The Negative Effects the Media Has on the Pit Bull Breed

The Negative Effects The Media Has On The stigmatize diddly-squat shroud Did you know that for over one hundred years the play off bell ringer was called the Nanny Dog by Ameri houses, and was the ancestry that symbolized our dry land? One of the close(prenominal) famous hellhole red cents was Petey from The Little Rascals. For generations stack got a tick bull through to keep their children safe because these dogs were the most trus 2rthy of any do with children and adults. instantaneously the Nanny Dog is being persecuted by the media, and being called the hellion breed that frightens people. Even though plenty of other dogs bite people, they only incommode stories about check off diddlysquats. Poodle bites man is not a in truth eye catching publicize. The media publicizes crazy myths, and they label any dog a notice Bull even if it is not. The media also zeros in on the specifically negative and extreme incidents they often do not provide the scene surroundi ng the incidents, and also neglect to mention important statistical discipline and comparisons to other similar incidents. Being a Pit Bull owner, and having galore(postnominal) fri finiss who own them as well, I know that the media is incorrect in their portraiture of the Pit Bull. They are the most loving and gentle breed I have always known.The media had labeled certain dog breeds as crowing breeds for a long time. The Pit Bull is on the dot the most fresh victim of the medias criticism. Before Pit Bulls it was the Rottweiler, before the Rottweiler it was Dobermans, and before Dobermans it was German Shepherds. Each breeds being deemed as vicious and unpredictable to be well-nigh people. Every time there was uproar of the public for bans and restrictions on owning them. It is distractfully ironic that the media has turned on the breed once the symbol of our country and our national babysitter.In temperance tests (the equivalent of how many generation your kid can poke your dog in the eye before it bites him) of all breeds the most tolerant was the Golden Retriever. The second most tolerant was the Pit Bull. I am sure anyone has heard of the Pit Bulls locking jaw, this is a myth. Pit Bulls jaws do not lock in fact they do not even have the most powerful bite of dog breeds. Pit Bulls are not human aggressive, in fact studies have shown that Pit Bull puppies prefer human company to their mothers two weeks earlier than any other breed. Also, another common myth is that they beginnert feel pain.They feel just as much pain as any other breed. These are the myths that the media is drilling into the publics heads. Now this tolerant, patient, and gentle breed of dog is embarrassingly being depicted as the most dangerous. Now sadly 6,000 Pit Bulls are fructify to death every day, by far the highest number of any breed to be euthanized. Mistaken identity is a huge problem in the media nowadays as well. There is countless times where headlines claimed that a Pit Bull had done wrong and then later on govern out it was not a Pit Bull at all, or they just say Pit Bull because the dog resembled one.And even if the media corrects themselves the damage had already been done, people already have the image of the Pit Bull in their mind doing wrong. For example, a study from October, 2007 has as a headline Lynn teacher mauled by Pit Bull. Then the horizontal surface goes on to expose the dog as a Lab/Rottweiler mix. The barrier Pit Bull should never have been used. Another story March, 2006 headline Pit Bull attacks 12 year old. However the picture shown of the captured dog is not a Pit Bull, and does not even face to be a Pit Bull mix.After complaints to the news station regarding the mistaken identity and the use of the term Pit Bull, instead of correcting their mistake, they took down the photo and just left the story up written the same way. These are just a hardly a(prenominal) examples of hundreds of falsely identified Pit Bull s tories. Now there whitethorn well be some stories where a Pit Bull or Pit Bull mix was correctly identified, but many times they do not mention the circumstances that the attack happened, or the statistical comparison to any other breed of dog attacks.The Humane association of the United States says that it is imperative that the dog universe the community be understood. To plainly pull numbers of attacks does not accurately represent the breed. For example, by reviewing a study that states there have been five attacks by modular Poodles in a community and ten attacks from Pit Bulls in the same community, it would appear that Pit Bulls are to a greater extent dangerous. However, if you look at the dog population in that community and find there are 50 Standard Poodles and 500 Pit Bulls, then statistically the Pit Bull would be the safer breed.The media turning them into this bad vicious dog is making the wrong people want to own them. Drug dealers and felons are seeing them as s urety dogs, or using them to make some cash by breeding. As a result of over breeding, many communities have much more Pit Bull and Pit Bull mixes than any other dogs. With the over population of the breed, peoples fear of them, and breed restrictions many of these dogs end up in shelters or euthanized. On the positive side latterly I have seen some great stories about Pit bulls. many another(prenominal) people re starting to get educated that this breed is no more dangerous than any other dog. A story from may 9th of 2012 headlines Hero Pit Bull saves owner from train tracks. This amazing story goes on to explain how the woman fell unconscious on the tracks and Lilly, the 8 year old Pit Bull, managed to drag her out of harms way. Risking her own life Lilly was badly hurt by being soft on(p) by the train. After needing her leg amputated, many surgeries and physical therapy she is still just as happy as ever. The Pit Bull can go through so many traumas and still bounce back and be just as loving as ever.Pit Bulls that have been used as fighting dogs and bait dogs get adopted and act like no(prenominal) of it ever happened. Though the media has already caused so much damage to the vox populi of the Pit Bull breed, I am hopeful that people go out wake up and realize these dogs are one of the best companions you could ever have. My Pit Bull wants nothing more than to be loved he is an 80 pound baby who sleeps under the covers in my bed. Maybe the Pit Bull will one day be known as the symbol of America, and the Nanny Dog again.