Apollo and Aja have spent the better part of this week “showing their love” for each other. We should have puppies on the ground in late September. Contact us if you are interested.

ATLANTA — Atlanta Pit Bull Parents wants to set the record straight about what they said are the factors that cause a majority of pit bulls to attack.

Over the past couple of months, CBS Atlanta News has interviewed a number of victims mauled by pit bulls. As recently, as July 3, Doretha Crews, 80, was mauled by two pit bulls while walking to her mailbox.

Clayton County police charged the dog’s owner, Joel Robinson, 28, with reckless conduct. The two pit bulls that that attacked Crews were in quarantine, police said. An animal control board will decide whether they will be put down.

It is attacks like this the group said they find even more troubling. “We hate to see these things come up because we know they are controllable events,” said Liz Henderson, founder of the Atlanta Pit Bull Parents group. “A very small percentage of these dogs are involved in aggression against people. Most times, the dogs get a bad name because observers who might see an attack or someone being attacked don’t know much about the dogs. So they think any dog that attacks them is a pit bull. Then that gets portrayed incorrectly to the media and into the statistics.”

Henderson has a pit bull mix rescue named Dash. Dash is a 6-month-old Henderson said would never hurt anybody. “He loves people, is very friendly, sociable and enjoys playing with other dogs. Dash is just fun loving cheerful happy go lucky dog,” said Henderson.

We asked the group why the City of Atlanta that has seen so many attacks shouldn’t push for legislation to ban all pit bulls in city limits.

“That is absolutely not the answer,” Ami Ciontos said. “We already have leash laws on the books that are not enforced. A total ban would not be able to pick out which dogs are pit bulls and which aren’t. It all goes back to the owner if you are stupid irresponsible or just plain ignorant you have no business having a large breed of dog especially one that is powerful and do some serious damage.”

“Give me five minutes, meet my dogs, come watch them with my child,” Kellie Roach said. Roach lets her 18-month-old daughter play with her pit bulls.

“They are never going to do anything to harm Addison they love her to pieces, “said Roach.

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I would like anyone and everyone to read this article and then look at the dog labeled as a “pit bull”. Anyone who knows anything about this breed can tell you with full certainty, even just by seeing this small picture, that this dog is not a full blooded pit bull. I assume because it has brindle markings, it was labeled a pit bull. This is exactly the kind of press that hurts our beloved breed. This article should state clearly that the dog is either not a purebred pit bull, or list it as a mix breed dog. As for the dog, it should be put down with no questions asked and the owners should be fined appropriately. I know that seems harsh and it is not the animals fault, but this dog WILL bite again. For someone to assume an invisible electric fence will stop even a pit bull mix is incredibly ignorant.

Singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton is taking antibiotics and recovering nicely after being bitten by a pit bull while jogging in northeastern Pennsylvania, her father said.

Ed Carlton told the Pocono Record that the ‘A Thousand Miles’ star was running on May 2 when as she passed a neighbor’s house, a 9-month-old pit bull named Bella ran through its invisible fence and chomped down on the singer’s calf. She hobbled home with a bleeding leg marked with five puncture wounds.

Pocono RecordDoctors are monitoring her for any infections, but she is expected to be fine. The dog, however, may not be so lucky. Animal control officials have put Bella under a 10-day home quarantine, as a precaution against rabies or a change in behavior.

Bella’s owners, Ben and Jo Anne Teichberg, said Ed and Vanessa Carlton confronted them two days after the attack and said they wanted the dog put down.

“They are branding Bella as a dangerous animal and want her put to death,” owner Ben Teichberg told the Record. “They said because Bella is a pit bull, it is known to be bad.”

There were no witnesses to the bite, and the head of dog law enforcement at the state Dept. of Agriculture said Carlton has not filed a written complaint yet.

Carlton, 26, is a three-time Grammy nominated singer-pianist, but has not released an album since 2007.

Here are some new pics of Aja nice and clean. I gave her a bath this morning and she is now very clean, soft, shiny and happy. We skipped her last heat and are debating whether or not to breed her this heat or not. We have gotten about 5 calls in the past week expressing interest in a puppy. I will be making a decision soon as to whether or not we will breed her.

Aja...sqeaky clean

Rottweiler Kills Florida Toddler
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NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (Dec. 13) – Authorities say a Rottweiler attacked and killed a Florida toddler when the boy reached to pick up a cookie he had dropped.

Kevin Doll of the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office says 20-month-old Dallas Walters was at his aunt’s home during a party Saturday night. Doll says the dog attacked Dallas when the boy dropped a cookie and went to grab it.

Family members at the party managed to pry the dog off the child and then took him to a hospital. The boy later died.

Animal control has taken possession of the dog.
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