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| The Dog Pit - Or, How To Select, Breed, Train And Manage Fighting Dogs, With Points As To Their Care In Health And Disease - 1888 (History Of Fighting Dogs Series) (History of Fighting Dogs Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard, K. Fox
Publisher: Read Country Books
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 461855
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 52
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.3
ISBN: 1846644488
Dewey Decimal Number: 636
EAN: 9781846644481
ASIN: 1846644488
Publication Date: January 9, 2006
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Product Description
Originally published in 1888, this book is extremely rare and much sought after in its original format. It has now been republished in a modern edition by Read Country Books. Includes 12 black + white wood block print illustrations of famous dogs of the day. It contains a great deal of scarce information on the development of the American Pit Bull Terrier and the pit dogs of the day.Contents Include How to Select, Breed, Train and Manage Fighting Dogs, With Points as to Their Care in Health and Disease (contains) The latest Revised Police Gazette Rules with Portraits of Famous Fighting Canines, and Numerous other Illustrations also, full Account of the Great Battle for the Worlds Championship, between Pilot, of New York, and Crib, of Louisville. By An Expert Of Thirty Years Experience.Keywords: Pit Dogs Famous Dogs Fighting Dogs Pit Bull Terrier American Pit Bull Terrier Illustrations American Pit Bull Police Gazette Country Books Canines Thirty Years Portraits
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 I resign my account. August 19, 2008
Due to Amazon's refusal to remove this book - The Dog Pit - Or, How To Select, Breed, Train And Manage Fighting Dogs, With Points As To Their Care In Health And Disease - 1888 (History Of Fighting Dogs Series) (History of Fighting Dogs Series) by Richard, K. Fox (Paperback - Jan 9, 2006) - I have resigned my account and will not shop at this heartless organization.
PEACE AND LOVE FOR ALL LIVING CREATURES June 24, 2008
Peace and love for all living creatures in this and all the worlds. Stop (ab)using animals and live a healthy life without suffering. WE are ONE. We are the animals and the animals are we. If we hurt them we hurt ourselves. Peace be with you
 Is everyone here insane? June 23, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
While I find dog-fighting horrible, I think this was a fairly interesting read - and a great view into the mind of people who justified the sport and objectified these animals (especially in a time which was much more tolerant of these kinds of sports - so it's even more of a confident "just the way things are" subtext, all about the dog-fighting without apologizing for it). So to start off with, it's ignorant to believe that the only thing that people use a book for are it's intended meanings. Keeping books around, even (perhaps especially) with views we disagree with, is important. To simply not sell a book (or try to pressure a store - by boycott, for example) because we disagree with it is ignorant, and inspires ignorance. It's just totally asinine to feel threatened by knowledge or information that doesn't jive with us.
So yes, I totally disagree with everyone who has a problem with Amazon on this. It's rediculous to say that by selling a book the company is promoting the views of the author and can be identified with those views. If this were true, how could Amazon sell a book on Christian apologetics, and one on the argument for Atheism? Ann Coulter and Noam Chomsky? Francis Schaeffer and Sartre? This isn't a PETA bookstore, it's a bookstore, and part of having a successful bookstore is having as many books as possible (unless you're making a bookstore with a certain view in mind- Communist, Vegetarian, Christian, etc). And part of having as many books as possible is having books which share views or are based on presuppositions which one doesn't agree with.
Back to animals, Amazon also sells books promoting the vegan lifestyle, and nobody complains. Is this where we're at as a society, where we boycott a store just because they sell a book with values we disagree with? You all sound like a bunch of old housewives burning Beatles albums...
And if you really think that selling a book makes one guilty of promoting a certain world-view, that's a shame - because they've been selling "Mein Kampf" here since the beginning, and where were you then? So the truth comes out - you care more about your dogs than Jews!
"Jews? Yeah, that's fine - just don't hurt our wittle puppy-dogs!"
In defense of Amazon June 18, 2008
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I wholeheartedly agree with Nicolaj. First of all, it's not even that easy to find this book using Amazon's search engine. So it can't be said that Amazon's promoting dogslaughter. Second of all, why aren't dog worshipers like Jamie equally concerned about Barnaby Conrad's "How to Fight a Bull"? Or the countless cookbooks featuring recipes for meat? Or the myriad guides on fishing, hunting, guns, and the like? Oh, you say, but cooking meat, fishing, hunting, owning guns, and whatnot are legal. WELL, GUESS WHAT? SO IS SELLING BOOKS, D-BAGS. Get off your high horses. Amazon's clearly in the right here.
If you don't like it, don't buy it April 22, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I disagree with the notion that by selling this book, Amazon is condoning dog fighting. This is just as ridiculous an assumption as saying I necessarily support dog fighting by buying this book - perhaps I am just interested in the history of the sport..how it came about. Or perhaps as an adamant anti-animal cruelty crusader, I'd buy it to educate myself on the topic. People need to stop confusing Amazon.com with their local mom and pop bookseller handpicking novels they like for their valuable and limited shelf-space. This is basically a book warehouse that delivers the largest selection of books at a low price. They are not in the business filtering the books they sell based on whether they like/dislike, agree/disagree with. And I think we need to stop expecting/asking/or caring whether or not amazon filters their books for us. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
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