This is a great video about work that is being done in Chicago to encourage young men in the inner city to take pride in their pit bull type dogs for reasons other than their fighting ability. Hat tip to Mac's Gang at Barking Mad for pointing to this. I'm going to post it here too (sorry Mac), just because I think it's really important for a lot of people to see this.
The video features Tio Hardiman, who was a guest speaker at last year's Canine Legislation Conference that we held here in Kansas City. He's running a great program in Chicago and it's great to see some of the video of what's going on up there.
On another note, we're also starting another session of "Pit Bull University" here soon -- I'll post the details once we get this all worked out. PBU is our Kansas City version of helping high risk dog owners (we welcome all breeds) with basic obedience training.
This is a FANTASTIC video, Brent! Thanks! Tio Hardiman is a true AMerican Hero! It is a must watch for all of us who look down upon some very rough dog owners, and how receptive and proud they have become of new their new ways of viewing their companionship and activities w/ their dogs and how much they are enjoying the love --- dogs that they used to fight.
Posted by: Becky | April 29, 2008 at 10:43 PM
Amen.These poor dogs surfer badly, it makes me cry just sitting here typing you, and putting a blog on myspace.com I also have it on yahoo.com. I hope you and others don't mind if I borrow your information. Hopefully this fun and loving dogs well live without cruelety and abuse.
Posted by: Rona | January 04, 2009 at 02:51 AM
Touching video,, Thanks for sharing this, it touch my heart.. Hope people out there learn a lesson from your post.
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