so I'll just post the link....Hard being a pit bull's PR agent
It is an article about Ken Foster, author of...
"The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind"...
Click the pic for an interview with him on "Satya" site...
A couple of excerpts...
Disasters bookend his memoir as Foster talks about moving to New York right before September 11th and settling in New Orleans just in time for Hurricane Katrina. The dogs play a special role in helping him get through these times...."...after the hurricane, 62 percent of all animals rescued were pit bulls. Nobody was bitten, mauled or run down by any of these dogs. There is a sense that pit bulls are inherently evil dogs—making careful plans to attack and kill people—which just isn’t the case at all. I’m not saying that none of them have problems, but most of their problems are created by people who have abused them or trained them to be violent.
They are actually the most playful dogs—incredibly loving and bond really strongly. Many people fall into the pit bull world by accident and feel close to every pit bull—like they are a relative. They are smart, funny and do things that make me laugh. Almost all the pit bulls I’ve found have been the most laid back dogs. There are a few I’ve worked with who had particular issues that made them snappish, and yet if you are aware of your dog’s behavior, you can address it. And if you really look, the percentage of pit bulls involved in anything bad is pretty small, because the pit bull population is actually pretty huge. To characterize them by the way they look, as all dogs that look this way are bad or dangerous, doesn’t make people safer, doesn’t make the dogs safer, and it doesn’t address the actual problem—which is a problem of people."