Curious..

[Kassandra]

Just curious, why did you specifically pick pit bulls to be the attacking dogs?

[Dee]

i'm not the author, but i'm guessing because they are often portrayed in the media as being like that - so it was an easy out (for lack of a better word) - there is that natural assumption

[Kassandra]

I would guess that as well, I just wish that it could have been some "big dogs" rather then specifying, there are after all so many mixes. I will leave it at that.

[Brenda]

Kassandra, Dee is pretty much right. My editor is such a dog lover that it's the only breed she would believe could be capable of ever doing something like that--and even then I was very careful to specify that it was the owner's fault for the way they were trained and raised, not the dogs' fault. I have nothing against pit bulls. My nephew has one and I adore it.