Posted on 02/18/2014 12:54:08 PM PST by Arthurio
A pit bull attack left a 2-year-old girl in critical condition Monday morning and after being admit to a local area hospital, the girl died as a result of her injuries.
According to KWTX, the 2-year-old girl was from Temple Texas and has been identified as Je’vaeh Mayes. Corporal Christopher Wilcox told reporters that officers were dispatched at around 11:30 am Monday morning to a home in the 800 block of East Avenue E. with reports of a dog bite.
KBTX stated that the dog which allegedly bit the girl was a pit bull that the family had been watching for a friend. The dog was in the backyard at the time of the alleged attack. 2-year-old Mayes had wandered into the backyard and was reportedly bit by the pit bull at that time. The girl’s parents say they didn’t know that their daughter had wandered out into the backyard.
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By percentage of the breed as pets in our country, Pit bulls attack more than 1.5 times as much as rotts, 2 times more than german shepherds and then the math really goes off the charts.
Pit bulls make up less than 10% of the pet dog population but account for the vast majority of dog attacks that cause hospitalization and death. That is the truth. I don't know where other numbers come from but these numbers come from the US Center For Disease Control.
The point is that a FReeper stated as fact that "[p]it bulls do attack humans less frequently than most other dog breeds."
I've never seen any data to support that statement. If that is a true statement, then I'd like to know. Knowledge is power, particularly with this controversial subject.
Two FReepers have asked to know the source of that stated fact.
After conducting some research on my own, and after being ignored by the FReeper who made that statement as fact, I now believe there wasn't, isn't, and is unlikely to be any report, statistic, study, or bubble gum wrapper supporting that statement.
“Pit bulls are popular among Holder’s People and urban hipsters”
And:
motorcycle gang members
meth makers and distributors
Smart move!
It should be illegal to breed these dogs and owners should be required to carry liability insurance the absence of which would then result in forfeiture of ownership.
For starters, google is one’s good friend when looking to debunk myths about pit bulls. Looking at the first couple pages by googling pit bull myths or pit bull myths debunked, for example, can give some insight. The facts are that pit bulls have been owned by criminals and those with tendencies for criminal behavior more often than other dogs and it is the behavior of the owners that made them dangerous. Also, pit bulls are often too difficult to classify for groups like the CDC, which could for example classify American bulldogs and similar breeds as “pit bulls”, for starters. Studies showing the tendencies for aggression in pit bulls relative to other breeds, under the presumption that they are raised by owners who know how to train and work with a dog correctly, buts them below many other breeds, including, for example, poodles and labradors.
A good Doberman is 10x the guard dog a pit is.
True, and a doberman with an owner who isn’t up to the challenge is potentially 10x more dangerous than a pit bull, if not more so.
Assuming that's true (and it might be because other breeds are more common), would you also contend that pit bull attacks are no more serious than the attacks of other dog breeds?
It’s kind of like the fairyland US mainstream media...knockout gamers are colorless, Obama is awesome and the scary guys are Ted Cruz and the Koch Brothers, not Schumer and Soros.
People that can’t raise a doberman right probably couldn’t raise a labrador right and probably shouldn’t own a dog.
Please direct me to one page, one study, one statistic that says pit bulls are less likely to bite than most other breeds.
With 300+ dog breeds recognized, and 160+ recognized for AKC showing, telling me that poodles and labradors bite more often than pit bulls falls 158 to 298 breeds short of supporting your 'fact.'
I will grant that when pit bulls do attack, it is usually going to be more serious than with other dogs, but that is more related tot he fact that pit bulls are stronger with more powerful jaws than most other breeds and so naturally it follows that if there is a pit bull attack it is going to be more dangerous.
The studies are often difficult to decipher because the classifications of breeds are often done improperly, so the more reliable studies are those that show aggression tendencies among different breeds assuming their owners raise them essentially the same.
Could you please direct me to the "reliable" studies on aggression tendencies? It would be helpful if these pit bull myth debunking sites referred to them instead of to statistics that are debunked by pit bull myth debunking site debunking sites.
And those classifications are used to label pit bulls as the dog that commits the most attack. In those studies, little attempt is made to differentiate between a true pit bull vs a Mastiff or a bulldog or a boxer.
Boy, ya just know Avenue E isn't in a nice neighborhood.
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