Helen Keller had a pit bull. So did the Little Rascals. Rachel Ray’s dog Isaboo, whose face is all over the labels of her pet food products, is a pit bull. The dogs in the Buster Brown and RCA logos? Both pit bulls. Spuds MacKenzie, the “spokesdog” for Bud Light beer in the late ‘80s was a bull terrier, one of many types in the family of bully breeds.
The most decorated dog in U.S. military history was Stubby, an American Staffordshire terrier, also known as a pit bull.
According to the American Temperament Test Society, a non-profit group that promotes uniform temperament evaluation of purebred and spayed/neutered mixed-breed dogs, pit bulls rated around the same temperament level as German shepherd dogs and golden retrievers. They scored better than border collies, weimeramers, lhaso apsos and many other common breeds.
