[fostermom]

I just emailed her. Said this:

I just read your article "With Best Friends Like This..." which was posted on a discussion board and felt I needed to respond to it. I own two rottweilers. I also foster dogs: rottweilers, labs, goldens, shepherds. I am sorry your dog was attacked by a rottweiler. I am also sorry that you chose to stereotype and promote the stereotyping of this breed because of one animal. I truely hope most people are intelligent enough to not do the same. If we want to play the statistics game (and I work in research and understand how statistics can be manipulated), then most crime (proportionally) is commited by Blacks...so let's ban Blacks. Most car accidents (proportionally) are by teen-agers so let's ban letting teen-agers drive until aged 21. Most dog bites are by small dogs so lets ban all small breeds!!

My rottweilers are well socialized and sociable, well trained, gentle dogs. My adult male who started his life out as a back-yard dog and so statistically should have been one of your unstable, killer rottweilers just played mother hen to two four week old kittens I had found. The most aggressive (dog/food aggressive) dog I fostered was a female golden. My rotti was attacked while I was walking him down the sidewalk on leash by a lab mix that had slipped his collar. My rotti didn't even defend himself....I had to keep swinging at the lab with my purse! If you had bothered to check the AKC breed description, you would have seen the rottweiler described as a calm, stable temperment. What is needed is more responsible ownership, not breed bans.