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ResidentSadist -> RE: D Pearls got me thinking about pit puppies... (1/12/2013 2:56:33 AM)
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ORIGINAL: ServosCor
...........However, some of us, myself included.......prefer the look of a dog with a cropped ear or docked tail. Are we cruel, bad owners? Oh hell no. 99% of us are over the top in the maintenance of our pets. They have the best of everything. Don't critize people and condemn procedures until you have went thru it and seen for yourself how easy it is on the animal............
I confess that Petey of The Little Rascals was my first Pit Bull love and he was a floppy.
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However, like you, my preference is for the clean cropped look. If it is good enough for Sargent Stubby, it is good enough for me. For those that are not war buffs or do not know about the most famous dog in the world, i'll give you some history.
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Excerpts from Defense Media Network
His paw shook the hands of three presidents, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, and Calvin Coolidge.... Charles Ayer Whipple, the most prominent portrait artist of the day, painted his portrait. General of the Armies John J. Pershing personally decorated him, and he received numerous honors in addition to his wartime awards...
The American Red Cross, the YMCA, and the American Legion all made him a lifetime honorary member, with the YMCA’s membership card stating that it was good for “three bones a day and a place to sleep.” ...
...He became the unit’s unofficial mascot and, amongst other things, was taught how to salute with his right paw... During the sea voyage one of the machinist mates made Stubby a special set of dog tags. Shortly after the unit disembarked at the French port of St. Nazaire, the commanding officer discovered he had an unauthorized member in his ranks. But an earnest plea from Conroy and a sharp salute from Stubby convinced the officer to let the pit bull remain, this time as the unit’s official mascot...
...Once, the area where Stubby’s company was deployed received a pre-dawn poison gas barrage. As soon as his nose scented the first whiff of poison gas, Stubby began raising the alarm, running back and forth through the trench, barking and nipping at the slumbering soldiers. The men awoke in time to don their mask (and fit Stubby with his), and fight off the German attack...
Stubby was not content to remain in the trenches, often accompanying raids and patrols into no man’s land, the region between the opposing armies’ trench lines... Stubby became an expert in finding wounded or dead soldiers during patrols. On one patrol Stubby found something else hidden in some bushes. It was a German spy who had been mapping the American positions. Attracted by canine barking and human cries, the patrol arrived to discover the hapless spy on the ground with Stubby’s jaws clamped onto his backside. One of the soldiers confiscated the German’s Iron Cross and gave it to Stubby as a souvenir. The commanding officer of the 102d was reportedly so impressed by the incident that he “promoted” Stubby to sergeant.
Google Sgt Stubby for dozens more stories, too many to even summarize here.
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