Tuesday uncovered a few more media outlets covering the story of the eleven-year-old boy ordering his dog to attack other children.
I won’t be so presumptious as to pretend that letters to the editors from myself and others made a difference. It’s probably just the rest of the news organizations catching up to the Toronto Star.
The most detailed story to-date is, surprisingly, from the Vancouver Province (the story happened in Toronto).
Interesting that two of these three organizations chose to identify the dog as a German Shepherd rather than the Irish Wolfhound / German Shepherd mix that was reported in the original story.
I am constantly reiterating that breed is the least important factor in dog bites. In this case, we have unsupervised children, a dog with a biting history, and a boy that decides to settle his arguments with the others by ordering his dog to attack. Clearly, breed was not the issue here.
It still bothers me, however, when I see these inconsistencies, because it is these very media reports that politicians use to justify breed banning.