Around the world there are lots of different purposes for dogs. There are working dogs, like dogs who work on farms and herd animals. There are other type of work dogs to though like ones who work for the police and search and rescue teams. They use their sensitive noses to sniff out missing peoples and hidden objects. A dog’s nose is up to 10,000 more time sensitive than a humans. There are guard dogs. Guard dogs can either guard a business or they can guard you and your family. When we think of guard dogs we think of German shepherds and or of junkyards. Then lastly we just have our lovable furry family member. In a book called the boy who harnessed the wind I learned that all their dogs really eat is mice and table scraps when they have it. He describes how they have never seen a fat dog, only ones so skinny all you can see is their ribs. I couldn’t imagine this, I always see my dogs and others dogs running around fat and healthy. This just shows how fortunate we are.

“Pit bulls are terrible and ferocious animals, that I wouldn’t want my kids or myself around”, is most people’s perception. They just assume that every pit bull out there is going to attack them or someone else. This is not the case though, this is what we call a stereotype, not all pit bulls are mean, and there are plenty of nice and playful pit bulls. Saying that all pit bulls are bad is like saying all Islamic people are terrorist, which is a stenotype, they just could just be a normal person like you and I. Just because this poor animal has a bad reputation and a bad history doesn’t mean that they should be treated like monsters. It’s just like the saying don’t judge a book by its cover. So try to be more mindful of what you say or think about people and animals just because of their race and breed.