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Post by catstina on Jan 5, 2011 10:17:55 GMT -5
I found this page through a mutual friend and it made me very nervous. This woman has started her own rescue, but charges no adoption fees because she wants to be "Truly Nonprofit." She also attempts to advocate for Pit Bulls through an album on her personal page (which actually has some great vintage pictures) but seems rather uneducated about the breed. What do you all think?www.facebook.com/pages/INsight-Animal-Rescue/156968174321902?v=wallMission: Insight rescue is not gonna save the world but wants to improve it one amazing animal at a time. Company Overview: INsight Animal Rescue is a brand new Animal rescue located in the southern California , Los Angeles area. Created by Mia Anelli, A professional photographer and independent animal rescuer. She intends to keep INsight rescue just as she was, a non-profit rescue and hopefully can run complete on private donations and Adopter donations. Out of nowhere there's INsight? not exactly while INsight is in the process of applying for 501 status... Mia has been fostering and pulling animals on her own for a while now. Besides working part time in a studio city vet , and as a professional entertainment industry photographer ,she has been able to rescue many animals from Los Angeles shelter and place them quickly into loving homes. Not breed particular or cute dog inclined she tries to pull out the animals who need it the most. She provides every animal she pulls out of the shelter with medical attention if needed and grooming, almost always needed, and INsight rescue wont be any different. On her personal Facebook page she has an album called "pitbulls and other misunderstood breeds...things you should know." One of the descriptions under a photo is: www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1754916748493&set=a.1754710223330.2100806.1106173062&pid=32060646&id=1106173062The pit bull apologia would have you believe that their fighting bred dogs are just like any other dog in many ways, but so superior in their unparalleled love and devotion for children they were commonly known as "The Nanny Dog" throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. If pit bulls are held in low esteem today, it is only due to ignorance and the gullible acceptance of biased news reporting because, once upon a time, pit bulls were the most beloved dog in England and the United States. A google search brings up 77,100 results for the term "nanny dog." While some sites bestow the Nanny Dog mantle on the American Pit Bull Terrier or the American Staffordshire Terrier and some lead you to productions of Peter Pan, most of the results lead you to 21st century blogs and news articles about the Staffordshire Bull Terrier. text from thetruthaboutpitbulls.blogspot.com/2010/08/nanny-dog-myth-revealed.htmlThat link is to an anti-Pit Bull site and she is using it to promote understanding of pit bulls!? Her heart is in the right place, but this really makes me nervous!!
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Post by catstina on Jan 5, 2011 10:31:52 GMT -5
Blech!! Here are some of the comments on her album: Emma Tyler Mia ~ one of my FB friends would like to know if you have this in email format? She would like to post it on her blog. Haley Bonilla The breed is so misunderstood. Loved educating potential adopters how loyal and loving the breed is. I have a pitbull mix. My boyfriend has a 100 lb red nose who is the biggest baby that has such expressive eyes. Working at an animal hospital all the potential and landed dog bites were from small dogs. Erik Lunburg Great sentiment but Pitbulls aren't a breed, but rather a term used to describe a collection of breeds. We have a Pit mix also (let's be honest, every Pit is a mix). Tie Doggi Excellent page. I've shared on our StopK9Profiling page. If you have a second, please go to our site www.stopk9profiling.com and sign the letter to MPPs to state you oppose BSL. Again, great work! www.facebook.com/album.php?fbid=1754710223330&id=1106173062&aid=2100806 |
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Post by RealPitBull on Jan 5, 2011 10:33:23 GMT -5
What the..........????? I don't get what she's trying to do/say with that description and link to that blog?????
The term Nanny Dog really IS misapplied to Pit Bulls, but people keep repeating it over and over again, and it has turned into part of the new Pit Bull mythology: made up/misapplied/exaggerated facts that are supposed to be pro-Pit Bull, yet are myths nonetheless.
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Post by sugar on Jan 5, 2011 10:42:48 GMT -5
"Erik Lunburg: Great sentiment but Pitbulls aren't a breed, but rather a term used to describe a collection of breeds. We have a Pit mix also (let's be honest, every Pit is a mix)."
Oh dear lord...
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Post by RealPitBull on Jan 5, 2011 10:49:41 GMT -5
"Erik Lunburg: Great sentiment but Pitbulls aren't a breed, but rather a term used to describe a collection of breeds. We have a Pit mix also (let's be honest, every Pit is a mix)." Oh dear lord... I want to stab forks in my eyes every time I read something like this. |
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Post by shay19 on Jan 5, 2011 10:58:44 GMT -5
Oh lord... hopefully it won't but it seems like more harm than good can come from this. From looking at the pictures in her profile that you posted it seems she's trying to sure coat the breed (almost every caption was about "nanny dogs" or at least the majority of them were).
She is also sending mixed feelings about the breed (at least that's what I got from it) by posting the anti-pit bull site. That right there to me shows she doesn't understand the breed and she also doesn't really know what information she's putting out there.
Kind of scary in my eyes, I just really hope it turns out better than it looks like it's going to.
I'm also really starting to get irritated with the "nanny dogs", "it's all how you raise them", "I have a 100+ pound pit bull at home", and the red nose/blue nose crap. It's getting to the point (for me anyway) that I feel like people are outright stupid.
