Pit bull kills 91-year-old Detroit woman

and dog reacted?

Was reading about face transplant patient and the reason she lost face was mauled by dog after she attempted suicide.

and attack people, but they have a nasty reputation of doing just that.

I've known a lot of pit bulls that were friendly happy go lucky slobs of dogs. But you just never know when.

makes them unpredictable. I too have seen many a loving pitbull, but they are unpredictable. Truly a tragedy.

I will never not have dogs and I have never had one I would not trust with my life. I have an incredibly strong affinity to them and have developed intuitive attachments with some of my previous beloved dogs that are truly hard to explain. But, I know better than to select a very unpredictable breed like that unless I could physically control it. St. Bernards can also be unpredictable--especially around children. Given their immense size, I'd probably not have one for that reason.

Having said that, I want to comment on the expressed fears over the women who received the face transplant after her own dog mutilated her face. There is something extremely bizarre about this story and I doubt we've heard the whole truth. But, as has been reported, she was in a drug-induced coma (suicide attempt?) I could imagine a frantic dog trying to rouse her might have inadvertently caused such damage. If it were a lab, as some accounts have said, that is the only way I could imagine it happening. I've yet to see a lab who I would not trust implicitly. There are always exceptions, of course... just as there are with people.

What a horrible thing to have happen.