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After the NPBVA volunteer urged her to research pit bull attacks and educate herself on their MO, as well as who and where they attack to better protect herself, her family and her vulnerable neighbors, she responded with this:

“Just because I do not agree with you, does not mean you have the right to assume I am uneducated and should “educate myself.” I did read over the fatality lists. I still believe ANY dog is capable of an attack. Before pit bulls were the vicious dogs, it was the German Shepherds, the Rottweilers, and the Doberman’s. Are some pit bulls dangerous and mean? Absolutely. But the same can be said for EVERY breed.



Your argument that pit bulls have been bred for over 300 years to execute the grip, tear and kill bite is weak. Especially given the fact that DNA analysis has proven that dogs commonly identified as pit bulls are often a MIX of multiple breeds. Pit bull is NOT its own breed. The breed of dog that – as you say – was bred to execute the grip, tear and killing bite for over 300 years was NOT the pit bull. It was in fact the Olde English Bulldog (which is no longer around), related to today’s American Bulldog, which is its own breed, not a pit bull. The OEB was originally used in the UK to bait bulls. That was deemed illegal and then in the mid-1830s dog fighting became a replacement.



I leave you with yet another picture of Edgar. And just for the fun of it, here’s a picture of my other dog Samson! Woof!”





Shortly after receiving her misguided emails it was announced on social media that Payton Lyric succumbed to her catastrophic injuries from the savage mauling two days earlier. It was only January 8 and she was already the second American child to lose her precious life from an attack by a pit bull type dog in 2016.