Mrs_APBT_America

Well introduction IMO is more for your dog than it is the owner! Alot of people like to introduce and show pictures of their pit or mix on here. We like to know who we are talking to also, it's not a crime to introduce yourself nor is it a requirement! It just helps us understand the each individual on here! Everyone on here is pretty much friends online therefore being friends we like to know a little about someone!

"Hi, I am a mother of 4 dogs (2 being APBTs and 2 being labs), 2 cats, 2 chinchillas, 2 ferrets, and 3 horses, also a 13 month old daughter! My APBTs are my babies. I adopted Nevaeh and she is 5 months old. She is the pup in my picture to the left! It is nice meeting you 3."

No this isn't AA, BUT it is a pitbull forum therefore we usually introduce are pitbulls, and if you don't have one then that is fine! There are some people in here that don't own pitbulls but they are here to learn more about the breed!

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"BAN THE DEED, NOT THE BREED"

chic4pits

*clap* *clap*
*laughs* funny..

kvndvn6 (Got the BAN STICK)

Hm...so.... this is like a cult?

rgrande (Got the BAN STICK)

My purpose was not to bash anyone. I saw this post and its criticism on PETA's methods, and decided it was my right to include my opinions on the matter. Perhaps I displayed my thoughts in an aggressive manner, but so be it. I AGAIN do NOT support PETA's behind the scene actions, but I felt I should clarify what they stand for and their wholesome protests...since so many people replying to this post attacked their morale.

As for pitbulllover..I understand if you did not personally attack PETA, but I felt the need to defend their magazine article, phone call, and mail delivery. In a world of superficial minds, how else can an extremist animal rights group get their point across? This, hopefully, touches people and encourages them to save a life by adopting.

Who cares if you don't know the background?! If the dog is sweet and kind, then adopt it. If someone asks you what kind of dog, you say I don't know and walk away. Do you HAVE to have an answer? It's the creature in front of you, not the breeds that went into making it.
And I completely disagree with buying because, although those dogs deserve homes too, the money is just supporting the puppy mills where they will continue to abuse and force breed dogs.

Now that's the kind of background you don't want.

And finally...as for introductions...who cares? I saw this and decided to give my input. You should be reading and obtaining my comment rather than worrying when I joined. That was my whole point.

esmith (Got the BAN STICK)

kevdev be nice... or i will beat you with the bat that was supposed to be yours.... so sshhhhh

rgrande (Got the BAN STICK)

That isn't what it stands for at all.
For, I don't know, the TENTH time...PETA is not 100% innocent. Not even close. And I, nor anyone else who has stood by them on here, have agreed with their animal killings. It isn't right, obviously, BUT their protests and accomplishments and what they stand for as a whole are wonderful and noble.
I DO NOT AGREE WITH THE FACT THAT THEY KILL 90% OF THEIR ANIMALS!
I will not support that at all.
BUT, AGAIN, THEY STAND FOR A GREAT CAUSE THAT ALL PET OWNERS COULD VAGUELY APPRECIATE.

chic4pits

our introductions to ppl are just to be nice and say hey, you dont have to post one if you dont want...we just like to know someone is new so we can welcome them..that's all..
oh, and as you stay longer, you'll see we do ALOT of talking and listening..but we respect each others views on here...not bash with foul language(since we are all grown ups on here we can talk like them, not like hot headed kids) ..we are all here for the same purpose, the love our animals (whatever they may be)
esmith: how can you say you are against ANYONE who buys from a breeder? I see and understand that our shelters are in major overload to say the lest..but that's kinda harsh dont you think? You want ppl to listen and respect your view, that means, you listen and respcet theirs, not come outta the gate saying you dont like someone b/c of where thier dog came from. There are ALOT of wonderful ppl on this forum that will help you in the best ways they can, and some have adopted, some bought from kennels, other have both. that shouldn't be an issue, the issuse should be : we are all here for the same cause, to learn, share, advise and above all else try our best to save this wonderful breed.
now with that being said, myself and kolby welcome yall to the fourm, i hope yall do stick around for a while ..sounds like you might have some instering views on things.
o' and renagade ..i dont see what the big deal is about your post, its' ur view.

ericschevy

Not posting an Intro is exactly why you are where you are dumb ass..

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smokey_joe

Want some kool aide?

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Bleu Clair

I know this new member got canned, but I just wanna say what I have to say. People who know me well know I cuss like a sailor. I, therefore, have no problem with foul language, but you don't get a point across by calling someone you don't know a dumb sh*t. If you want to debate a point then fine, everyone has the right to their own opinion, but coming on a pit bull forum, where PETA is not liked because they want to see all pit bulls dead, and insulting a forum member, while defending PETA's actions, will not get your point across well.

Everyone knows that animals die in shelters every day, even people who aren't animal lovers know it. There is already plenty of information on it out there and I am all for educating the public, but a person doesn't need to be offered a body bag to know this. PETA's attempt at shocking people does nothing, but make them look more psychotic than people already view them as.

