Pitbulls Used to Be Considered the Perfect "Nanny Dogs" for Children --

[MadHound]

316. Oh geez, not that POS website again.

Can't you pit haters find a site that is unbiased and uses actual facts. You are the third poster I've seen in this thread that is trying to pass that site, an anonymous blog, off as some sort of authority.

Let's take a look at the "criticisms" from you POS site about the test.
"Uses photos that do not show the whole dog when body type is much different than a bully breed."
Eighteen of the pictures show the whole dog.

"Uses photos of juvenile dogs that have not developed their breed specific characteristics or size."
Umm, really? Which ones are juveniles? And really now, in the real world there are juvenile and adult dogs, you need to learn to differentiate.

"Uses photos of dog breeds that are rare to non-existant in the United States making it very unlikely that the general public or animal control officers have encountered or ever will encounter these breeds"
Let's see, there are over two million Rhodesian Ridgebacks in the US. Tens of millions of Labrador Retrievers. Five million or so Bull Mastiffs. One million or so Dogue de Bordeau and climbing). And on, and on. Oh, and there approximately three million pit bulls in this country.

And finally, "Inclusion of many examples of similar dogs of three breed types that are known to have been used to develop the pit bull - terriers, bulldogs and mastiffs. The last two are also themselves closely related to each other."
Well D'uh! That is the whole point of the exercise, to show that pit bulls, which are indeed closely related to some other breeds, are hard to distinguish from other breeds! Again, d'uh!

And you know what, I've worked with the Humane Society, pit rescue, and as a vet's assistant. Dogs are misidentified all the time at dog shelters, even by the most experienced. That misidentification will stay with the dog throughout its life, because the new owners won't know anymore, and pass it on to their vet, etc. Or families take in a stray, or adapt it from an individual, and it is misidentified by complete non-experts, and that misidentification gets passed on. Happens much more than you think, not just with pits, but with all breeds. Why the hell do you think you have to have papers, bloodlines, to register a dog with the AKC? Shit happens, quite frequently.

Please, if you're going to try and refute anymore arguments on this thread, please choose a non-biased, fact based site, one which cites actual human beings. Not some biased, anonymous POS blog, OK? You're just making yourself look foolish.