And that is per owner not per dog.

This is a quality-of-life project where the public benefits by one, getting rid of (a) dilapidated building and, by two, increasing the value of the property, thereby increasing the tax revenue for District 87 and the city.

It's hard to believe that in the entire county there are only 360 pit bulls. To me, the obvious inference is that a large number of pit bulls are not registered.

My only rule: If you show up with fleas, I kill the owner and the dog.

It's the owner who makes a dog mean. But if you teach a dog to be gentle and calm, that's how it will be.

I loved Duncan and I loved being his mother but I wasn't sure I was prepared to be only his mother. Before we were even married, when Russell and I had gotten our dog, Humbert, I had walked him early one morning, and as I stood on a line for coffee, someone had offered him a dog treat. "I always ask the mommy first," she said, looking at him expectantly. "Oh, I'm not his mother," I said, "I'm just his...friend," and she looked at me with complete contempt. "You're his mother," she had scolded, "Poor dog.