Pits fall to lowest since 2010 relative to other top breed types Non-pit bull small terriers, the hound category, large retrievers, and dachshunds all have a legitimate claim to being the most popular dog type in the U.S., according to the seventh annual ANIMALS 24-7 survey of classified ads offering dogs for sale or adoption. Data […]
Pit bull attack tests Army will to enforce ban from base housing
U.S. Army slow to release information about the case FORT POLK, Louisiana––A May 22, 2016 pit bull attack on five-year-old Wyatt Herrington of Fort Polk, Louisiana, appears to have evolved into a test of the U.S. Army’s determination to enforce a 2009 ban of pit bulls and several other categories of dangerous dog from […]
über source of pit bull myths: Pep, The Story Of A Brave Dog
by Clarence Hawkes Illustrated by William Van Dresser Milton Bradley Co. (Springfield, Mass.), 1922. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton The sole known published reference to the now popular “nanny dog” or “nursemaid dog” notion, before the rise of opposition to breed-specific laws in recent decades, came in a 1922 work of fiction, Pep: The Story of A […]