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Post by emilys on Jan 5, 2011 11:08:28 GMT -5
it's one of those pretty pink girls with pitties things that we've talked about as being so dangerous for our dogs.
I HATE HATE HATE the "nanny dog" crap. It's not even remotely true; people just repeat b.s. mindlessly. Who even USED the word "nanny" in the USA until very recently? and NEVER EVER with a pit bull. Supposedly it's a term the English use for Staffordshire bull terriers, but I can tell you that the SBT folks I've "met" on a mostly-UK forum HATE it because it implies that Staffords can always be left alone with the kiddies (which they don't recommend any more than we do with our dogs)
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Post by RealPitBull on Jan 5, 2011 11:32:49 GMT -5
Emily's post reminds me of another point that needs to be made: while I enjoy pix of kids and dogs as much as the next, it really irks me to see toddlers draped all over dogs with "lookit my pitbull, its the Nanny Dog, you know!" captions.
Not to mention it's another case of "it's not a breed" but "here is some breed specific info" craziness.
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Post by Dave on Jan 5, 2011 11:43:35 GMT -5
Oh. my. god.
I know her heart is big, and what she's doing is really good, but she really needs an education.
I really hate the "pinking" of the breed that's the trend now. All fuzzy and nice, everyone should get one. Most of the so called pit bulls being adopted are not even close to the breed standard and temperament it's not even funny, but there's still the chance for animal aggression, and even the staff at my shelter is guilty of pinking... they wince if I'm educating adopters sometimes. Even so, the dogs are generally high energy, athletic and strong mentally and physically.
I'm afraid it's a freight train that cannot be stopped. It's all nice until someone gets run over.
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Post by RealPitBull on Jan 5, 2011 11:57:03 GMT -5
Dave, you always have the best way of saying things!
LOL @ "the pinking of the breed"
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Post by catstina on Jan 5, 2011 12:17:12 GMT -5
Dave, that was very well said!
She just doesn't seem to know very much about the breed at all. It looks like she just did a Google search of "Nanny Dog" and posted the first thing she saw, which was written by an anti-pit website! She clearly didn't even notice or she wouldn't have posted it! An other thing that really annoys me about her posts is her terrible grammar! Don't get me wrong, I make grammar mistakes all the time, but I really think when you are trying to post something educational you need to avoid grammar mistakes. I think that it makes her look unintelligent and uninformed!
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Post by emilys on Jan 5, 2011 12:43:26 GMT -5
Dave, you always have the best way of saying things! LOL @ "the pinking of the breed" might be stealing that one... ;D ;D |
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Post by maryellen on Jan 5, 2011 14:01:46 GMT -5
most of the rescues that are popping up now are trying to capitalize on the breed since they are always in the media.. they see it as the "save them all they all deserve a home" and "oooh pooor pitties ooohhhh sooooo abused". its really sickening, and i just wish they would all just go away and rescue little evil yap yap dogs instead..
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Post by Dave on Jan 5, 2011 14:51:29 GMT -5
most of the rescues that are popping up now are trying to capitalize on the breed since they are always in the media.. they see it as the "save them all they all deserve a home" and "oooh pooor pitties ooohhhh sooooo abused". its really sickening, and i just wish they would all just go away and rescue little evil yap yap dogs instead.. I know! It's, like, FASHIONABLE to do pit rescue now. I wonder how it'll work out in the future, if it'll be like greyhound rescue. Which, BTW, is another breed that shouldn't be allowed in dog parks. No offense to GH owners, but I feel sorry for the little mutts getting chased. Years ago I used to help out a one woman APBT rescue out of Pattenburg. Ten years and she burned out, because she was placing the real deal; it took a great toll on her. The myriad of pit mixes getting rescued now are easy compared to that. |
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Post by maryellen on Jan 5, 2011 15:27:18 GMT -5
dave was that one woman rescue the one who wrote Friends of Terriers newsletter and who lived on route 57 somewhere near phillipsburg area ? i forgot her name, but there was one woman i dealt with years ago, she wanted me to go evaluate a dog at newark , so i drove to her house and then she drove us to the newark shelter to do the evaluation. i forgot what her name was, but she did it all herself
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Post by Dave on Jan 5, 2011 16:38:12 GMT -5
Yep, Jeanne Balsam. I printed every issue of that newsletter on the sly where I worked. I might still have copies.
Jeanne worked so hard at that rescue, it killed her to stop. I really admired her resolve and love of the dogs.
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Post by sugar on Jan 5, 2011 16:48:10 GMT -5
"Erik Lunburg: Great sentiment but Pitbulls aren't a breed, but rather a term used to describe a collection of breeds. We have a Pit mix also (let's be honest, every Pit is a mix)." Oh dear lord... I want to stab forks in my eyes every time I read something like this. Silly Mary...its not YOUR eyes you are suppose to stab  |
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Post by michele5611 on Jan 5, 2011 16:55:05 GMT -5
Wait what you mean pit bull is a breed?!  |
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Post by maryellen on Jan 5, 2011 19:45:24 GMT -5
thats her!!!!!!!!!!! jeanne!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by catstina on Jan 6, 2011 10:15:54 GMT -5
Dave, your new avatar is throwing me off. I keep thinking, "who is that??" It's cute, though, I like it!
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