[Michael Romanos]

A woman, whose youngest son is fifteen, was walking past her nephew's property in New Zealand a few days ago and was fatally attacked by her nephew's two dogs. Not many points for guessing the breed of the dogs - an American Pit Bull Terrier and a Staffordshire Bull Terrier-cross.
It is a continuing lethal weapon - a bit like loaded guns - a bad owner combined with strong fighting-type dogs.
What to do? The dogs were unregistered but what good will registration of dogs do - it won't make them better and generally it would make for better owners. Pit Bulls are one of four breeds of dogs that cannot now be imported into the country, but there is already a good supply of them here though not many left are pure bred.
I have never been fond of any breed of dog with 'bull' in their name apart from English Bull Dogs and I guess French Bull Dogs are perfectly ok.