The term "pit bull" is used broadly to describe multiple related breeds including the American Pit Bull Terrier, the American Staffordshire Terrier, the Staffordshire Bull Terrier, sometimes the ...

The common terms of “Pit Bull dog” or “Pit Bulls” do not refer to one specific breed, but rather five different but related Pit Bull breeds of muscular terriers originally bred for bull baiting and ...

Dogs labeled as "pit bulls" are seen as less approachable, less trainable, more aggressive, less intelligent, less friendly and overall less adoptable than Labrador retrievers and border collies, ...

What’s in a name? If you’re a pit bull in an animal shelter, it could mean life or death. Dogs labeled as pit bulls stay in animal shelters for three times as long as lookalikes and are more likely to ...

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Jacob Anderson began his trek from Virginia to Colorado in 2015 with his trusty sidekick and first pit bull, Kiwi. Accompanying Anderson in the passenger seat, Kiwi fought off sleep so that he could ...

CABOT, Ark. — Cabot city officials revoked a ban on pit bulls Tuesday. There has been a stigma surrounding pit bulls, but city staff wants to put more responsibility on dog owners, rather than the dog ...

In 1989, 7-year-old Melissa Moreira underwent facial reconstruction surgery after being severely attacked by a neighbor's pit bull. Shortly after, Miami-Dade County banned all pit bulls. At the time, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — Denver voters chose to lift ...

CORRECTION: This post had been updated to reflect the correction appended at the end. Colleen Lynn was jogging in Seattle eight years ago when a pit bull knocked her on her back and sunk its teeth ...