Pittie Reverse Psychology

BuzzFeed published a listicle on Monday entitled “24 Reasons Why No One Should Ever Have A Pit Bull As A Pet” (h/t Alice and others).

Lest you start to get angry at yet another misguided attempt to malign an awesome type of dog, it’s a trick! They love pitties!!! The listed reasons are all along the lines of “They might be too cute!” and “They love hugs too much!”

Sharky (RIP) figures prominently in several of the list items, which is as it should be, because Sharky is awesome and beautiful and wonderful and he will live forever in our hearts!!!!!!!!

I appreciate this comment exchange on BuzzFeed, though, especially Rebecca’s contribution:

"I'm tired of their reverse psychology titles for articles."

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You just know that someone, somewhere, will ignore the entire post except for the headline. Ugh.

In closing, I noticed that the URL slug for the BuzzFeed page is “dont-pity-a-pitty,” which is kind of adorable. I wish they’d stuck with that as a title.

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