| The Pit Bull Dilemma: The Gathering Storm : 1000 Annotated Abstracts from Books, Journals, Magazines, Newspapers and Reports |  | Authors: Donald H. Clifford, Kay Ann Green, Ronald M. Watterson
Publisher: Charles Press Pubs
Category: Book
List Price: $65.00
Buy New: $43.16
You Save: $21.84 (34%)
New (7) Used (1) from $43.16
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1584963
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 11.4 x 8.8 x 1.4
ISBN: 091478336X
Dewey Decimal Number: 016.3633
EAN: 9780914783367
ASIN: 091478336X
Publication Date: January 1990
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Shipping: International shipping available
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 A Desperate Attempt at Credibility January 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This compendium of unverified news reports, unpublished opinion pieces purported to be 'abstracts' and other documents is a very weak attempt to provide a foundation for the banning of types of dogs.
Unfortunately, it has no value as a reference work for anyone serious about the issue. While some of the self-styled experts who make unsubstiantiated claims about 'pit bulls' and other types sometimes use it as a reference, this is nothing but a desperate attempt to lend credibiltiy to what is essentially a myth.
The only reason I would recommend this book is if you need it to refute one of the handful of people with credentials who turn to it as a port in a storm.
This one is not for the educated. I rated it as one star because I couldn't give it zero.
Inaccurate - what more can I say? December 30, 2005
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Well, they must not have much to do down at the Medical College of Ohio! Seems these animal researchers decided the best use of tax payers money was to gather together a bunch of news clippings (true or not) and put them in an impressive looking book so people would think they were accurate...
They aren't. I found many glaring errors. For example, one "pit bull fatality" listed as happening in Seattle, Washington never even happened - at all! We've had two Briards kill a woman in Port Orchard, a Siberian husky kill and consume a child in Lacey, a rottweiler kill a young girl that climbed into their yard on the eastside and a rottweiler kill a 5 year old child in Kent - but no pit bulls killing anyone in Seattle!
Many of the reports are for dogs which were later noted to NOT be pit bulls.
This book is a testiment to the kind of waste of our tax payers money that goes on at Universities.
 An invaluale, albeit enormous reference September 4, 2003
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
While it is true that this is an enormous listing of newspaper articles on pit bulls up to 1986, it really is not a waste of time or "trees." This book was a huge help to our law firm while we were obtaining infomation for a case. In fact, it was invaluable as a resource. We tracked many of these abstracts down to their original sources and the reference info was absolutely accurate.This is obviously not meant to be a book that you would sit down to read; it is a reference and a really good one at that. Particularly valuable is the fact that many of the articles are from hard to find or "underground" sources (as well as more mainstream newspapers, journals etc). While it is true that many of the articles report on the negative aspects of this breed of dog (including the cruelty of fighting them), I highly doubt the authors/editors tried to seek out only negative reports. Instead, my quess is that these are the kinds of articles that were being written at the time on which the book reports. In fact, I assume the whole thrust of the book is that during this time, pitbulls had suddenly come into the media eye for all the reasons we all know about: that people fight them, abuse them and cause them to become viscious. Lastly, while the editorial notes are a little brief, they are helpful, often providing the necessary context for the articles. So, in summation, don't be negatively influenced by other reviewers who perhaps didnt understand the purpose of the book. If you need research info on pitbulls, wow is this a jackpot!
One sidded trash. January 1, 2003
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is a very one sidded view of negative news paper and other articles collected that sheds only a bad light on this breed of dog. This type of "journalism" is very dangerous.
wasted trees November 20, 2002
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Eh gads! I hope these people really dont consider themselves authors after this!
|
|
|
Web Design, Maintenance, and Hosted by K9Sites.com | |