``Consider this: quite often you will get entire state and county
humane societies and animal regulation departments - pounds, in short;
these are sort of like orphanages, only with lethal injections instead
of Planned Parenthood - establishing a policy of never adopting out
any dog that might be a pit bull, just in case this is one of the
ones that can jump like the very devil, instead of like an angel, or
only like a Basset Hound.  Police and Canine Control Departments are
sadly understaffed; there simply isn't enough money or manpower to do
the testing involved to find out which ones can jump, and the work
would be very dangerous, so they just impound and off anything that
might be a pit bull, just like in The Master & Margarita, where
anything that might be a poet was instantly impounded and psychiatrized -
I don't know if the Soviets of the day had actual proof that Freud said
everyone was a poet, or thought about it, or if it was just their policy
to act as though Freud had said that, but it was fairly effective.  No
jumping in Moscow for a while there, except in secret, or over the wall.''

  Vicki Hearne, Common Knowledge I:2, p.17, Fall 1992,