Poor dogs. Probably the worse thing to happen to them is that they became the urban dog of choice during the 80's. If that never happened you wouldn't see the bad name the breed has today. You can look up dog incidents, etc.... through the eras and the little fellas never show up till the start of the 80's in any real way. That also corresponds with them becoming a disposable status symbol among some, instead of actually caring for and about the dogs, it became how big and mean can I get this thing before I move on to the next thing.