In other words, the law doesn’t work
A girl was attacked by a pit bull. The owner of the dog did not follow Ohio’s law that requires owners of vicious dogs (which includes all pit bulls) to have $100K in insurance. So, an irresponsible dog owner who allows is dog to run loose, which is certainly a violation of leash laws that most cities have, also doesn’t obey insurance laws. Go figure.
Ohio’s law, which labels pit bulls as vicious by default, should be re-written to classify dogs as vicious once they act, you know, viciously.
June 7th, 2005 at 12:07 pm
[…] dog fighting. And, of course, people predisposed to keep dogs that are mean are typically not predisposed to obeying the law. Pit bulls have better than […]
August 17th, 2004 at 3:27 pm
I buy that… I have ran into some pretty scary cocker spanials in my day.