Love for their pets drove Girl Scouts of Folsom’s Junior Troop 3908 to create a wonderful new promotion “Keep Our People and Pets Safe” (KOPPS) which they introduced to the public on Sunday, April 21. 

Working toward their Bronze Award, the eight girls officially launched their promotion at the Folsom Antique Faire where they provided information about creating emergency plans and kits for pets to several hundred visitors. 

The troop also distributed promotional items to help local families get their kits started.  The girls developed their goal of increasing pet owners’ awareness of including their pets in emergency preparedness plans after discussing the recent natural disasters and hearing reports of lost, injured and abandoned animals.

SACRAMENTO, CA - A pit bull attack that left a woman in Stockton dead Thursday has re-ignited a debate about the breed: Is their reputation for violence deserved?

STORY: Woman killed in apparent pit bull attack in Stockton ID'd

Owners of American Staffordshire Terriers competing at Cal Expo's Sacramento Kennel Club Dog Show will tell you their dogs are often mistaken by the public for pit bulls, so they're intimately aware of the public scorn for pit bulls.

That's especially true for Richard Chatigny. After years of raising Amstaffs and other dogs, he and his wife adopted a pit bull named Sadie.

"She's the calmest. She's the most obedient. She's the most accepting of anybody and everybody. She's a great ambassador," Chatigny said of Sadie.