran, who sued her husband for divorce last Aug. 5 acting as her own attorney, did not appear in court to contest the action.  A full court hearing on the custody matter will be conducted in about three weeks.

"I'm delighted, "Koehler said.  "He (Schnider) made his decision on the imminent danger to the child and not on somebody's lifestyle.  That is absolutely correct.  A very thorough piece of work that he did here." 

These days of course, it's a new lifestyle to impose imminent danger to children,  and it's the rage!

Tran declined to talk with reporters.

Among six sworn declarations presented to Schnider detailing the child's forced lifestyle was one by Los Angeles Sheriff's Lt. Daniel Burt, an expert on dog-fighting investigations, who said a pit bulldog could be provoked to attack by a child's "normal squealing or screaming." 

Once attacked, he said, a small child would normally thrash about, driving the dog "into a frenzy almost like that of a feeding shark." 

"Due to my years of contact with and study of the pit bull,"  Burt stated, "I can say, without qualification, that I would not permit a child to be in the presence of or in contact with the dog without immediate and constant adult supervision." 

Declare that today, and you will be called a HATER or a NAZI!

Investigators and friends reported that the Altadena mansion was guarded by one pit bulldog, Tantra (a Hindu name supposedly emphasizing female sexual power), inside the house, and four others in the backyard.

I wonder what a pit bull named Tantra could possibly symbolize for a bunch of lesbian witches....
not that there is anything wrong with that.....

"The court finds that living in a residence containing pit bulldogs poses a significant danger to the minor child, " Schnider wrote in his brief order, "And expressly bases its order on that finding and not on the various other allegations...." 

But it was expressly those allegations that conjured up visions of Halloween.  A babystiter and two famliy friends - all women -provided the sworn descriptions of the mummy, tapestry, pantagram (a star-like figure used by witches), fearful paintings and books on witchcraft and mushrooms they saw in the house.

Stephen C. Wood, a private detective hired by Tran and Koehler to investigate the child's habitat, stated in court documents that witches normally have "satanic servants" such as the dogs to guard secret areas.  He said his research also showed that Satan tries to reclaim the earth every 28th year, that 1982 is a 28th year of the repeating cycle and that Sunday, Halloween, is the date when Satan's powers are strongest. 

And Lo and Behold, it seems that these furry "satanic servants" have come to power, and as of 2010, they are taking over the earth.

"There are references," Wood stated, "to witches sacrificing children during their ceremonies."

I'm going to get you my little pretties,
And your little dog too!

Since then, many children, postal workers, little old ladies walking down the street, well meaning bleeding heart types who missed their chance to march for civil rights, little yappy dogs, cats, horses, sheep, marine mammals, and yes, even goats, who used to be the symbol of Satan himself...have been sacrificed to the Nanny Dog.  According to this, the next cycle will end in 2038.

 In the end, very happy to report, likely due to the wisdom of the judge listening to the advice of Lt. Daniel Burt, little Purdy grew up and became a strong,  beautiful, altruistic feminist. She was crowned the 80th Rose Queen of Pasadena.  As far as we know, she is living happily ever after, and resides in a city where pit bulls are banned. 

Many thanks to VINTAGE, this little blip on the tedious seemingly never-ending-miles-long-list-of- -child-sacrifice- to-the-Nanny Dog, lives reduced to centimeters of text by pit bulls.  This one stood out like a sore thumb, and deserved to be given its own shrine and alter at the First Church of Pit Bulls.

To all of those souls reduced to  a few lines of text, who are now memory and star dust, we will not forget you.  Almost every day it seems, a new name is added to the list.  We will tell your stories.  Maybe one day, the world will listen and learn the lesson.