Carole Pearson, founder of the Dawg Squad speaks out against recent comments by Chris Rock and Jay Leno.  The celebrities offended dog lovers and animal rights groups alike with their controversial comments about Michael Vick.

 

An excerpt from the Los Angeles Times article:

 

The Dawg Squad and other like-minded rescue groups "fight every day to make people sensitive to the plight of pit bulls and bully breeds in general," Pearson continued.  But it's an uphill battle to make the general public understand that members of this often-demonized breed are typically gentle and affectionate by nature and only become fighters through human interference, she added -- and comments like Rock's and Leno's certainly aren't helping matters. 

 

"These dogs are so in-tune to people that they will do anything their person asks ... even fight," Pearson said. "It's been said before and I'll say it again ... the problem is not pit bulls.  It's the people who have them and treat them as if they were not 'real dogs,' just items for disposal."