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I knew that Pittie owners loved their dogs before I worked the Love-A-Bull Pit Bull awareness day, but my Gawd there was a lot of love on display at Republic Square Park. Here’s how it went down. First, the Pittie parade. Imagine umpteen hundreds of Pit Bulls and various other Bully breeds and their owners marching down Congress avenue to hoots and hollers and cheers and general good timery. Next, the festival. All those pups and parents marching into that tiny little park to sign a pledge to be responsible guardians and help change the reputation of this wonderful breed for the better. And then the best part, they all came to my booth for a snapshot. Well most of ‘em did. At one point the line was seemingly miles long, so I can understand why a few people backed out. But Pittie owners are committed to their breeds and they proved to be troopers. I knew I’d be busy that day, but I had no idea. Lets look at some numbers: 227 pictures in 240 minutes. That’s easy math – just about a picture a minute. FOR FOUR HOURS. And we loved every minute of it. Did we break a world record? Not sure yet. But it doesn’t matter. We did good things for a good breed and that’s the reason we were there.

Thank you to all that came out, enjoyed the day, signed the pledge and who continue to help show the world how great bully breed dogs truly are.  If you happen to be one of the 227 owners who braved the sun, wind and rain to get your picture taken, and would like a free small jpeg of your picture, just shoot me an e-mail with your number at: tonyapetphotography@mac.com And if you’d like to buy a 4X6 print, we’re selling those for $10 – 50% of all the sales will go to Love-A-Bull.  A very sincere thank you to Meghan, Lydia, and Leala from Love-A-Bull. And to my favorite Pit Bull owner Carly and her beautiful Pittie Rain, who introduced me to this fabulous group. You are all rockstars and the Pitties are lucky to have you in their corner.