PETA wants to see the end of all domestic animals and I believe that would include animals in shelters, so I really don't get the point in doing what they did.

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esmith (Got the BAN STICK)

chic4pits: i am not saying that all people that buy from breeders is a horrible person.. but i am against their choice. I think it is wrong to buy from a breeder, puppy mill and/or stupid mall pet stores not only because a lot of those animals parents are mistreated and used to badly until they are decrepit but there are so many animals out there that are not being given homes because the general public seems to have an obsession with making 100% sure without a shadow of a doubt they have a full bred animal. I am all for keeping this beautiful breed strong and their existence never faltering. But I also believe it's up to people like us and even maybe some extremist to bring a halt to breeders and puppy mills that are in it only for the money and do not care to take proper care of their animals. I think that breeders need to be licensed (and maybe they have to be i am not sure i have never been interested enough to buy a full bred) and only a certain amount should be allowed because there is already an overload of breeders as well as adoptable animals that are being euthanized. There needs to be a stop brought to places that mass produce and breed to the point that animals are dying and sick before and even after being purchased.

ericschevy you just sank to his level... congratulations...

Bleu Clair you have misunderstood the whole point rgrande was trying to convey. she already expressed her deepest loathing of the way peta operates during and after her original post. she was just expressing the fact that doing something as shocking as what they did for that ad we both agree to be a somewhat clever way of instilling the ultimate repercussions of buying dogs instead of adopting. we have also already discussed that as inappropriate as her initial bashing was... she still had a good point and later explained in more detail... as have i many times already. the grand point is... we believe this mass breeding needs to have an end brought to it quickly so that perfectly loving and beautiful animals have a better opportunity to be adopted rather than being put down... peta is one of the biggest contributors to this mass euthanization and they are, excuse my language, enormous pieces of sh*t... i hate their action (though i admit i found their ad quite shocking in a successful way) but i believe in what they are supposed to stand for... and that is literally the ethical treatment of animals...

Marty

7 Things You Didn't Know About PETA

1) PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk has described her group’s overall goal as “total animal liberation.” This means no meat, no milk, no zoos, no circuses, no wool, no leather, no hunting, no fishing, and no pets (not even seeing-eye dogs). PETA is also against all medical research that requires the use of animals.

(Ingrid Newkirk is a diabetic and has to use insulin herself) Added by Marty

2) Despite its constant moralizing about the “unethical” treatment of animals by restaurant owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other Americans, PETA has killed over 14,400 dogs and cats at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. During 2005, PETA put to death over 90 percent of the animals it collected from members of the public.

3) PETA has given tens of thousands of dollars to convicted arsonists and other violent criminals. This includes a 2001 donation of $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an FBI-certified “domestic terrorist” group responsible for dozens of firebombs and death threats. During the 1990s, PETA paid $70,200 to an Animal Liberation Front (ALF) activist convicted of burning down a Michigan State University research laboratory. In his sentencing recommendation, a federal prosecutor implicated PETA president Ingrid Newkirk in that crime. And PETA vegetarian campaign coordinator Bruce Friedrich told an animal rights convention in 2001 that “blowing stuff up and smashing windows” is “a great way to bring about animal liberation.”

4) PETA activists regularly target children as young as six years old with anti-meat and anti-milk propaganda, often waiting outside their schools to intercept them as they walk to and from class-without notifying parents. One piece of kid-targeted PETA literature tells small children: “Your Mommy Kills Animals!” PETA brags that its messages reach over 2 million children every year, including thousands reached by e-mail without the permission of their parents. One PETA vice president told the Fox News Channel’s audience: “Our campaigns are always geared towards children, and they always will be.”

5) PETA has used a related organization, the PETA Foundation, to fund the misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a deceptive animal rights group that promotes itself as an unbiased source of medical and nutritional information. PCRM's president also serves as president of the PETA Foundation.

6) PETA runs campaigns seemingly calculated to offend religious believers. One entire PETA website is devoted to the claim-despite ample evidence to the contrary-that Jesus Christ was a vegetarian. PETA holds protests at houses of worship, even suing one church that tried to protect its members from Sunday-morning harassment. Its billboards taunt Christians with the message that hogs “died for their sins.” PETA insists, contrary to centuries of rabbinical teaching, that the Jewish ritual of kosher slaughter shouldn't be allowed. And its infamous “Holocaust on Your Plate” campaign crassly compares the Jewish victims of Nazi genocide with farm animals.

7) PETA has repeatedly attacked research foundations like the March of Dimes, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, because they support animal-based research that might uncover cures for birth defects and life-threatening diseases. PETA president Ingrid Newkirk has said that “even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we would be against it.”

Anyone that thinks they can tell me what I can own, eat, wear is out to take away our rights one thing at a time and I will not sit back and let it happen, I do not will not support any of them

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MADBood

PETA is a slaughterhouse...plain and simple

ericschevy

One know it all after another, did you guys just crawl out from under a rock??

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Sydney

...I hear that is where they typically hide...they usually only come out to stir up trouble...