What Kind of Pit Do I Have?

YOU DON'T HAVE A DAMN PIT BULL, KAY?

What kind of Pit do I have?

For starters, if you had a Pit Bull, you wouldn't even be asking that question. People who buy Pit Bulls from breeders KNOW they have a Pit Bull. They also know there is only one kind of Pit Bull. Do you ever see anybody asking what kind of Labrador Retriever they have?

What is the only kind of Pit Bull?

The American Pit Bull Terrier is the only kind of Pit Bull. DogBite.org, Animal Rights Activist, STUPID ASS PETA, Cesar Milan, Rescues, ASPCA etc. want you to believe there are different types of Pit Bulls because, THEY'RE UN-FREAKING-EDUCATED! 

People claim all of the time Pit Bulls are a group of breeds that include, but are not limited to, The American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Bull Terrier, BLOCKY HEAD TERRIER, BIG BODIED TERRIER, FAT TERRIER, BLUE BULLDOG TERRIER, REDNOSE TERRIER, GATOR MOUTH TERRIER and so on. If you didn't catch my sarcasm in the last six breeds, I don't know what to tell you. Just cancel your internet subscription service! 

I don't know about you, but I happen to see only ONE breed with the words Pit and Bull in there. The AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER. Pit Bulls can either be classified as Bull breeds or Terriers. The Am Staff Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Bull Terrier can also be classified as a Bull breed or a Terrier. Pit Bull is shorten for American Pit Bull Terrier. Just as the Am Staff is shortened for the American Staffordshire Terrier. Lab is shortened from the Labrador Retriever. 

What is a blanket term?

In this case, Pit Bull is a blanket term uneducated jerks use to describe any breed with a blocky head and muscular body. However, that isn't how blanket terms were intended to be used. Blanket terms are more or less categories. 

Labrador Retriever, Golden Retriever, Chesapeake Bay Retriever etc. have the blanket term, Retriever. 

American Pit Bull Terrier, Jack Russel Terrier, Yorkshire Terrier etc. have the blanket term, Terrier.

Belgian Shepherd, German Shepherd, King Shepherd etc. have the blanket term, Shepherd.

Do you see where I am going here? You don't call a Jack Russel Terrier a Pit Bull. You call it a Terrier. You don't call a Golden Retriever a Labrador. You call is a Retriever. So why are we okay with calling all Bull breeds Pit Bulls? Do you know what that does? That only helps to fluctuate already overly falsified statistics in a way we don't want them to go. By doing that, you are rounding the population to nearly 5 million Pit Bulls in the US. There are only between 70 and 80 million dogs in the US. An average breed of dog has around 200,000 to 800,000 in the US. 

Of course "Pit Bulls" have a higher bite rate. Looking at it that way, of course your chances of being mauled by one is higher than that of another breed. However, take that 5 million and subtract all of the dogs that AREN'T really Pit Bulls. You're left with probably well under 20,000 American Pit Bull Terriers. Yeah, yeah, it is just an estimated number. To be frank, I see around 1 thousand Bullies and Bull breed mixes to every 1 Pit Bull. Whether that number be on google, Facebook, Instagram, real life etc. 

Pit Bulls aren't a common breed. APBT breeders have ALWAYS been selective when it comes to breeding their dogs and with who will own their dogs. The Pit Bull is really a dying breed if you look at the numbers. 

If you're reading this blog, you have obviously read articles with headlines claiming "Family Pit Bull Kills 3 Second Old Baby". They typically show a picture of the 3 second old baby. Then, they have the picture of the dog in question. The dog in question typically looks like a shelter mutt or a damn Bulldog mix. I have YET to see a Pit Bull on the news for mauling anybody. Why is that? Owners of true American Pit Bull Terriers know how to handle their dogs. THAT'S WHY I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY PIT BULLS ON THE NEWS! Duh!

Why do breeders say they have Pit Bulls if they're really not?

Well, for starters, THEY'RE UN-FREAKING-EDUCATED. They are told they have a "full blooded" (Hence the quotations; all dogs are full blooded unless they're bleeding out really badly) blue nose, gator mouth Pit. They then turn around and breed their "full blooded, blue nose, gator mouth Pit" and tell YOU that is what they're called. You now breed your "full blooded, blue nose, gator mouth Pit" and tell your unsuspecting buyers the same. That's how misinformation gets carried along. 

You also have the jerks who know they don't have Pit Bulls but would rather make 5k (*caugh* DDK *ahem*) on a single puppy. So they tell you they have a rare XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL Pit Bull. Well you don't want just ANY Pit Bull. Nooo, you want a RARE Pit Bull. So you have just now spent 5k on either a Bully or a mutt. 

In conclusion, your dog isn't a Pit Bull and you should just stop calling it one. You can't tell by looking at a dog what breed it is. You can't tell by spending time with a dog what breed it is. You can only tell the breed of dog by seeing the papers and having the bloodlines to back it up. I've said this before and I'll say it again, if have papers for your dog and they say Gotty/Gotti/Edge/Razor Edge/REMY, you do not own a Pit Bull, you own an American Bully. An American Bully is not a Pit Bull. It isn't a Bully Pit. It isn't a different class of Pit Bull. It is an American Bully.