AR-News: (UK) Q: When is a a pit bull terrier not a pit bull? A: When it's a patriot terr

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By Charles Laurence 
(Filed: 11/01/2004) 

Pit bull terriers are to be given a new breed name in America in an effort to 
relaunch them as family-friendly pets instead of fearsome fighting dogs.
 
Kwame Ince, who works at the pound in Harlem, takes one of the pit bulls for 
a walk
The plan was devised by Ed Boks, the director of New York's dog pound, who 
was appalled to learn that nearly 6,000 abandoned or confiscated pit bull 
terriers were put down in the city last year.
Mr Boks, who arrived in New York last month from a similar job in Arizona, 
believes that most pit bulls are "misunderstood", and decided that marketing was 
the answer to the problem. Last week, the pound - officially known as the 
City Animal Care and Control Agency - declared that pit bulls would henceforth be 
known as "New Yorkies".
"I figured that we need to do a little marketing here, however wacky the 
idea, and rebrand this dog," Mr Boks said last week.




full story;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/11/wdog11.xml&sSh
eet=/news/2004/01/11/ixworld.html

"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
Albert Einstein
My choice for fashion: compassion ... They need it more than we do."
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