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As a Dorval amendment to its bylaw on sketchy dogs drifts through a monsoon of people weighing in heavily on both sides (no word from either side including the pit bulls, as yet) I have an addendum to my black and white that pit bulls are as trustworthy as wolverines. I don’t care about the other breeds that may supposedly bite, because pit bulls are the ones with the scariest track record (No contest there.) In truth, the following drew me back to the eye of the storm:

A four-year-old boy was fatally attacked in a Detroit suburb a week after my piece was published. The beast was a 27-kilogram pit bull his family was looking after for a friend in their home. (Some friend.) The poor boy’s 14-year-old sister called 911 to say the dog had attacked her brother and her mother was trying to stop the animal by stabbing it with a knife. Police say the family had the dog less than a day when it attacked the boy.

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After my column (‘Dorval had the proposed dangerous dog bylaw right the first time’) was published in late October, I was appalled by the number of people who responded in disagreement. I really wonder how many of them would have done so if their child was brutally killed by an animal bred from the bowels of hell. Would they blame themselves for improperly training (whatever that means in the long run) an animal that has proven to attack its owner despite training even if that was the case?