My neighbourhood

Posted on October 16, 2008
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I live in an apartment with a friend on the edge of a very rich neighbourhood. Its bad enough that the houses are all enormous and everyone owns land rovers but do they have to be ignorant about pitbulls as well?

Yes they do!

Every day I walk my dog some stupid person purposefully crosses the street to avoid her. Not only are they being extremely rude, they are also being outwardly close minded and ignorant. I of course take every opportunity to walk up to people and their dogs without them noticing or when they cant get away from us, just my little way of making people question their ignorance. Like in today’s case, a woman couldn’t get across traffic to get away from me. When we finally reached her (just walking down the sidewalk like we have the right to do as normally as any other owner and dog) she was halfway in the street (while on her cellphone of course). I asked her “what exactly is the problem?” because she made some snide comment on the phone about my dog. She said “i dont want your dog to attack my dog”. I said “what would make you think she would have any interest in doing that?”, her response, “because its a pitbull, that’s what they do.” as Chena just looked at her and the other dog completely calm, not even excited to meet her dog let alone angry. She had now gotten around me and was walking off when I said “that’s just ignorance, you have no idea what you’re talking about”. She responded with some other derogatory statement about pitbulls and continued to walk away when a man from somewhere said “actually pitbulls are some of the sweetest dogs Ive ever met”. I dont really remember what happened after that, a little more yelling and the guy stayed and talked to her about something. I knew if I stayed she would be all freaked out about my dog while she had her dog and it would be impossible to convince her of anything, and she’d keep yelling.

If id stayed and proved to her than Chena wouldn’t hurt her stupid dog, or anything.. would it have made a difference? Do people like that, people dumb enough to believe everythign they hear on tv, ever change their minds? If someone can be in their 40s and still be so ignorant about something like that, will they ever change?

I don’t know really… its hard for me to believe there’s hope for them, enough hope that rich bastards like her or her husband the senator wont pass laws against dogs like mine… Since the rich really control everything and hardly any of them own pitbulls or rottweilers and therefore know nothing about them.

seems so pointless to try sometimes..