Article: Oaklanders help rescue Vick's pit bulls

Article: PIT BULLS SHOT DEAD AFTER ATTACK DEPUTIES KILL DOGS AFTER WOMAN, PETS BITTEN DURING STROLL.(City Desk/Local)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  February 9, 2004 ;     555 words ......shot and killed two pit bulls Sunday after a woman and her dogs were attacked, and...Clairton Drive when the pit bulls approached, biting at the dogs and turning on her...summer after the pit bulls jumped a fence and charged her dogs. Lind said she was...

Article: Saving Michael Vick's Dogs; Pit Bulls Rescued From the Football Player's Fighting Ring Show Progress in an Unprecedented Rehabilitation Effort
The Washington Post;  July 7, 2008 ;     700+ words ......had kept about 50 pit bulls on his 15-acre property...Moonlight. We knew the dogs were chained to car...this many fighting dogs live long enough...Classic fighting pit bulls, part bulldog and...aggressive with other dogs. Their ability to...street fighting, some pit ...

Article: Mute Youth Couldn't Scream For Help as Pit Bulls Attacked; Teenager Had Taken Care of the Dogs Before, Owner Says
The Washington Post;  June 19, 2001 ;     562 words ......for help. When two pit bulls attacked the 13-year-o...was tending to the dogs to help a family...Graham said. "These dogs are basically lethal weapons." Pit bulls have a predeliction...Graham's bill, said pit bulls -- a category that...several kinds of dogs -- ...

Article: Pit bulls different, shouldn't ban all because some are aggressive dogs
Capital (Annapolis);  January 8, 2007 ;     145 words ......a passion, not for just pit bulls, but for all dogs. She has love for all animals...girl, she would give stray dogs, especially pit bulls, a place to stay under...so aggressive or mean. Pit bulls can be innocent dogs when raised correctly...

Article: Are all pit bulls nasty dogs?: An enforcement officer with the Humane Society of Berks County Inc. calls the breed friendly, but says some owners don't care for their animals properly.
Reading Eagle (Reading, PA);  June 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ......have to buy permits for pit bulls, put permits on the dogs' collars and display notices...lamented that some owners of pit bulls turn the dogs into mean animals. They'...time to care for their pit bulls cause the dogs to become aggressive, Heckart...

Article: TWO PIT BULLS MAUL WOMAN, 71 BADLY BITTEN VICTIM HEALING DOGS ARE KILLED BY OFFICERS.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  September 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ......yelling at the dogs. A King County...saw the two white pit bulls atop a person underneath...Avenue South. The dogs were tugging and...the owner of the dogs was at work when...took two other pit bulls from the man's...allowing their dogs to go unconfined...also prohibits ...

Article: The Orlando Sentinel, Fla., Mike Thomas column: Pit bulls often wrong dogs with wrong people.
Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL);  September 2, 2007 ;     621 words ......40 percent of the dogs going into shelters are pit bulls or pit-bull mixes...their own good. Pit bulls are perhaps the most abused dogs on the planet, wrote...euthanasia policy for pit bulls are naive...number of fighting dogs grows, more will...

Article: GOING TO THE DOGS: OFFICIALS ARE ON THE SCENT OF PIT BULLS TRAINED FOR FIGHTING.(PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS)
The Virginian Pilot;  April 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......by one of the dogs in her own back...saw no signs the pit bulls were being trained...other people's dogs and use them to train their pit bulls for fighting...limit of five dogs, Dew said. A man...Hermon had 14 pit bulls. He told Dew he...

Article: PIT BULLS CAST 'PALL' CARE AND HANDLING OF 47 SEIZED DOGS PUSHING HUMANE SOCIETY TO THE LIMIT.(FRONT)
The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  January 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ......plotting to get their dogs back, Holmes said. While the pit bulls have strained the...you think of these dogs involved in fighting. There are so many pit bulls, some have had to...allowed to handle the pit bulls because the dogs are s

Article: Vicious Dogs Put Bite Into Street Crime; Robbers Use Pit Bulls, Rottweilers as Weapons
The Washington Post;  September 17, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Dogs such as Rottweilers and pit bulls, often mistreated to...shelter, said he has seen pit bulls and Rottweilers -- large dogs that can weigh up to...also are turning their pit bulls loose on smaller animals to train the dogs to attack and kill...

Article: OWNERS BLAMED FOR VICIOUS DOGS PIT BULLS MALIGNED, DEFENDERS SAY
Post-Tribune (IN);  June 27, 1987 ;     700+ words ......controlling ownership of pit bulls and other attack dogs. On June 3, the Gary City...insurance of $1 million. Are pit bulls the killer dogs they're portrayed to be...exaggerated the dangers posed by pit bulls. "I love my dogs. It's time somebody came...

Article: Britain Bans Pit Bulls After Attacks on People;`Such Dogs Have No Place in Our Homes'
The Washington Post;  May 22, 1991 ;     490 words ......smuggled fighting dogs. Major said Home...measures to eliminate pit bulls from Britain either...registration of all dogs. Pit bulls are descendants...the last year, pit bulls have been responsible...18 killings by dogs in 1990, eight by pit bulls. ...

Article: WOMAN ATTACKED BY PIT BULLS SAYS SHE STILL LOVES DOGS
Post-Tribune (IN);  November 20, 1992 ;     420 words ......recovering from an attack by pit bulls. (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO) THIS...South Lake. A woman mauled by pit bulls says she hasn't lost her love for dogs, but says ownership of dangerous...at the state laws on vicious dogs," said Caress Garten. ''I don...when she was attacked by two ...

Article: AURORA PIT BULLS MIGHT STAY UNTIL THEY DIE OFF PROPOSAL REQUIRES THAT THE DOGS WERE LICENSED BY AUG. 9.(News)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  August 19, 2005 ;     460 words ......close the door on pit bulls not licensed before...9, and owners of dogs allowed to stay...Conway. The three pit bulls are under a standard...quarantine for vicious dogs at the city's animal...to nine types of dogs that are pit bulls or have pit bull...