Wheeling City Councilman Barry Crow says he is reacting to several recent dog attacks. Crow says banning pit bulls could save a life. Crow says he is reacting to recent dog attacks in Wheeling.

"I don't know if we're going to completely ban them. That is what I am going to recommend. They're a dangerous animal. It's not like having a mixed bread dog."

Councilman Crow wants to use the Cincinnati, OH law that bans pit bulls and other vicious dogs as a model. The current Cincinnati law says a "vicious dog" is one that

has inflicted severe injury on a person; has been trained for dog fighting; is a pit bull; or has been used during a crime.

But one Wheeling Island pit bull owner says that law would drive her out.

"I'd move out of the state. I wouldn't give up my dog. [My dog is like] my kid," said pit bull owner, Corbi Hickman.

Hickmans mailman says he can appreciate the law.

"You take something out of the wild and it doesn't matter how you treat is it still has wild in it," said Mail carrier, Bruce McNeil.

Hickman says that's not true.

"It's all how you raise them. If you raise them sweet and kind they're sweet and kind just like Samson here."

But councilman crow plans to continue his effort to ban this bread he says is naturally dangerous.

Barbara Anderson, News9