Pit bull is killed after 'attacking' children!

That kind of biased 'reporting' is so disgusting! The dog had hurt no one! If it had been a collie growling and barking would the cop have shot it?! I don't think so!

First there is no such breed as a 'pit bull'. There is the American Pit Bull Terrier. But many breeds (20+) that are commonly identified as 'pit bulls' among those are Labrador Retrievers, Bull Mastiffs, Rottweillers, Boxers, Patterdale Terriers, and many others.

If you go and look at statistics about 70% of dogs that attack are unneutered males. So the real problem is not spay/neutering your pet.

This should be very enlightening:
http://www.pitbullsontheweb.com/petbull/findpit.html...

Many times news papers and other media label a dog as a 'pit bull' in the news story only to find out later that the dog was actually another breed and then never correct their mistake, or the correction is buried in the back of the paper.
http://www.understand-a-bull.com/Articles/MistakenIdentity/WrongId.htm...

In this one site's list of dog attacks they list 'pit bull type' in one catergory, but as I said before 20 + breeds fit in that 'pit bull type' so the numbers for that category are subject to much scrutiny and disbelief in the accuracy.
http://www.dogsbite.org/bite-study-fatal-attacks.htm...

This page is interesting too:(it's a Canadian page but lots of good info)
http://www.dogwatch.net/fight_ontario_ban/experts_excluded.html...
from the page
"The top 4 biters by breed are German Shepherds, Rottweillers, Cocker Spaniels, and Golden Retrievers.

Bites by "pit bull" type dogs account for less than 5% of all serious bites in Canada."

I do not own a 'pit bull', never have, I likely never will, and not because I think they are vicious by nature.

I was shocked to see how many other breeds of dogs are mistaken for 'pit bulls'. On one of the links about that has you identify the pit bull it took me four tries to get it right, and I thought I was pretty good at dog breed identification.