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He was a 26-year-employee of Aurora Co-op in 2003 working alone on a crumblizer machine that turned pellets into feed for chickens. It had plugged up and he was climbing down the ladder after clearing the plug when the ladder scooted out and his coat tangled in the machinery. He was pulled in and spent nearly an hour in the machine before anyone noticed he was missing. He said it was several more hours before rescuers were able to extract him. "He was painted blue on the top, red on the bottom, pink on the tail that we had to cut off," Evaretts said, adding the veterinarian and police told them Bandit likely had been used as a "bait dog" to train pit bulls to fight. He said they started working right away on Bandit's health and behavior. "That took quite a while." Use your real name. If you aren't willing to post your name, don't post your opinion. If it's not good enough to have your name by it, it's not good enough for anyone else to read. We read EVERY comment before it is posted. This may take a while. Relax. If you don't see your comment right away, don't worry. We'll read it, make sure it doesn't break the rest of these rules, and then post it. It won't happen right away. Be nice. This is a civil conversation. You don't have to agree, but don't be mean. No name calling, profanity, hate speech, personal attacks, threatening or violent comments, sexually explicit or crude comments, or anything just plain rude. A good point doesn't need to include calling someone a "moron" or "white trash". Be factual, as much as you can. Don't throw out comments you can't verify. Don't spread rumors or lies. That doesn't help anyone. And don't throw any libel out, either.

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Writing for Students: Research Paper on Dog Fighting

As many of you know, there is a law in the city of Denver that states specifically: not pitbulls. Yet no one has really taken the time to investigate the reasons behind the law and whether they are really reasonable or not. I am here to do just that today. This law was made for a good reason, to protect the people from a dog that can very well kill any human being without a gun any time it decides to do it. But we must not let our emotions guide our legal system. If we did that, who knows what kind of mess we would be in today. There are many things in life that are dangerous and that we need to be protected from, but we must ask whether the government is overstepping its authority in the name of good will. According to a recent article in Maxim magazine, an interesting statistic shows that you are more likely to die from a deadly plant than from an attack by a dog. But dog attacks touch us in a place that plants, car accidents and the like do not because a dog is often seen as a member of our family, a sweet lovable creature that would never do anything to hurt someone. Dog attacks do happen, and when they happen in a very awful way, the press likes to make a big issue out of it because it gets our attention. With the intention of trying to stop damaging dog attacks, the legislature of Denver has decided to focus in on a specific breed of dogs that they feel are causing most of the problem. At a glance, it would seem logical to ban a breed that is inherently more dangerous than many other breeds. This action would leave people the ability to keep on owning dogs and would hopefully prevent more attacks that have hurt so many people. The pitbull is a fighting dog that can do more damage to a body than any other breed of dog out there. These dogs are capable of biting harder, lasting longer, and killing quicker than any other dog and a statistic by Dr. Lachman, a veterinarian and owner of The Family Animal website shows that in 1999 the breed of dog responsible for the most dog bite fatalities was indeed the pitbull with over double the amount of fatalities as the second ranked breed the Rottweiler. Why then would anyone think that banning a fighting dog that seems to be causing so much trouble is a bad idea? That is what this paper is about. When reading it, I hope that you will rely on the truth presented rather than your pre-conceived notions given to you by the press.

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