Outstanding response, Tio. People can always find something on the Internet to back their claim, no matter how crazy, but to definitively call into question their source is a masterpiece.

I have had one pit bull in my life, and for only a short time. While staying in Hohenwald, TN, one appeared at the house one day. She was still a puppy, maybe 4 or 5 months old, and she looked for all the world like a Holocaust survivor. Skin and bones does not do it justice, this dog had been STARVED. She crawled to me on her belly, her tail wagging furiously, desperate hope in her eyes. I fed her a package of Oscar Meyer weiners one after the other in small bites, and I cried my eyes out (crying now remembering). I kept her for a month and she blossomed into a healthy and happy and wonderful dog.

But Hohenwald, like so many towns, will not allow Pit Bulls in the city limits. Luckily a friend of the family had a farm outside town, and it did not take much convincing to find Gracie a home. =)