Christy Cornell-- FIRST "PETEY" AND NOW "SGT STUBBY" HAVE YOU NO SHAME

HE SURE LOOKS LIKE WHAT YOU PEOPLE CALL A "PITBULL" CHRISTY

Christy Cornell

February 7 at 12:37am · Edited ·

STOLEN VALOR

Pitbull propagandist attempt to re-write history and falsely claim the identity of a WW1 war hero and beloved mascot .

Those who claim that Sgt. Stubby was a pitbull need to show proof.

Where are the breed registration papers that prove Sgt. Stubby was a pitbull?

Where are the breed registration papers that prove Sgt. Stubby was any of following list of breeds which are LEGALLY defined as pitbull type dogs? American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, American Bully, or American Bulldog.

There aren't any breed registration papers for Sgt. Stubby.
http://historywired.si.edu/detail.cfm?ID=519

http://www.ct.gov/mil/cwp/view.asp?a=1351&q=257958

This much repeated "Sgt. Stubby was a pitbull" claim is inaccurate according to contemporaneous public records and is only used to try and justify all the people killed by pitbulls. The claim of Stgt. Stubby being a pitbull, as far as him being within the realm of the legally defined dog types of pitbulls, is not true. It is not true unless you want to say that Boston Terriers are pitbulls. Which, in their recognized AKC form of today, Boston Terriers are NOT a pitbull.

It is clearly an attempt of stolen valor when pro-pitbull people start claiming Sgt. Stubby for their propaganda purposes. Sgt. Stubby was a STRAY dog which was FOUND by some servicemen in a park like area close to Yale University. Showing up as a short tailed puppy, he was given the name Stubby. No known breeder or owner is documented for Sgt. Stubby. No definite breed history is known of this famous war hero dog. Any attempts at his identification are just basically cases of visual guessing, and if you actually look closely at Sgt. Stubby you can clearly see that he is morphologically MUCH MORE similar to a Boston Terrier than any other dog breed. Go research the history of the Boston Terrier and you will see that during the time when Sgt. Stubby was alive, they were bred a little larger and frequently came in the same color as Sgt. Stubby. The historical photos of early Boston Terriers are almost exactly like the historical photos of Sgt.Stubby. Image for image, the early Boston Terriers looked just like Sgt. Stubby, so Sgt. Stubby is actually more likely to be related to the Boston Terrier. But you don't see the Boston Terrier people constantly claiming him. I guess it's because Pitbulls kill an average of two people per month, so pro-pitbull propagandists have to use every lie possible to distract people from seeing the death and misery caused by pitbulls. Pitbull protectionists have made up lies about an unknown dog's history even though they have no more right than the Boston Terrier people do in claims for Sgt. Stubby. Every time a pitbull kills or maims someone, the pitbull apologists have to dig up and trot out a dead war hero dog to make excuses for what today's pitbulls are doing. And pitbull apologist have no shame with their audacity in screaming out the name and heroics of Sgt. Stubby all the time in order to justify 22-27 people being killed per year for the last 5 years. It is deceptively unfair to call Stubby a pitbull (meaning a pitbull by today's standards) considering that the dogs shown in the photos of Boston Terriers being bred during the time that Stubby was alive were very similar to Stubby's pictures. (see photo of Baynard's Tom, considered to be among the first of the screw tail [shortened] Boston Terriers)http://chestofbooks.com/…/The-Boston-Terrier-Continued.html…

http://www.bostonterrierrescuecanada.com/famous-boston-ter…/
(See photos of early Boston Terriers at the bottom of the Island Boston's page) http://members.shaw.ca/islandbostons/extrainfo.htm

It only been since this foolish attempt to re-purposed pitbulls as pets that Sgt. Stubby has started to be called a pitbull. The news articles contemporaneously written called him by the name of "Boston Bull terrier", "Bull terrier", "Boston bull", "bull terrier". All these aforementioned names are the same name by which the Boston Terriers of that time were called.
http://article.archive.nytimes.com/1921/07/07/98708743.pdf…

http://www.ct.gov/mil/cwp/view.asp?a=1351&q=257958

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/…/1921-07-09/ed-1/seq-18/…
" stray bull terrier" per the March, 17th,1926 edition of the Evening Independant (Florida newspaper, AP)http://news.google.com/newspapers…

(An excerpt from a "Slate" article where Stubby is called a "Boston bull" by an outspoken, disgruntled war hero named Richard L. Richardson .)"Still, not everyone was captive to Stubby’s charms. The most revealing page in the Stubby scrapbook may be the one in which we find a note, inscribed in Conroy’s handwriting: “Criticism of Stubby which proves he is famous.” It is a single page, but its contents show that Stubby-mania wasn’t embraced by all Army veterans. And much of the criticism illustrates that commemorating Stubby did often mean neglecting the story of human veterans.
The page includes an infuriated letter to the editor by Richard L. Richardson, a Great War veteran from San Angelo, Texas. Richardson writes:
"If this Boston bull did so much and the boys didn’t do anything, why not send an army of bull pups the next time and see who is entitled to these honors? I think the whole thing is nothing but a disgrace to the U.S. Army. I feel that I am insulted … the thousands of real heroes, the red-blooded American boys who left gallons of their blood and maybe an arm or a leg on the battlefields don’t get these honors bestowed on them. They didn’t do anything to receive a medal or the name “a real hero.” But a dog did." "http://www.slate.com/…/dogs_of_war_sergeant_stubby_the_u_s_…

Even if Sgt. Stubby was a pitbull (which he wasn't by today's standards), how does what that one dog did in the past justify what today's pitbulls are doing now?
It doesn't.

There were 27 people killed by pitbulls last year (2014). More people were killed by pitbulls in 2014 than were killed by all other dog breeds COMBINED in 2014. That is what's behind this attempt of stolen valor. The Boston Terrier aficionados should be outraged by this. The pitbull propagandists should be ashamed.