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Three armed bandits stole 11 potentially prize-winning pit bulls after tying up their owner and his friends during a midday robbery in West Park on Wednesday.
This led neighbors to ask one question: They only took 11?
There had to be more, they thought.
Twenty, 30, maybe 101.
And a snake.
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11 frightened pit bulls seems like a
massacreparty just waiting to happen!Posted by: Punkin | January 31, 2008 at 08:26 AM
''These weren't fighting dogs,'' said one victim, who asked to be identified as only as Dave for fear of retaliation. ''They were show dogs, the type that receive blue ribbons at shows. They were tame.'' Dave, who lives at the home and does, indeed, own a snake, said...."
Note to journalists associated with this article: identifying where your source lives is probably not the best way to protect his anonymity.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 31, 2008 at 08:37 AM
dog show? is that what the kids are calling it post michael vick?
Posted by: crossgirl | January 31, 2008 at 08:59 AM
Three armed bandits, wow, you don't see that everyday!
Posted by: Prairie Dog | January 31, 2008 at 11:45 AM
... potentially prize-winning ... ? ? ?
Apparently theyly didn'tly studyly theirly grammarly rulesly muchly ...
Posted by: OtheU(manity) | January 31, 2008 at 12:32 PM
As the owner of a couple of award-winning UKC-registered American Pit Bull Terriers and several award-winning AKC-registered American Staffordshire Terriers,
a) Yes, dog shows--think Westminster and Eukanuba,
b) Yes, tame and not fighting dogs,
c) All but one of the dogs rescued from Vick's house are happy, healthy, friendly dogs who love people and playing with other dogs--they don't want to fight.
Posted by: Scott K | January 31, 2008 at 01:56 PM
I understand they (the dogs) can be very sweet, but they look very mean and ugly to me...
Posted by: Kathybear | January 31, 2008 at 02:07 PM
So, I'm thinking he wasn't planning on selling these as guard dogs?
Posted by: daisyj | January 31, 2008 at 02:11 PM
He had to sell them to pay the fines.
Posted by: JEC666 | January 31, 2008 at 02:42 PM
No one in the entire history of dogfights AND dog shows combined has ever kicked down a door and pistol-whipped someone in order to steal peke-a-poos. Perhaps he should try breeding peke-a-poos, or possibly tropical fish or canaries. Or he could go the other way and teach the dogs to eat intruders.
Posted by: Alien8 | January 31, 2008 at 04:11 PM