You’re probably thinking, wait a minute…What do pit bulls have to do with music? Shouldn’t the kids be singing songs, learning musical notes, and practicing their scales instead of petting pit bulls?
Probably. But the six-week music camp turned into a pit bull petting zoo, courtesy of Detroit Dog Rescue (DDR.)
Dante Dasaro, a DDR board member and creative marketing director, told kids how to approach a sweet, gentle nanny dog. He instructed them to slowly approach a pit bull, kneel down in front of it, and extend out their hand so the pittie can smell them.
“It’s like their handshake,” he said.
“If you walk by with high energy, your arms flailing, they’ll think you’re a “big squeaky toy,” he added. Right. Or maybe lunch.
“Do not look a dog straight in the eyes for more than three seconds,” Dasaro further instructed the kids. They could “consider that an act of aggression.” Right. Because pitties are so “gentle,” that looking at them for more than a fleeting moment could mean death for the unsuspecting gazer.
Mr. Dasaro also told campers it’s best to walk around in groups, because pitties are such sweet, sociable animals that they’re less likely to attack a group of people than they are a lone individual. Pitties hate to see a person alone so much that sometimes they decide to put a lonely person out of their misery by killing them. Because they’re such sweet, merciful creatures.
Camp director Damien Crutcher said he wants to correct the notion that pits are ”…… man-eaters, they’ll attack you, they kill kids; it’s actually the opposite,” he said. “I don’t think it’s any more dangerous, I just think it’s the way that some of them are raised by their owners.”
“You have a few that raise them for fighting and bad stuff.”
Crutcher said he also believes that pits are forced into fighting, and that it’s not in their nature to be aggressive. Yeah, right. If that were true, then why don’t people train poodles to fight? Or pugs?
My take: I don’t even know where to begin commenting on the idiocy above. It’s one thing to like pit bulls, but entirely another to endanger children by indoctrinating them in the “pits are sweet” myth.
And by the way Mr. Dasaro, pits often attack their victims from behind. So while you’re bowing and kneeling to them as if they’re royalty, they’re charging up behind you, preparing to attack. Or if they’re in front of you, they’ll go for your throat as soon as you bend down.
Did the parents knowingly sign up their kids for this? Maybe they thought their kids would learn about music when they signed them up for “Crescendo Music Camp.” The camp was also called “Crescendo Detroit” in this story, which is so poorly written and reported that it’s hard to make any sense out of it. If the parents thought their kids would learn about music, then I feel sorry for them.
But if they knowingly signed up their kids for this crap, then they should be arrested and charged with child endangerment. And so should DDR members.
I do like the idea of a pit bull summer camp for kids, though. Here is my proposal:
American kids often lack the mathematical skills and scientific knowledge critical to success in the modern world. So why not use pit bulls to teach them these subjects?
Kids could learn about the dangers of pit bulls by calculating the statistical probability of someone being attacked by one. And the probability is even higher for people stupid enough to own them! Statistics are a useful, practical form of math, and this would be a great way to teach it to kids.
As for science, does anyone remember dissecting frogs in sixth-grade science class? Instead of frogs, why not dissect the pit bulls that are euthanized for attacking people? Pittie dissection would be a great anatomy lesson for kids. I’m sure the frogs would approve!
(Dog Haters Unite - Aug 2, 2013)
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