I can't remember what kind of dog it was, but I do know it wasn't a pit bull. That I would've remembered. The bike rider wasn;t hurt badly, nor was the dog. BUT, when the home owner came out, there was a fist fight and he got the worst of it. Anyway, it boiled down to two things: reality and credibility. Reality because the dog should've been confined to the property and credibility because the homeowner had none.