The asking price was $1,200 a pup — high for what could have been giveaway mongrels. But these critters‘ grandfather was Bane, the nefarious attack dog — bred by prison inmates — who mauled and killed a young San Francisco soccer coach last spring. Thus the ad’s sales pitch: “Bad to the bone.” It might as well have read: “Guaranteed killer pooches.”The reporters of an August 4 Times story (following an earlier Daily Breeze report) on the dogs talked to the vendor, Lennox resident Carolyn Murphy, and to victim Diane Whipple‘s domestic partner, who raged at the injustice. They talked to the prosecutor in San Francisco. Everyone but Murphy sounded appalled.
Source: Animal Nature | L.A. Weekly