This is Rider.  Rider is a Pit Bull.  I do not approve of Pit Bulls or names like "Rider" for dogs.  However, Rider now joins, in a page of her own, the millions of other dumb animals with pages of their own on the world wide web.  The picture above was painstakingly set up to be snapped right at dusk.  The idea was to get the ghostly, dim and slightly blurred quality of the classic Bigfoot Video.  This photograph displays, beyond doubt, the existence of a Pit Bull in my back yard.  These photos have put at bay my fears of an extended hairy barking LSD flash back.
The North Hollywood Pit Bull Project will document the growth of Rider, whose breed is known for hostility, jaw strength, random outbursts of misdirected violence and, of course, killing children.

In a picture too dark for details, we see the dog, stretched out and carefree in my backyard.  The dog days of Summer are approaching as the North Hollywood Pit Bull Project enters the month of July.

"According to Dan Knapp of L.A. Animal Services, the main thing about pit bulls is that they give no warning before they attack. He says, 'Most dogs will growl with their ears back...let you know that something is irritating them...pit bulls do not warn. They were bred [trained] not to warn.'"

You see?  Easy to train, easy to breed.

"...the girl's neck was torn apart by the dogs, with which she had played frequently in the past. The dogs belonged to a neighbour. The girl was clutching coins to buy sweets at a neighbourhood store when the dogs attacked with no apparent provocation..."

"Seven-year-old Ebony Quarterman grabbed a baseball bat and tried to fight off the pit bull that had her brother by the throat...'Crush bit his head,' the first-grader said, pointing to the top of her skull. 'He bit his neck, bit his face and spun him around in a circle.'"