Malcom Gladwell’s piece in The New Yorker isn’t specifically about Pit Bulls, but my new puppy happens to be a Pit Bull mix, so the article hits home anyway. Actually, she’s a Pit Bull, Rotweiller, German Shepherd mix. Ooooooh Scary! Not.
If thinking about muscular terriers as pit bulls is a generalization, then thinking about dangerous dogs as anything substantially similar to a pit bull is a generalization about a generalization. “The way a lot of these laws are written, pit bulls are whatever they say they are,”
Eighty-four per cent of the pit bulls that have been given the [Temperament] test have passed, which ranks pit bulls ahead of beagles, Airedales, bearded collies, and all but one variety of dachshund.
The junk-yard German shepherdwhich looks as if it would rip your throat outand the German-shepherd guide dog are the same breed.