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	<title>Maul Talk Manual - DogsBite.org</title>
	
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	<description>A Guide to Understanding the Language of Pit Bull Owners and Advocates</description>
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		<title>Stockholm Nutter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 16:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Stockholm Nutter is derived from the base term &#8220;Nutter&#8221; (short for Pit Nutter) and is part of several combined terms, such as Super Nutter, Nikko-Nutter, pre-Nutter and post-Nutter. A Stockholm Nutter is exactly what it suggests: A pit bull owner who has been at the receiving end of the death and destruction these dogs inflict, [&#8230;]<br/>
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		<title>“Really nice dogs”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Following up on a submission by KaD last week, “[Pit bulls] are really nice dogs if you’d just give them a chance,&#8221; we now focus on the first part: &#8220;really nice dogs.&#8221; Variations, such as &#8220;really good dogs,&#8221; &#8220;really great dogs&#8221; and &#8220;really sweet dogs&#8221; are found ad nauseum online. However, &#8220;give them a chance&#8221; [&#8230;]<br/>
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		<title>“Give them a chance”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[A recent submission by KaD came in containing two Maul Talk terms: &#8220;These are really nice dogs if you&#8217;d just give them a chance.&#8221; We separated the terms into: &#8220;really nice dogs&#8221; and &#8220;give them a chance.&#8221; Tackling the latter term first, Google Search results show that the query (&#8220;pit bull&#8221; and &#8220;give them a [&#8230;]<br/>
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		<title>“Use them as pillows”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[After the horrific dog mauling death of 21-month old Monica Laminack by her family&#8217;s seven pit bulls, relatives told investigators that the toddler often played with the dogs and would &#8220;use them as pillows&#8221; while watching TV. Google Search results show that Laminack&#8217;s relatives are not unique. The term, &#8220;use them as pillows,&#8221; yet another [&#8230;]<br/>
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		<title>“I don’t understand it”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 01:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[After the catastrophic pit bull mauling of Linda Henry, 54, of Westwego, Louisiana, her boyfriend Clarence Allen said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why they did it … They never had a fight. I don&#8217;t understand it.&#8221; Three of the couple&#8217;s four adult pit bulls ambushed Henry after she walked into her home. The woman lost an [&#8230;]<br/>
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		<title>“Could not stop it”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[After a pet pit bull violently attacked Ryan Maxwell killing him, the owner of the dog, Ashiya Ferguson, emphatically declared: &#8220;Oh God, it was so horrible. I couldn&#8217;t stop it. I couldn&#8217;t stop it. I couldn&#8217;t stop it.&#8221; Ferguson is hardly alone in the inability to stop a tenacious pit bull attack, which is Part [&#8230;]<br/>
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		<title>“Super Nutter”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[As opposed to just a plain old pit nutter &#8212; now commonly seen shortened and also capitalized to the single term &#8220;Nutter&#8221; &#8212; a Super Nutter was coined by writer Snack Sized Dog in a December 2012 blog post on Craven Desires, Who will be the Austin TX Next Top Nutter? The post names three [&#8230;]<br/>
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		<title>“PBAM”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Writer Barbara Kay of the National Post, who does not shy away when writing about the dangerousness of pit bulls, recently penned the Maul Talk Term &#8220;ambulatory grenade.&#8221; In the same article, &#8220;Beauty queen becomes target of the pit bully lobby,&#8221; Kay created a new acronym for the pit bull lobby, calling it the pit bull [&#8230;]<br/>
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		<title>“Must have been the weather”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Maul Talk reader JoannaDW sends in new phrase after the fatal pit bull mauling of Debra Wilson-Robert. The phrase, &#8220;Must have been the weather&#8221; has been used before, but in a slightly different context. In February 2010, after a series of brutal pit bull maulings in Philadelphia, including the horrific death of Christine Staab, pit bull propaganda devotee [&#8230;]<br/>
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		<title>“Ambulatory grenade”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Writer Barbara Kay of the National Post, who writes sharply crafted prose about the dangerousness of pit bulls, recently penned two Maul Talk Terms in a single paragraph. The article, &#8220;Beauty queen becomes target of the pit bully lobby&#8221; concerns the recent announcement by Miss Universe Canada, Sahar Biniaz, that she supports a provincial pit bull [&#8230;]<br/>
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