{"id":10952,"date":"2013-02-15T00:20:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T08:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=10952"},"modified":"2013-02-15T00:20:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T08:20:38","slug":"no-insurance-pit-bulls-rottweilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/no-insurance-pit-bulls-rottweilers\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer&#8217;s Drops California Homeowners Insurance for Pit Bulls, Rottweilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bgdoz.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bgdoz.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pit bulls, Rottweilers and Wolf Hybrids (wolf-dogs) are no longer being covered in California homeowner insurance policies issued by Farmer&#8217;s Group, Inc. Insurance.<\/p>\n<p>As I began to write this story about dog bites, I looked down at my leg to see the reminder of my very own bite, an attack from a Labrador Retriever over 15 years ago. I was not bitten by the breeds that are notorious for causing injuries&#8211;breeds that owners soon will pay dearly for in California should their dogs bite someone.\u00a0 In 2012 there were 38 fatal dog bite attacks in the U.S.&#8211;61% or 23 by pit bulls. California and North Carolina led the nation with 4 deaths each&#8211;and 3 out of 4 deaths in California were caused by pit bulls.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/dogs\/california-dog-bites.html\">Read more..<\/a>.&gt;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CALIFORNIA DOG BITE DEATHS 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"imgs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/blog\/dbvictim.jpg\" width=\"314\" height=\"92\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mail deliverer Diane Jenkins (59) was killed by a pit bull in Escondido while on her route.<\/li>\n<li>Tyzhel McWilliams (8-months old) was killed by one of three pit bulls in an apartment where he lived. The child&#8217;s mother had been living with the dogs for two years. In an interview 5 days after the baby&#8217;s death, the mother expressed disbelief that the pit bull named Zulu that &#8220;seemed to watch over the infant like a protective parent&#8221; would take her baby\u2019s life.<\/li>\n<li>Remedios Romero-Solares (30) was mauled to death by one or more American bulldog-mixes in the backyard of a Fallbrook home where she performed housecleaning services.<\/li>\n<li>Esteban Alavez (34) was mauled to death by four pit bulls a homeowner allowed to run loose throughout a neighborhood in Fresno County.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pit bulls, Rottweilers and Wolf Hybrids (wolf-dogs) are no longer being covered in California homeowner insurance policies issued by Farmer&#8217;s Group, Inc. Insurance. As I began to write this story about dog bites, I looked down at my leg to see the reminder of my very own bite, an attack from a Labrador Retriever over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}