Things that, as a pit-type owner, I really hate reading online #1

I get it, Ste11aeres, the implication is painfully clear, and I feel the hurt.

Something perhaps a little off-topic occurred to me as I was rereading this. There's actually a problem in the breed's name itself.

I suspect, but can't prove, that dog attacks only became news when more breeds were popularized, and when the population of dogs increased. They were once the favorite pet in America, allegedly. A rise in population means a rise in the risk of attack, a rise in risk means a rise in numbers, and suddenly it becomes important to find a scapegoat--it can't be about dogs, it must be about a kind of dog (and the kind of person who would own such a dog).

It's easy to notice when dogs that can be and have been used as fighting and guard dogs also become implicated in attacks. But there's only one breed that I know of whose very name combines all the elements needed for sound bites: two negative nouns, both associated with blood and violence, and short, sharp, hard consonants that sound like the word they're found in.

Pit bull.

Gypsies have a rule about cursing. Curses often rhyme and use short words, because it makes it easier for the curser to remember, and harder for the target to forget.

I feel badly, because this is a thorn in your side that is not going to go away, even though the #1 breed associated with dog attacks in the survey I read recently was...German shepherd. (Don't tell Warmheart. )