[Behind Liberal Lines]

If you own such a dog and it kills someone...

So this applies to all dogs or just one deemed on the "big and scary" list?

Funny...you don't hear about, say, Cocker Spaniels killing people. Its almost always pit bulls.

[NapkinUser]

Funny...you don't hear about, say, Cocker Spaniels killing people. Its almost always pit bulls.

It's selective reporting by the media. Pit bulls do kill more than cocker spaniels. They're not comparable animals. But I will say that chows bite more than any other dog, pit bulls included, and no one talks about them because they don't have the jaw pressure to kill like a pit bull.

If on the same day in a small town a pit bull kills someone and a bullmastiff kills someone, the media is going to talk about the pit bull-related death. That's the way it is. Kind of like when the media drummed up "shark attack" fear a few years ago in a year that shark attacks were way down but the media had nothing better to talk about.

[SIDENET]

Funny...you don't hear about, say, Cocker Spaniels killing people. Its almost always pit bulls.

Well, besides the obvious size and strength differences, cockers aren't currently the "in" dog among thugs.