Thanks for the info Mike. I love to read when PB's get more opportunities to clear their name.

Yeah, but don't get excited. Read the comments below the story. I think we live in the nation with the lowest average IQ, or just a very vocal stupid majority.

I know Jenni. I've been reading those comments. I'd say it's both.

Wow, there is a comment there about a pitbull that has attacked a chihuahua 3 times, a 3.5# chihuahua. Something just ins't right about that, a pitbull, or any mid to large dog that attacks a dog that small would not need 3 tries. Those are some of the most ignorant and infuriating people .. blah .. I can't read any more of their comments, I wonder if they realize that breed stereotypes follow the same thought pattern as racism? Has the world just decided to place all of it's hatred of things unknown on dogs because it has been made socially unacceptable (and rightly so) so be racist?

Good for her and what she is doing but I can speak from experience owning good natured well behaved well trained APBTs that she will have a lot of trouble with them and now that she has had the press get in on her story more people know about her and will find her, which won't have such a happy ending. People are mean and stupid, and they will do bad things with the belief that they are doing good and what is right.

I say that because one of my dogs was shot in my own fenced yard on my own property 400 feet from the property line, a dog that was loyal, loving, and was mistaken for a deer despite being black brindle and laying on the porch. A police report, the whole 9 yards, deemed a hunting accident and all that man got was a fine for tresspassing and hunting on posted "no tresspassing" and "no hunting" land.

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Wow, there is a comment there about a pitbull that has attacked a chihuahua 3 times, a 3.5# chihuahua.

Yes, as the owner of both a Pit Bull and a Chihuahua, I found this comment highly entertaining. What is the Pit Bull doing wrong that it took him 3 tries, and still the Chi lives to have it's dumba$$ owner tell the story. Clearly, this was a vicious Pit Bull.

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People are mean and stupid, and they will do bad things with the belief that they are doing good and what is right.

Ya mean like poisoning the neighbor's dog rather than watch their kids if they're so afraid?

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I say that because one of my dogs was shot in my own fenced yard on my own property 400 feet from the property line, a dog that was loyal, loving, and was mistaken for a deer despite being black brindle and laying on the porch. A police report, the whole 9 yards, deemed a hunting accident and all that man got was a fine for tresspassing and hunting on posted "no tresspassing" and "no hunting" land.

I'm sorry to hear about your dog.

I can't prove it, of course, and I really hate to even think this...but when I first got my Pit Bull, Mia, I had a great relationship with my neighbors. The day I brought her home was the last time I've had a conversation with them. I was told by another neighbor that they had an "ice cream social" where the "Pit Bull Problem" was discussed. Apparently, my neighbor has some irrational fear of them and is convinced that she's going to eat her child (perhaps she should keep her naked 3 yr old child out of my garage if she's so terrified, but that's another story....).

Anyway, I had a fully-fenced yard with a 7x30 kennel/run inside, but my fence was chain link at the time, and it was easy to open the gate. The first day I left Mia outside while I wasn't there, I came home to a very sick girl. I thought maybe she ate something outside. Second day and third day, same thing. It was this day that my other neighbor mentioned to me how vehement the lady next door had been about her hatred for Pit Bulls...and I started to wonder.

I've lived there 2.5yrs and it would never have occurred to me that one of my neighbors would do anything so hateful, so I conducted an experiment. I left Mia AND Caleb (GSD) outside together and left. Caleb at a fence line makes Cujo look like Lassie. I came home to 2 perfectly healthy dogs. I can't prove that anyone did anything to her, but you hear about it all the time. People really think it's ok to kill someone's dog if it's a Pit Bull, and I just don't get it. It's viewed as heroic instead of barbaric.

I now have a 6'wooden privacy fence with qa double locked gate that you can only open from the inside, that no one can stick anything through, and I told everyone I knew what I thought happened, so if that was the case, she'd know I was on to her and there would be serious repercussions. No more issues.

I'm sorry to hear that, it is horrible what people will do. My dog was sleeping on my porch when it was shot. I know because the entry wound was the underside of the belly, he was shot with a .243, really ripped up his insides, the bullet hit the spine. The vet was 2 hours away (lived in a very rural area) so my uncle shot him in the head with his pistol. It was one of the most horrible things I've ever seen but he would have continued to suffer and died in the truck on the way to ge euthanized.

The thing about it that still gets me is the guy is a "friend" to one side of my family, was then and still is. He stood there at the fenceline (which was 400 feet from the property line on 17 acres...) and told the cop he thought my very dark clored sleeping dog was a deer. He stayed there the entire 45 minutes it took the officer to get to our place, smug, never once apologized.

I hate that man to this day, and manage to meet someone like him far too often.

Yuck. I'd have my dog eat him, and tell the cops he thought he was a deer. I hope there's a special place in hell reserved for people who intentionally harm innocent animals. I sound hateful, but I really feel there's something seriously wrong with a person with those tendencies.

Yeap, as I said I believe the thought patterns that lead to racism are the same as with breed discrimination. Some people just NEED something to hate.

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Yes, as the owner of both a Pit Bull and a Chihuahua, I found this comment highly entertaining. What is the Pit Bull doing wrong that it took him 3 tries, and still the Chi lives to have it's dumba$$ owner tell the story. Clearly, this was a vicious Pit Bull.

Oh yeah I forgot .. wouldn't you stop walking your chi in that area after say the 1st or even second times the SAME dog that was still not contained attacked your dog?

;;knock knock;; anybody home?!