Pitbull Stereotypes
Dogs have been in the lives of humans for centuries. The bond between dogs and people is the purest most loyal love of all. Dogs impact the lives of their humans in numerous ways such as bringing joy with their cute fuzzy faces, giving us kisses when day our day was bad, they even do their part in keeping the community safe, and alert us of dangers in our homes. Dogs try so hard to please humans and their lives as domesticated animals depend on us. We decide their fate. Unfortunately, some dogs are trained and used for fighting. Because of dog fighting, the images of certain breeds become tainted with terrible stereotypes that generalize the entire breed of dog as a dangerous, blood thirsty monster.
The most popular example of this is pit bulls. The growing hype of pit bull stereotypes is becoming a real issue with shelters and pit bull owners. Shelters are over flooded with pit bulls resulting in approximately 2,800 pit bull euthanizations a day or 1 million a year and only one in every 600 pit bulls finding a
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What people have yet to understand is dogs can not be generalized by a breed. Dogs are individual, and do have individual faults genetically and from how they’ve been treated in their lifetime. Its likely that a dog who has experienced trauma in their lifetime will attack unpredictable but the dog nor the breed is at blame for that. Humans need to realize that though our dogs love us and are a part of the family, they are still dogs and not humans. Dogs of any breed will relate human nature to dog nature and may take normal human signals as aggressive dog signals. According to sugarloafanimalhospital.com.au, dog aggression could be result of misread signals exchanged between human and dog or trauma from the dogs past. Dog attacks are explained within the individuality of the dog and can not be categorized to a specific breed like pit