My "Babysitter"

I can't tell you how much we ALL love this dog. Bezo is so patient, tolerant, and loving to the kids.

If I get a killer migraine, he senses it...and wants to be right beside me. I think he is just wanting to help me feel better.

He is such a sport when it comes to them dressing him up:)

And not to mention, a very handsome boy!

Hard to believe that I rescued him from a pound, with his front right leg so mangled he had NO use of it. He's been through 3 major surgeries and came so close to amputating it on numerous occasions. He had been discarded like trash...and he is part of my family. Unfortunately, our society has demonized his breed, and in turn they are treated in the worst way. I don't know when America will wake up and realize that it is NOT the breed...it is the PEOPLE that beat, abuse, neglect, and starve these dogs to death. Bezo could have been one of them, and that breaks my heart. So please, take a minute to read this short article below. Open your mind to a new way of thinking, and the possibility of learning something you probably didn't know.

FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS AMERICANS KNEW PIT BULLS FOR WHAT THEY DID BEST. BABYSITTING.

Posted on May 4, 2011 by YWGROSSMAN

Astoundingly, for most of our history America’s nickname for Pit Bulls was “The Nanny Dog”. For generations if you had children and wanted to keep them safe you wanted a pit bull, the dog that was the most reliable of any breed with children or adults.

The Nanny Dog is now vilified by a media that always wants a demon dog breed to frighten people and LHASA-APSO BITES MAN just doesn’t sell papers. Before pit bulls it was Rottweilers, before Rottweilers it was Dobermans, and before them German Shepherds. Each breed in it’s order were deemed too vicious and unpredictable to be around people. Each time people wanted laws to ban them. It is breathtakingly ironic that the spotlight has turned on the breed once the symbol of our country and our national babysitter.

In temperance tests (the equivalent of how many times your kid can poke your dog in the eye before he bites him) of all breeds the most tolerant was the Golden Retriever. The second most tolerant was the pit bull.

Pit Bull’s jaws do not lock, they do not have the most powerful bite among dogs (German Shepherds have that honor) they are naturally neither human or animal aggressive (in fact pit bull puppies prefer human company to their mother’s two weeks before all other dogs), and they feel as much pain as any other breed (accidentally step on one’s toe and you’ll see).

The most tolerant, patient, gentle breed of dogs is now embarrassingly portrayed as the most dangerous. It would be funny if the new reputation did not mean 6,000 are put to death every day, by far the highest number of any other breed euthanized.

That’s a lot of babysitters.

(Pictured: As you’ll see, from the richest to the poorest and everything in between, in America the pit bull was the dog for kids.)