Word: doberman
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...Presently, he has about 30 such pets in his chamber, undergoing a freeze-dry process that will take from three to six months, depending on the size of the pet. Jeff charges about $400 to freeze-dry small pets and about $1,800 for large pets like the two Doberman pinschers sitting perfectly still in the softly humming chamber. The dogs are bathed in a mysterious yellow light and surrounded by a Noah's ark menagerie of other perfectly serene-looking pets, all of which would probably be at one another's throats if still alive. A chipmunk, its tiny...
...designer sunglasses and diamond-stud earrings to go with their smart dresses and slacks. Clapping in rhythm, the middle-class crowd jeered, "Down with Noriega! Get out, and let us eat!" When passing motorists blared their horns in approval, riot police poured from trucks bearing the painted image of Doberman attack dogs. Then from the side of the road rolled a truck hauling two water cannons inexplicably emblazoned with powder-blue Smurfs...
...defensive. The name pit bull loosely applies to a crossbred strain of the American Staffordshire terrier and the American pit bullterrier as well as to other varieties. The most ferocious dogs, says Pat Owens, director of the Women's S.P.C.A. of Pennsylvania, are crossbred with German shepherds or Doberman pinschers. Richard Laue of the Northern California Pit Bullterrier Association accuses these "backyard breeders" of producing unpredictable "garbage dogs...
...have a "steady temperament and intense loyalty." Indeed, breeders believe that in time the animal will regain its gentler image of the 1930s, when a pit bull played Pete in the Our Gang films. Only 30 years ago, notes Ed Almeida, a dog trainer in El Monte, Calif., the Doberman was the most vicious of dogs. Now, he says, after years of careful breeding, Dobermans are "big boobs" compared with the pit bulls...
...Urban legends, despite their comtemporary sound, display the same characteristics as older verbal folklore. They pass from person to person by word of mouth, they are retained in group traditions, and they are invariably found in different versions through time and space."--Jan Brunvand, The Choking Doberman and Other "New" Urban Legends...