Showing posts with label 1909. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1909. Show all posts
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Emerson, essays and bulldogs
We can help ourselves to the modus of mental processes only by coarse material experiences. A knife with a good spring, a forceps whose lips accurately meet and match, a steel-trap, a loom, a watch, the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception, like Franklin or Swift or Webster or Richard Owen, and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts or shares experiences like theirs. 'T is like the impression made by the same stamp in sand or in wax. The way in which Burke or Sheridan or Webster or any orator surprises us is by his always having a sharp tool that fits the present use. He has an old story, an odd circumstance, that illustrates the point he is now proving, and is better than an argument. The more he is heated, the wider he sees ; he seems to remember all he ever knew ; thus certifying us that he is in the habit of seeing better than other people ; that what his mind grasps it does not let go. 'T is the bull-dog bite; you must cut off the head to loosen the teeth.
MEMORY. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 12 (Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers) [1909]
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Sunday, December 18, 2011
More maulings
The dogs are registered and among the finest of their kind in the country.
Deseret Evening News, June 21, 1910
One of those viscous collie attacks that the media ignores.
The Washington Times, May 1, 1911
The animal defied all efforts to drive him off and had his teeth sunk into the arm of the elder Ahert when he was killed with an axe. It was necessary to pry open his jaws from the arm of the victim, who had become unconscious.
New York Tribune June 29, 1909
Monday, December 12, 2011
Usefulness of America's Dog
"If a brindle bull terrier hates you, either go far away or kill the dog. These dogs are useful in their own work and place, which is far from a city."
But not too far away from civilization. You want people to be able to hear you scream. The families of Cheryl Harper and Ed Gierlach know the importance of this.
New York Times, December 19, 1909
Sunday, December 11, 2011
The most significant DBRF in american history
February 3, 1909...The Fountainhead of the "American" Pit Bull Terrier,
John P. Colby is defeated and his two year old nephew is killed by one of his breeding animals.
7 months later he would co-found the American Dog Breeder's association.
In 1935 he would finally persuade the AKC to accept Pit Bulls under the regal sounding Staffordshire brand.
This is the most significant DBRF in American History and it's show how the Pit Community is run by sociopaths. He should have been run out of the community and stripped of registry privileges instead of being worshipped.
* note the killer is referred to as a Boston Terrier.
dogsbite.org
craven desires
The Sun, NY, NY, February 03, 1909
The Dog Fancier, Colby ad 1911
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