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Why do vintage ads and illustrations always depict bulldogs and pit bulls as aggressive, threatening and scary looking?










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Monday, August 10, 2015

It's time to end their reign of terror

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The Bulldog, devoted solely to the most barbarous and infamous purposes, the real blackguard of his species, has no claim upon utility, humanity, or common sense, and the total extinction of the breed is a desirable consummation.—
"BRITISH FIELD SPORTS," 1818.

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