This story is an interesting example of how the media covers pit bulls.

Fox news (and most other news outlets) is pretty notorious for hyping pit bull hysteria. Whenever there is a dog attack involving a big dog, it is always a vicious pit bull mauling. When it is any other dog, the dog's breed will not be mentioned.

However, when it is a "cute" dog story, like a dog rescuing its family or having puppies, the news will never ever identify the dog as being a pit bull. This dog is not an American Bull dog (and even if it is, the hysterics still call it a pit bull) but looks to be a bully-type breed/mix.

Just an interesting note on news bias...

For adoption? You mean for SALE. I am disappointed that this blog is promoting breeders when so many dogs and cats are needlessly killed every day for lack of homes.

DCDiva, obviously you don't look for the reporting of other breed attacks because the media does report them. There is not a worldwide media conspiracy to "get the pits", the dogs do that for themselves with daily maulings and killings. There's no bias, that is an excuse used by the "dogmen" (dog fighters) and breeders. Pits have no excuse for their unpredictability and viciousness, it is what they were bred for. If anything the media, especially Gannett, doesn't do enough to let people know that pits are not "nanny" dogs and that they have been killing people at the rate of one every 21 days for the past three years.

For fact based info on dog bites and fatalities visit NCRC
http://nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com/dog-bites/

Fatalities by ALL dogs are extremely rare.
~76 million dogs in the U.S.
~20-30 fatalities/yr means that 99.99996% of dogs do not kill.

For info on Breed Identification issues visit
http://nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com/canines-issues/breed-identification/

Pit Bull Placebo is available free on line for download
http://nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com/ncrc-publications/

PHD I would love to hear where you got your information because I've heard three deaths a year, tops. One every 21 days is a ridiculous statistic. I am appalled that you would put such unverified information out there. r

For the love of God, people. Spay and neuter!

also, before you use the OLD and unclear CDC or AVMA studies that most anti-pit bull people use, please note that Dr. Randall Lockwood, one of the authors of the CDC’s “Breeds of Dogs,” and a member of the AVMA Task Force, submitted an affidavit in 2007 in opposition to Denver, Colorado's BSL.

Further, the CDC has published a statement that “Breeds of Dogs” does not “identify specific breeds that are most likely to bite or kill, and thus is not appropriate for policy-making decisions related to the topic.” The AVMA has published and distributed a comparable statement.

Shame on Fox for promoting back yard breeders of bully type dogs when thousands are euthanized every day in shelters across this country! These ignorant owners are selling these puppies at six weeks old....NO puppies should be separated from their mother before 8 weeks of age. This is a CRITICAL time of development when a puppy learns bite inhibition from its mother and littermates. A poorly bred American bulldog that was denied critical early socialization skills can grow up to be a VERY dangerous animal.

Breeders like this are the REAL reason so many pit bull type dogs are making negative headlines!

LOL PHD. You crack me up. My vicious pit bull dressed up as a fairy and licked kids (probably to sample for further eating) on Halloween.

PHD -- is that you Pat Dunaway? Because PHD sure doesn't stand for "doctor" of anything in this case. Your so-called "stats" are laughable. Really? A pit bull kills someone every 21 days? You are too funny. Thanks for the good laugh. This is just crazy talk. Everyone -- please -- stop buying into garbage like this. It is not true. Even the CDC admitted a few years that their own dog bite studies were biased and flawed. Pit bulls are dogs. Period. Just like any other dog. If you neglect, abuse and train a lab to be vicious and attack, that's what they are going to do. Wake up. Pit bulls are loving, wonderful, gentle pets when they live in homes with good people who love and care for them. Stop the insanity!!

This type of thing - wreckless breeding - goes on all of the time. There's a girl I work with who wants to get into the business of breeding Labs, another girl's dog just had 10 Rottie pups. Look at the Sunday paper - pages of puppies for sale! In the county I see signs along the road sides selling puppies. And there's a breeding pyramid biz going on. A woman at work looking for a puppy for her kids talked with a woman in Baltimore about buying one of her Rottie's pups and was told that she could get two for the price of one if she promised to breed them and then give the puppies to the original owner to sell. Let's see - if she sold 10 pups in pairs of two - and they each had a litter of 10 pups- that would be 50 puppies she would get back and sell. How many will end up in shelters after just one year?

I wish breeding would be highly regulated or taxed or let's just legislate mandatory neuter and spaying.

If something isn't done with the overbreeding problem, our current overcrowding and euthanization rate will continue to grow exponentially.

Until we can convince people to stop buying puppies and instead, adopt from shelters, there will always be a market for these people who continue to use their dogs to make money.

Disgusting and sad.

There are more people wanting to buy pets than animals to satisfy their needs. The oversupply myth is a marketing and fundraising tool by the humaniacs to maintain their bloated salaries.

Twenty-one pit bulls?

If they're from good fighting stock they could net the breeder maybe $100,000, but only $20,000 to $30,000 total for your run-of-the-mill guard dogs for crack houses or meth labs. Not bad for a few months' work, if you're into stuff like that.

BTW, for those folks who failed in math, if there are 365 days in a year, and pit bulls kill 17 people in one year, then the average rate it which they kill people is in fact one every 21 days. And sure enough, that is exactly what is happening.

Let's get a little perspective here. Not all people who breed their pet are trying to create problems. And often they don't realize the extent of the issue. While some are trying to make money off their pets, some just want a "mini-me" of their dog.

Also they don't realize (or their vet isn't emphasizing) fixing an animal lengthens their life, and that mating is not a pleasurable act for animals, merely instinctual.

But the fact is there are typically THREE deaths from pit bulls per year, typically from chained dogs who are used as guard dogs. ANY breed could substitute under those conditions and would act the same way. I CAN do math. But I can also look at the reasons behind a statistic. A statistic without examination of its sample is useless.

For someone who claims they can do math, why is it that you can't even count? I count three kids killed by pit bulls in just the LAST TWO WEEKS:

Destiny Marie Cox, killed yesterday: http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1731189.html

Unidentified 2-year old, killed October 28: http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=93494&catid=2

Colton Smith, aged 16 months, killed October 23: http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1731189.html

Add the poor guy slaughtered by his brother's pit bulls last August down in Leesburg, and the poor kid killed down in Orange County a few weeks back; the list goes on and on.

Three per year? Bah.

Just to clarify since the discussion seems to be focused on American "Pitbull" Terrriers killing kids and/or just licking them and such.
However, the dog in the news is not a Pitbull. It is an American Bulldog.

how often do you hear of a pit bull killing people or having caused bad injurys more than if it was any other breed stop looking at the breed and start looking at the owners Pits are great dogs the lady that had the first face transplant was attack by a lab