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Pit's Letter | 
 enlarge | Author: Sue Coe
Publisher: Running Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 337895
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 48
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 7 x 0.3
ISBN: 1568581637
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781568581637
ASIN: 1568581637
Publication Date: June 21, 2000
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Product Description
Like a latter-day Goya, Sue Coe is driven to create moral works, from stark renditions of slaughterhouse brutality to accounts of abused domestic animals and laboratory testing. In Pit's Letter, a hapless canine describes her desolate life to her only surviving sister. She recounts her puppyhood and upbringing in her human family, her heartless banishment, and finally her suffering and death at the hands of the experimenting scientists at Eden Biotechnology. Ironically, her former master winds up in the same situation: an accidental scratching infects him with a pathogen - and man and beast share the same fate.
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 a horrendous book January 15, 2006
2 out of 15 found this review helpful
If you want to get overly depressed, this is the book for you. the illistratoins have blood, guts, fighting, and other seans that are overly depressing. this book shoes cruelty to animals. the book does deathning experiments on the animals. Some of Its experements are prying dogs mouths open until they bleed, or cutting animals' vocal cords so they can't cry when they are doing other experiments. I relized that this book is trying to point out that cruelty to animals is happenning, but this bookis very disturbing and out of a dark place!
 Pay attention to the message December 16, 2004
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I have read some reviews on this site, and have to say that many are missing the point of this work.The work was based on Hogarth's Four Stages of Cruelty. The topics that are covered are not just about pit bulls or their reputation, or about human to animal cruelty. While those are the the main reasons many buy this book, pay attention to the other messages that are being sent here. This book discusses vivisection, spousal abuse, gang rape, and the downfall of a human being. It shows the results of an abusive childhood on one particular boy, who in turn learned that torturing the weak was acceptable. His father (an abusive and angry person) separates him from his dog because the dog couldn't prove herself in the hunting sport, and leaves her behind. The boy has now lost his only source of comfort and morals, and grows up with out them. He goes on to rape a mentally disabled girl "because she'll never tell" and then become a scientist who's colleagues tortures the very animal that he found his only solace in as a child. The irony is in the fact that he contracts a deadly virus from an animal that he tortures and dies in very much the same fashion as his beloved dog. There are many places online where you can research this artists work. It's not just about the Pit bull, or animal cruelty, or any one subject at all. It covers a plethera of difficult topics that are meant to invoke emotions and make people think. I am a proud owner of two pit bulls and I am glad that I checked out this book, as it covers so much more than I ever expected.
Finding Empathy... April 29, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book was not just a story about the pit bulls "misconception" but of human "misconception". I have always believed that man was put on earth to take care of animals, not act like one. This book explores just how far humans will go to attain dominance and superiority over anyone or anything they deem "weaker"...I loved the book and plan to give it as gifts to all I feel "know what empathy might be".
 USELESS DRIBBLE February 26, 2004
1 out of 27 found this review helpful
Nothing but stereotypical bull plop. If you really want to know anything about the breed read any of Richard Stratton's books, they are pretty good. This book and the "author's" views are scandalous (scandal sell my friend) at best and a great disservice to these noble creatures and the responsible owner of this breed who has to put up with the prejudices or our society. Beleive it or not, not all pitbull owners are dirt bags or lowlifes.
Hyperbolic animal rights fantasies gone wild February 16, 2004
3 out of 34 found this review helpful
Sue Coe has no equal but is beloved by animal rights radicals for her jaundiced, human-hating view of life on earth. To her all humans are evil and savage, even the good people are tainted. All animals are innocent victims tortured by humanity. What's scary is not what you see in Sue Coe's overheated imagery, but the fact that many young people are captivated by her gothic vision and take it for gospel truth. The stereotypical caricatures of dog fighters are a joke. We all know that every animal abuser goes on to hurt people, too. Right. Whatever. Sue Coe really despises people, and that's sad. She invokes just about every animal rights cause in this small book, including a feverish slam at deer hunting, which seemed totally gratuitous and unwarranted in a book supposedly focussing on pit bulls. I got this book from Amazon because I own a pit bull. I knew better than to expect a fair and balanced picture from Sue Coe, though.
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