"For many decades, pit bulls were not very popular, possibly due to the continuing stigma attached to dog fighting, or possibly because it was well-known that they didn't make great pets. I don't claim to know. But what I do know is that in the 1970s, there was the beginning of a disastrous campaign to rebrand these dogs as "America's Dog." Lillian Rant, president of the Staffordshire Bull Terrier Club of America, led the fight to have Staffie's join the ranks of the American Kennel Club. She began spreading the myth that Staffies love children, and were once referred to as a "nursemaid dog." This is categorically false, and Ms. Rant completely made it up, but it has become one of the more enduring, and devastating, myths."
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