My old dog Rosco, got lucky. He was a pit-sharpei. The pound puts all pits to sleep here too, but for some reason they gave his litter a chance. A friend of mine just bought a house in the bay area (California). His homeowners insurance required that he put 8 ft high fences with special gates and he had to pay a higher premium cause of his pits. Its sad how prejudice people are. Before Rosco started having problems, I could have both him and my australian x off leash. No one would say anything about the aussie being off leash, but they'd flip out about Rosco. Unfortunatly in Rosco's case he did wind up to be an aggressive dog, but I think it was the trauma from parvo and his broken leg, not being a pit. All that typing hurt...just had shoulder surgury. Miss this room already!