The Dog Pit - Or, How To Select, Breed, Train And Manage Fighting Dogs, With Points As To Their Care In Health And Disease - 1888 (History Of Fighting Dogs Series) (History of Fighting Dogs Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard, K. Fox
Publisher: Read Country Books
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 623322
Media: Paperback
Pages: 52
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.3
ISBN: 1846644488
Dewey Decimal Number: 636
EAN: 9781846644481
ASIN: 1846644488
Publication Date: January 9, 2006
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Product Description
Originally published in 1888, this book is extremely rare and much sought after in its original format. It has now been republished in a modern edition by Read Country Books. Includes 12 black + white wood block print illustrations of famous dogs of the day. It contains a great deal of scarce information on the development of the American Pit Bull Terrier and the pit dogs of the day.Contents Include How to Select, Breed, Train and Manage Fighting Dogs, With Points as to Their Care in Health and Disease (contains) The latest Revised Police Gazette Rules with Portraits of Famous Fighting Canines, and Numerous other Illustrations also, full Account of the Great Battle for the Worlds Championship, between Pilot, of New York, and Crib, of Louisville. By An Expert Of Thirty Years Experience.Keywords: Pit Dogs Famous Dogs Fighting Dogs Pit Bull Terrier American Pit Bull Terrier Illustrations American Pit Bull Police Gazette Country Books Canines Thirty Years Portraits
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 PROTEST Amazon.com Lowest Bar Imaginable December 1, 2008
N. P. Anderson
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Please anyone who remotely has a human heart let Amazon.com know in the strongest possible legal way that you protest their hunger ONLY for profits at the expense of thousands of animals in the USA alone. This is a extraordinary serious violation of any sort of humane treatment of animals.
How dare you Amazon November 21, 2008
J. Craven (Asheville NC)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Amazon, you just lost myself, my family, and all my friends as customers. I will not only boycott you, I will find every opportunity to share what a horrid, repugnant operation you are for profiting from the promotion of dog fighting. You are a heartless and crass corporation.
PS. Your "ethics" line at your corporate offices goes unanswered. It's no suprise.
 Informative viewing point August 17, 2007
T. J. Epps (DCA, LHR, CDG, BER, VCE, ATH, NRT, LAX, CAK, JFK)
20 out of 55 found this review helpful
Like many guides from the earlier eras [on household, gardening, health,
manners] this one shows where our society has been, how it's changed, and
how surprisingly long-standing are some concerns. This book, along with one
I bought on the duty of servants, a Dreiser novel, something on the trials
of Wilde, and an Anonymous novel of sex, vividly reveal how Victorian
sentiment, cloying to me and even morbid, strove to improve sensibilities
even while it diminished the lives of all classes of people and especially
children, not just pit dogs.
The mythos implied about the fighters in praise that attributes human
traits takes for granted their fortune at being exploited under such
expertise. Its servicable writing is confident and detailed, but I can't
tell if it's useful today because I don't know animal husbandry. What is
evident in both the book and some reviews here that admit not reading the
book, is a seemingly contagious emotional ecstasy that, absent thought of
the book's contents, might stem from the same precisely out-of-tune sense
responsible for inspiriting The Dog Pit. This irony arises, now as then,
in an idyllic view of nature that denies of nature whatever contradicts
the pre-conceived moral and cultural ideal.
Just so The Dog Pit chills me a little, with its advising intelligence
every bit as credible as one suggesting Ritalin to reign in unruly boys.
Perhaps this portends how ignorant the next century will deem our extreme
tantrums over abuse of living creatures that oddly overlook the hideous
things done to abused children, literally every minute of each 24 hours,
and with lifelong detriment to society. In its way, this first-hand
history artifact fosters assessment more humane than can an inflamed,
rather than informed, crusade.
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