Here's an article I came across where the media actually reported a good story on a one of the so-called "dangerous" breeds!
Dog rushes to help
Pit bull ran outside to rescue woman stranded in cold
By DEREK PUDDICOMBE, Ottawa Sun
IT WAS about -40C and Noella Mitchell lay helpless on the handicap ramp leading up to her home. She would soon be staring into the eyes of a pit bull and thinking she was about to die. The 42-year-old woman left her Craig Henry home one very cold morning last January to complete an errand. When she returned about 30 minutes later, she lost her balance and fell to the ground.
Mitchell, who suffers from Graves' Disease which causes muscular weakness, wasn't able to pull herself up. Her attempts to right herself using her walker were futile.
Before her fall, she was able to open the door enough so if somebody was inside they would have been able to hear her cries for help. However, her two children and a friend of her son's living at the house had already left for the day.
Two months earlier, her son had come to his mother and asked if a friend could stay with them for a while. Mitchell hesitated because the boarder came with Cloe, a two-year-old female pit bull.
ATTACKED AS CHILD
Mitchell is dreadfully afraid of dogs. When she was a 10-year-old girl living in Montreal, she was attacked by a German Shepherd.
When Mitchell finally agreed to her son's request, it was on the condition that since she is confined to the first floor of the home, Cloe would be kept upstairs at all times.
On the ramp with her leg lying partially in the snow, Mitchell could hear the dog upstairs clawing at the bedroom door and moments later she looked up to see Cloe running towards her.
"When I saw her, I thought I was dead," she said.
But to her surprise, Mitchell said Cloe began licking her face and trying to bring attention to her fall. "She sat there beside me howling and barking and she started to lick the side of my legs."
At one point, the dog attempted to pull Mitchell inside the house by grabbing onto her jacket.
After about 30 minutes outside, the owner of the dog arrived home and helped Mitchell inside.
She figures Cloe, determined to rush to her aid, somehow managed to get the bedroom door open.
"I will never lock her up again," said Mitchell.