Because the news likes to report pitbull attacks more than others...if you look up dog bite statistics small dogs and golden retrievers bite more people than pit bulls, but people love a pitbull attack story...not to mention not every square headed dog is a pit bull. Any dog regardless of breed...
We had a lab american staffordshire mix that would share his food bowl and sleep with our cats inside or out, but he killed 13 strays in 2 years...He was the most amazing dog. He never left our property except to walk my kids to the bus in the mornings, and down in the evenings. He was a strange...
I am super sorry this happened...but it also makes me feel super lucky...all of our neighbors have chickens so all of our neighbors dogs are used to chickens, and between all the dogs watching all the various chickens nothing comes around at all...every once in awhile a strange hound dog will...