What We are Reading through: Esquire's Tom Junod on Pit Bulls

Tom Junod cuddles his Dog, Dexter.

There is a gorgeous and compelling article that Esquire magazine released now, so we could not resist discussing it along with you. Tom Junod, Esquire's longtime author in particular, composed a deeply personal opus on Pit Bulls that's absolutely worth a read.

We will not spoil it for you personally, however the crux from the piece questions why the Dog, which Junod calls "your dog whoever face we have seen our collective reflection," is put to sleep for a price that may be up to 3,000 dogs each day. "The Condition from the American Dog" draws on Junod's insights of his late Dog, Carson, and the current one, Dexter. Here's our favorite parts:

"The demographic changes which are changing America's population look for a mirror within the demographic changes which are changing America's canine one, with similar effect: Increasingly more we become what we should in some way can't abide. We may accept pit bulls personally, but America still does not accept them institutionally, where it counts indeed, apartment complexes and insurance providers are put together in pressure against them. And they are we: For although we adopt them through the 1000's, we abandon them through the millions. The ever-growing population of dogs considered pit bulls feeds a constantly-growing population of dogs condemned as pit bulls, so we resolve this rising demographic pressure in the manner that we have become accustomed: secretly, as well as in staggering amounts. We've always relied on our dogs to inform us who we're. But what pit bulls inform us is the fact that who we believe we're is progressively at odds using what we have switched to be."

Read the entire article here on Esquire.com.

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