Pit Bull Terrier

When things have gone this far, what are Pitt Bull Terrier enthusiasts to do?

If I was not a half-crazy dog guy, I'd be ready to put restrictions on them as well.

When this is the image in the popular imagination, when your breed is already a metaphor for wanton violence, you've already lost the media war.  It is time for Plan D.

What is Plan D?  Capitulation on restrictions for breeding, increased taxes, and insurance costs in order to avoid breed bans.  Make Pit Bulls more expensive to own so that the popularity among the gangster crowd goes someplace else. 

It is probably the Doberman's turn again.  Maybe they'll embrace some irony and start sporting standard poodles.

It is easy for me to make jokes, I like my dogs small.  It doesn't matter if pound for pound a ground working terrier is the toughest dog around, we don't live life in a pound for pound world and small dogs do not the gangster image.

It is sad.  I have known some great pit bulls and some of my favorite people are pit bull enthusiasts but I don't see what there is to do but cut your losses.

What ever breed becomes the next focus for the tough guy crowd and the resulting public fear, they'd do well to listen to the hard to hear but valuable advice given over at Terrierman's Daily Dose.