Stories of pit bull attacks are horrifying and often tragic, but a rep with a local shelter says the public should look at more than just how the dog looks when assigning blame.
On Feb. 7, a pregnant woman was walking with her two small children toward their front door in a Dallas apartment complex when a dog described by police as a pit bull came rushing from behind them, seemingly out of nowhere, attacking the mother as she stood between vehicles in the parking spaces in front of her apartment.
“A lot of these cases we’re seeing, the question has to be asked, what happened before the attack?” said Carlos de Leon, the public relations director for Love Pit Dog Rescue, a local organization specializing in pit bull dogs. “Because I think one of the great truisms around a dog’s behavior is that a confident dog is a calm dog. So when we see dogs acting aggressive, more than often it comes from a place of fear and anxiety, as opposed to a place of confidence.
“Part of the reason I am vehemently against breed bans is that you can’t even prove what they are. We all think we know what a dog is when we look at it, but that’s a visual identification," Jamison said."People way smarter than me, like ridiculously smarter than me, have done studies on this. They are wrong over 50% of the time when they actually do the DNA testing.”
Texas law does allow for dogs to be euthanized for causing serious bodily harm, but the state does not allow cities and counties to establish breed-specific laws. Calls to take sweeping action against pit bull ownership often intensify when nightmare headlines appear more regularly but, de Leon says, whether you know the true breed of the dog or not, the animal deserves to be scrutinized on its own.
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