If you saw a Pit Bull being walked by its owner at your local park, how would you react? Would you cringe at the thought of the monstrous thing and stay out of its way, or would you be compelled to ask if you may pet this wonderful, misunderstood creature? The general public would be afraid of the dog. However, the properly educated portion of the human race knows better than to conform to popular belief and succumb to the mass hysteria regarding this breed without first doing research of their own. Most people shudder at the thought or sight of a Pit Bull and consider them vicious atrocities, but I will show that Pit Bulls are innocent and really are just misunderstood.
The phrase; “bred to kill” and “aggressive killer” are thrown around without hesitation from those that are not familiar with the breed. In the Pit Bull debate, the word "vicious" functions to vindicate the breed and cause a lot of negative reactions from the press and the general public, this aggression is nurtured and not innate. The fact that they are publicly ousted as a particularly fearsome breed doesn’t allow people to form their own opinions and forces them to feel afraid of them. Fear is a feeling of apprehension and a response that is both physiological and psychological, to the perception of danger or harm (Petersen 1996). When we hear of horror stories in the media our minds are made up for us without having an informed argument from both sides of the Pit Bull debate.
Thesis The American Pit bull used to be viewed as Americas dog, but now many people have taken to the fear of this amazing breed, and this fear has lead to heart break for many pit bull lovers. There are just small things we can do to change the view of these dogs. Ethos Dogs are loved for their loyalty, variety, and abilities. Pit bulls are the greatest examples of these qualities, yet they are still the most feared and misunderstood dog breed. Pre-summary Seen as monsters because... Seen as pets because...
Once the trend got publicly known, it became a huge deal in the media. At this point people think that the pit bull is a mean, aggressive, man-eating breed. Cops, landlords, and the general public began banning this breed because of humans training them to attack. When I was 5 years old, I witnessed my sister being attacked by my grandmothers Scottish terrier. This is a small, nonaggressive dog.
For example, he only fought the monster, Grendel, because the monster was killing all the men. MLK fought because he refused to let segregation go on any longer. Segregation was when the black and whites were separated in their daily lives. The differences between Beowulf and MLK were that Beowulf fought physically and MLK fought verbally. Beowulf ripped a monster’s arm of with his bare hands.
The beast struggles forward, broke the ring, and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water. At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movement but the tearing of teeth and claws.” (152-153) The group did not even give Simon a chance. They just automatically assumed that he was the beast even though he was pleading and screaming to tell them what he had just discovered. Simon was the nicest and most loyal one on the island and he did not deserve to die that
Last year, in August, a four year old child was brutally mangled by a pit bull terrier while the pit bull's owner stood back and made no attempt to stop the dog. As a result of this one incident, the media is in a frenzy, bombarding the brainwashed public with prejudice filled articles one-by-one “ToT mauled in a savage pitbull attack” “Rogue Pit bull mauls two infants” “Race to review dog laws”. Even parliament is on the rise to consider a Breed specific legislation, basically this means if a pit bull was identified on the street, it will either face the rest of a its life in a dog shelter or it get euthanasia. NO….. That’s not good enough, parliament. Possible owners need to be educated on how to raise a dog.
Drugging animals is too costly. The reason why meat is cheap as it is now is because they don’t pay for drugs to give animals painless deaths, but instead the animals are forced dealing with massive pain to keep the consumers happy. Just like how, “Hutu started killing with guns and grenades. But because they were so expensive, they later turned into machetes, clubs and hands for killing”, leaving anyone a brutal, slow and painful death. This is what animals go through, all day every
From the time Grendel was little until now, he had no one to talk to and everyone misjudged him. The deer, the ram the human, all of their first impression toward Grendel was freight. As you can see from the text, when Grendel said, “Pigs!” (27 Gardner), in response Gardner wrote, “the king snatched an ax from the man beside him and, without any warning, he hurled at me” (27) this explained how misjudged Grendel was, just from trying to say the word pig, the human still attacked him as if he was already a monster. The goodness and purity within Grendel was never able to be express because no one has given him a chance. In both the human and animal eyes Grendel is seen like a monster.
Some people label a pit-bull to be the most dangerous and violent dog there is to be, but others think pit-bulls are one of the best guard dogs there is. As you know people fight pit-bulls illegally all the time, but what some may not know if you get caught it’s a felon. Pit-bulls value is breathe taking, this dog can run up to as much as $5000. There is different kind of bloodlines, as an example you have the bloodline gotti, red nose, blue nose, and etc. They may be one of the most vicious dogs, but they are worth having in your company when being attacked.