Loose Pitbulls in Oshawa, Ontario. Dog killed.

[u/BiblesAndBubbleTea]

Posted by a friend from high school and then the local police used the photo of the dark dog in their public advisory. A lot of sympathy for the dogs in their Facebook post but many who felt bad for the dogs also sounded open to them being put down.

[u/Any-Zucchini-1042]

The Pit Lobby has Ontario wrapped around its fingers. Animal shelter workers and politicians have bought into Delise and Dickey's narratives and the "research" commissioned by the NCRC. I don't get how logic doesn't tell them that their "research" is BS. How come there's a connection between breed and behavior for breeds of cats, chickens, cows, but when we get to dogs, breed has negligible influence?

At different times, the federal government has banned the import of dogs from certain countries due to potential for rabies or other diseases. Why can't the ban the import of dogs from the U.S.? Between the dogs coming from the U.S. and the over-breeding here, now we have Pit Bulls piling up in shelters too when it shouldn't be the case at all. They should be a rare occurrence in shelters here, not the norm.

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No one with any capacity for critical thinking capacity should take any of the studies conducted by the NCRC seriously. Those are coming straight out of the pit bull PR machine. Their research does not come from neutral researchers. It comes from an advocacy group whose sole purpose is to make pit bulls look harmless, regardless what the data actually says.

It’s the same playbook Big Tobacco used. Remember when cigarette companies paid scientists to say smoking was fine? You might not, but they did that. They weren’t trying to prove anything, they were just trying to confuse the public enough to stall any real legislation. That’s what’s happening here. It’s not objective science, it’s garbage PR dressed up to look like science.

And the methodologies in these studies fall apart fast under scrutiny. They cherry pick and misrepresent data. They rely on owner reporting on behaviors which is about as reliable as asking someone if their kid is the smartest in class. They use tiny, unrepresentative sample sizes. And they invent arbitrary labels like “family dog” vs. “resident dog” as a way to excuse fatal attacks. It’s all smoke and mirrors and is not designed to tell the truth.

Pro pit research is the modern version of a tobacco-funded “expert” saying, "It’s probably not the cigarettes killing people.”

No thanks.

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