PETALING JAYA: The dog that attacked and killed 74-year-old Yip Sun Wah is a miniature bull terrier cross which is a restricted breed in Malaysia. Restricted breeds were not suitable as household pets, said Veterinary Services Department (DVS) director ...

EVERY time Donna Brady hears the name Bella she winces. “That is the name of my baby, and since she’s gone I haven’t eaten, slept, and I can hardly concentrate because I’m always worried about what’s happened to her,” said the 28-year-old.

A blind man has called for Staffordshire bull terriers to be recognised as dangerous dogs after his guide dog was attacked in Liverpool. Jim Moran, 65, was with his guide dog Carlton when it was attacked by a stray bull terrier outside Broughton Hall ...

Chris Brown is selling at least half a dozen puppies online in a bid to find them good homes after they were born to dogs he keeps at his family home in Virginia. The 2-month-old American pit bull terrier puppies are being sold for $1,000 a pop, which ...

"Nice pit bull," I kept hearing. I'd correct them. "She's a Staffordshire terrier." Finally, I went to the library and looked at dog books. Staffordshire terriers, I learned, are a type of pit bull. Pit bulls, the plodding 1998 Internet told me, when I ...

Brutus is a 3-year-old pit bull terrier mix regretfully turned in by his owner because there were two alpha dogs in the household. For this reason, he should be an only dog. He is house-trained, loves to play fetch and chew on tennis balls, is ...

SEASIDE PARK — Authorities needed a boat to capture a pit bull terrier that bit a police officer at the Jersey Shore. Seaside Park police say the officer had responded to a report of a man allowing the dog to run loose on the L Street beach ...

Case in point: Henry Parker, 31, of the 100 block of McCabe Avenue, Bradley Beach, NJ, chased down his Stafford Pit Bull Terrier on Saturday morning after the dog got away from him. According to the Asbury Park Press, once he caught up to the dog on the ...

Bela the pit bull terrier has been permanently banished from her human companion's North Sacramento mobile home park. The burly dog has been the object of a legal fight between Sonia Miller, who says Bela helps her with mobility problems ...

The 10-month-old Yorkshire terrier was constantly by the college student's side ... But as Karasin walked up Daybreak Avenue near Saddle Street, a dog he believes to be a pit bull appeared out of nowhere, with no leash or owner in sight.