No - I am not into conspiracy theories re the breed of dog. Insurance companies long ago developed special contract riders excluding specific breeds of dogs known to incur the greatest costs in damages to people. Pit bulls, and related dog breeds, are there in a dollars and cents context; the insurance companies won’t cover damages caused by those breeds (dogo argentino, presa canario,6 cane corso, tosa inu, fila brasileiro and presa mallorquin. Each of these breeds is either a pit bull derivative or was derived from ancestors similar to pit bull ancestors.) Wolf hybrids also cause disproportionate human losses (injury/death).
In the 8-year period from 2005 to 2012, pit bulls killed 151 Americans, about one citizen every 19 days. Sorry, I don’t buy the mistaken identity defense.
You can buy anything you want or not — makes no difference. The fact remains that the media id EVERYTHING as a “pit bull” — and when the retraction comes, it’s buried on page 7 or further back. Coincidence? No, I don’t think so. Furthermore, considering the number of “mixes” in this country it’s astonishing that everything can get so ahem — “accurately identified” in this country. Again, conspiracy? No, but agenda — most definitely. Finally — and there’s really no point in going beyond this post because your sources of info. are suspect, breed i.d. is a very tricky thing and considering the number of times the media gets it wrong, and only OCCASIONALLY corrects their records, one cannot possibly have valid stats on which breeds are the “most dangerous”, “bite the most”, etc... Nor is “pit bull” a valid breed, by the way — further complicating the problem. I never cease to be amazed at the number of conservatives on this site who, after vitiating the media on numerous occasions for not being truthful with anything else, suddenly do an about face when it comes to dog bites and assume that “just this once” they got it right — even when they have clearly stated otherwise. As if the media suddenly became the great arbiters of truth!! Now THAT’S FUNNY!!