Pug mixes vs. pit bulls in thin disguise SELMA, California––Much of the public did a double-take on July 31, 2022 as word spread that five “English bulldogs” belonging to breeder Victor Carranza, of 4 Brothers Bulldogs, killed neighbor Richard “Hutch” Barry, 59, as he walked home from his brother’s house around the corner. Fatal […]
Hitler’s pit bull, Sergeant Stubby the Boston terrier, & other dogs of war
Many dogs worth remembering on Veteran’s Day “Cry, ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war,” wrote William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (1599), but the most famous dogs of war remain those of World War I––ironically a war in which dogs were not officially used by the militaries of any of the victorious Allied nations. […]