COMMON SENSE ACTION TO

KEEP YOU SAFE

DANGER!
• NEVER Adopt a Pit Bull or mix PIT BULLS
• NEVER allow children or pets near a
pit bull
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• BE ARMED — carry a pistol, taser,
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• IF ATTACKED — put whatever you NationalPitBullVictimAwareness

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• DEMAND your local and state
legislators enact Breed Safety Laws
(BSL)

• RESEARCH pit bull attacks at

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It really is a matter of life and death!

 WARNING: PIT BULL FACTS PIT BULL vs PIT TRUTH
Close proximity to a pit bull puts • Pit Bull attacks are on the rise. Fatal
MYTH TRUTH
you, your family and your pets at and disfiguring attacks by pit bulls Pit bulls were Pit bulls were
great risk of bodily harm. have risen 830% since 2007. “nanny dogs”. bred to fight
other dogs to
• Pit Bulls have KILLED over 500 the death —
Americans, mostly children. Bloodsport.
• Pit Bulls kill their owners and family
Pit bull attacks on pets and people are members more than half of the time. It’s how they are Pit bulls have a
increasing. WHY? Shelters used to be a raised/trained– genetic trait for
filter for public safety and humanely • Pit Bulls are the #1 canine killers of It’s the owner, unpredictable,
other people’s pets and livestock. Pit not the dog... explosive
euthanized pit bulls as inherently
A pit bull will aggression that
dangerous dogs, but in recent years, bulls kill over 38,000 other animals
only attack if cannot be
humane groups have been attempting to every year.
it is trained trained out of
rebrand pit bulls as family friendly pets. to do so… them. No one
• The U.S. Military has banned Pit
Pit bulls are the only breed type that has has to train them
Bulls on military bases due to their to fight; it’s
their own political lobby. Rescue groups
inherent danger. genetic instinct.
and tax payer funded animal shelters
now promote misinformation to the • Delta Airlines has BANNED ALL pit No one can High courts have
public in order to sell/adopt dangerous bulls from flying due to attacks on identify a pit ruled that a
pit bull dogs. passengers and crew. bull without person of
a DNA test “ordinary
America loves dogs, but somewhere • Pit Bull owners are more likely to be intelligence” can
along the way, common sense and irresponsible. identify a pit bull
concern for public safety got lost in the
quest to “save them all”. • Over 900 U.S. cities have enacted
breed safety laws (BSL).
• Pit Bulls were bred specifically for
the purpose of killing other dogs.