Game Dog Guardian. It’s Our Turn To Fight For Them.

Find the Pit Bull Owner Game!

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You’ve heard it all before.  “Pit bulls are only kept for one reason…” or “I don’t understand why anyone would want to own a pit bull…” or “only criminals and drug dealers own pit bulls…” Game Dog Guardian has long maintained that communities’ efforts to regulate pit bulls are just thinly veiled attempts to regulate the “class” of people that are perceived to be pit bull owners.  Be it racial, economic or other bigoted perceptions, pit bull owners are often lumped into one group and assumed to be social miscreants of one kind or another.  For some reason it is hard for many people to wrap their heads around the idea that most pit bulls are good, sound dogs and most pit bull owners are responsible, decent citizens.

Whether it is Jeff Norgrove, of the City of Sterling Heights Citizen Advisory Committee and Neighborhood Stabilization Program saying:

"We need to immediately ban pit bulls and not include a grandfather clause for people who already own pit bulls.  We have inner city people who bought homes here ... They don't need to bring their pit bulls here.”

…Or Representative Vincent A. Pedone, of the Massachusetts State House saying, “These dogs are kept specifically for fighting or as weapons, and I don't think they have any place in civilized society."

…Or the city of Lancaster, CA targeting Pit Bulls and Rottweilers with Breed Specific Legislation because they are “favored by gang members.”

…Or the Supreme Court of Ohio stating, “It is a ‘well-known fact’ that pit bulls are ‘unpredictable, vicious’ creatures owned only by ‘drug dealers, dog fighters, gang members,’ or other undesirable members of society.”

All of these statements belie the real motivation for Breed Specific Legislation:  “pit bull” owners.

Saying that all pit bulls are bad dogs and that all pit bull owners are gang members, drug dealers or dog fighters seems as silly as saying that all labs are good for hunting and not much else and all lab owners are hunters, or that all mastiffs are good for guarding property and killing people in battle and not much else and all mastiff owners are Roman Centurions who bravely defend us from the tribes and hordes of the outside world. 

We thought the “Find the Pit Bull Game” did a great job of showing how hard it is to judge a breed (let alone a mixed breed) by the way it looks.  We put our twist on the issue with our “Find the Pit Bull Owner Game.” 

So put your racial, ethnic, economic and social preconceptions on hold and see if you can guess who is a pit bull owner from our lineup!

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