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Article: PIT BULL PARADOX: SWEET OR SAVAGE BREED'S POPULARITY GROWS IN SEATTLE DESPITE CONCERNS.(News)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- January 7, 2008
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Byline: DANIEL LATHROPP-I reporter
Seattle's pit bull population has exploded in recent years, with the controversial dogs, originally bred for fighting, now the fourth-most-popular dog in the city.
City officials chalk it up to a fad.
"It's just like fashion. Everything kind of goes in cycles, I believe," said Don Baxter, a supervisor at the city's animal control department. "You look at the breeds in the '70s and '80s, and they'll be totally different from the breeds in the '90s, which will be totally different from the breeds in the 2000s."
In the past decade, the number of registered pit bulls in the city has more than tripled ...