My youngest pooch was shaking in fear for the hour or so the artillery was set off on New Year's midnight by the neighborhood hoodlums. (Fireworks are illegal in the city.)

The argument about how many of the pitty breeds maul people is not why this thread was started. And if you do any research, you'll learn that dogs of all breeds bite or maul people, but in practice only pitbull attacks are ever reported.

The city shelter here has two kennel buildings, with the most adoptable dogs in one building and the escape artists and the "red zone" dogs in the other, also up for adoption. Frankly, with all of the overcrowding and having to choose which individual dogs to put down for lack of space, I vote we get rid of the red zone dogs. Why? Because very few people can do what Cesar Millan can do with that type of dog, and I don't want the rocket-scientist [not] up the street to think he can bring home and reform a dangerous dog. I'd hazard a guess that most people who think they can do what Millan does over-estimate their abilities.