Tiffany Deimund, who directs the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri, said in a story in Tuesday's edition that pit bulls are "status symbols." Deimund did not specify the neighborhoods in which those dogs are status symbols. Cape Girardeau city officials have said that the dogs are popular in the southern and northeastern parts of the city.
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