Studies of pre and post breed ban dog-bite-rates in the United Kingdom and Spain concluded that their pit bull breed ban had no effect whatsoever on reducing dog bites.

Italy recently revoked it's breed ban stating the ban had no scientific justification.

Germany has put so many of the dogs to sleep that it is often referred to as a "breed holocaust" in the media.

In fact, the army’s most decorated dog of all time, Sgt. Stubby, was a pit bull and is honored as a WWI hero to this day. In 1903, when the first car crossed the United States, a pit bull was in the passenger seat. And in 1999, when feds seized 3,075 pounds of cocaine in Texas in the largest border drug bust ever, it was a pit bull that sniffed out the contraband.

Trinity, a 2-year-old American Staffordshire Terrier, was, until recently, happily employed as a therapy dog. Four days a week she lived with her owner, psychotherapist Myriam Reynolds, at Denver Children’s Home, providing no-strings-attached love to the teenage boys who make the home their last stop between a troubled youth and an uncertain adulthood.

"We are the last place they would live before (the boys) are emancipated," says Reynolds, adding that Trinity’s love was often the first unconditional affection the boys received. All that changed when Trinity was taken from Reynolds’ Denver residence on Oct. 17 and impounded for several days. Had she attacked one of the boys? No. In fact, she had not bitten anyone, bared her teeth, growled or shown any signs of aggression whatsoever.

Her crime? Her breed.

"My dog was licking the animal control officer. I mean, she didn’t know what was happening," says Reynolds. "There was no complaint at all other than the breed."

Reynolds’ dog is now staying with friends in Breckenridge, but she hopes to get Trinity back eventually. She went to court on Nov. 24 to face the charges of having a pit bull in Denver, and says the judge was dismissing all pit bull cases, as most of the dogs had been put to sleep or removed from the county. Reynolds came close to pleading guilty and letting the case get dismissed. But instead she plead not guilty. She wants to challenge the constitutionality of the law in court–and is hoping the result will be a homecoming for Trinity.

Former Denver resident Howard Margolius knows her pain. When his pit bull, Cyan, a 4-year-old American Pit Bull Terrier, was taken by Denver animal control on Oct. 2, he was shocked.

"It’s a traumatic experience, and my dog never hurt anybody," he says. But Margolius was not about to give his dog up without a fight–even if the fight is not quite popular at the moment.

"I wasn’t political or anything," he says about himself before Cyan was seized.

Now, Margolius and Reynolds are taking their fight to the Denver City Council. They say if they have to, they will sue to try to overturn the breed ban. Margolius goes to court to face the pit bull charges at the end of December and will plead not guilty, as Reynolds did, in order to take the case to trial on constitutional grounds.

Margolius has also hit the streets and the Internet, gathering 300 signatures in Denver from people who also want the breed ban lifted. He says thousands from across the country have signed the petition online, in support of repealing this kind of legislation.

But rather than giving Cyan up or abandoning him to be euthanized at the Denver Animal Shelter, Margolius has decided to move–two blocks down the road to Englewood, and outside the Denver County boundary, after living in his home for six years.

"Isn’t that ridiculous?" he asks. "Is my dog going to be any different two blocks away?"

In Denver this law will never be repealed,Hickenpooper and his bum-chum Kelley would
then have to admit ,after murdering thousands of family pets that this law was a total failure.They
would rather go on wasting taxpayer's dollars fighting their constituents in courts especially
as they have the support of that "self proclaimed war hero"Kory Nelson .
The only way to eradicate this absolutely disgusting law that was created by Adolph Hitler
to wipe out the Jews,is to VOTE them out.
"THE WORLD IS A DANGEROUS PLACE NOT BECAUSE THOSE THAT DO EVIL BUT THOSE THAT LOOK ON AND DO NOTHING"-Ghandhi