If you weren't convinced before about PETA's anti Pit Bull
stance, here's a little article written by the founder herself that should help
you see the light about this organization with a VERY anti Pit Bull agenda.....

Note** Newkirk states below that she has been rescuing Pit
Bulls from horrid situations for 25 years. What she doesn't tell you is what
happens to those dogs after she rescues them - they are euthanized.....

http://petakillspets. com/

Save suffering pit bulls by curtailing breeding....
By Ingrid E. Newkirk....

Updated: 01/28/2009 07:40:38 PM PST....

AS someone who has spent 25 years rescuing pit bulls from
conditions we wouldn't visit on our worst enemies, I applaud the city of
Lancaster's adoption this week of an ordinance requiring all pit bulls to be
spayed or neutered.....

Pit bull breeding bans truly are needed to protect the
public as well as the pit bulls themselves, probably the most abused breed in
dogdom.....

Through no fault of their own, pit bulls have become the dog
of choice for people who don't know or care about dogs and who want this
particular dog only because a pit is a "macho" possession - a
reflection of the image they want for themselves.....

Most of these dogs live on chains - if you can call it
living - attached to a stake, metal drum or dilapidated doghouse. To make them
"mean," they are often starved and beaten. They are not social, or if
they are, they are not to be trusted around children or other animals,
especially small ones. They are hardheaded by nature and suffer the brunt of
that trait, too, by being treated abominably.....

PETA's staff has cared for a mother pit who weighed about a
third of what she should have weighed - her hip, back and rib bones protruding.
We euthanized her worm-infested, scared-to-death, unsocialized young pups. If
someone wants a puppy, there are more than enough other puppies to choose from
in local shelters - ones who will not have to go through an ordeal to be socialized.....

dragged her wherever he wanted to go on his small chain,
periodically turning to attack her. She was as sweet a being as anyone could
ever want, or so it seemed, but she was no sweeter or more deserving of a home
than all the dogs on Death Row in shelters. Also wonderful was the male pit we
found in this same yard with his chain embedded into his festering neck. The
family had two more pits, and they wished to breed them and sell the pups.....

This story was not unusual. We were not surprised. We also
had two huge, strong "bruiser pits," as we call them, in our custody
who were so difficult to handle that only a very strong person could walk them,
one at a time.....

They came from a yard where they lived on chains, and after
we sterilized them (free of charge in our clinic), they had to go back there.
They will die on those chains one day, and they are dangerous. They are fine
around adult humans, but they get fixated on any small dog or cat and work as a
pair if they can, equally excited and unmanageable. This is not unusual for
pits. If I said this about a collie or a beagle, it would be surprising.....

Please consider this: It is safer for other dogs and for
small children to have a chance encounter with a poodle, cocker spaniel or
mixed hound than it is for them to have one with a pit bull. Of course, that's
a generalization, but it's also true.....

If you had a Chihuahua or a child and someone said,
"Behind Door A is a pug or a Labrador, and behind Door B is a pit; you
choose which door we will open," which door would you choose? Right.....

So, knowing that pits and pit mixes are responsible for more
attacks than other dogs - not just fatal attacks, but ones in which an eye or
limb or self-confidence is lost for life - is it right to suggest that people
should continue breeding this kind of dog? Especially when other wonderful dogs
are crying out for homes?....

There are more reasons for pit bull breeding bans, but these
are just a few.....

Ingrid E. Newkirk is the president and founder of People for
the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which can be reached via www.PETA.org.