I have two huge dogs; a female pitbull and a male german shepard/chow mix. I also have an 11 month old son at home. When my son was two months old and sleeping in the bassinet next to us, he had an apnea attack in the middle of the night, since the gasps were so low, my husband or I did not awake, my "scary" pitbull and shepard ran to the bassinett, jumped up on my bed and started barking, when I ran over to my son, I realized what had happened I picked him up and rushed him to the doctor's he was fine, just a one time apnea attack but my dogs were the ones that caught it. Every time since then when our baby wakes up and starts crying, one waits by his nursery door and the other comes to grab my husband or I...every time with out fail. When our 7 year old neice came to stay with us for a weekend and was playing in our pool she was splashing around like she was drowning (she was not, she was playing) our pitbull leaped into the water and swam acroos the pool with a rescue float and brought it to her and pushed her towards the wall of the pool. She cries if she sees someone go in the water and we have to tell her they are ok, because if not she leaps in with a float everytime...she was never once taught to do this, I guesss its just instict to try and save people...not hurt them.
My point is this...People stereo type races..it's wrong! and now people also sterotype breeds of dogs...it's wrong too!
I also happen to live in the same community as this lady that died, although I did not know her personally.
That's a heart warming story. Unfortunately it doesn't wipe away the fact that 4 more Americans were killed by "scary" Pit Bulls in July.
The entire concept of "breed" is the ultimate form of discrimination anyway. Especially with the fighting dogs, where the less proficient killers were culled. But to each his own. Good luck living on the edge.