Statistically, German Shepherds are almost as dangerous as pit bulls.
According to http://www.texasdogbiteinjurylaw.com/dangerous-dog-breeds.php, the top 3 most dangerous breeds are 1) Pit Bull, 2) Rottweiler, and 3) German Shepherd.
All three of those horrible breeds should be banned, obviously...</sarc>
That’s because maulings are disproportionately visited upon people by pitbulls. That’s why we couldn’t take your post seriously.
And Chihuahuas. They bite and are generally annoying.
No one doubt that the ablity of other large dogs breeds to commit serious attacks, It is the disproportion of the attacks and deaths cause by Pit Bull and pit bull mixes that are be called to attention here.
Take a look at the adoption list at any cities animal shealter and you will find an disproportion. In many cases 70-80% of the dogs listed are Pits and pit mixes,
These dogs are adopted out whole sale to pretty much everyone and anyone but you tell me how may of these dogs go to people with the skills, knowledge and ability to train and maintain?
These dogs far to oftenend up with people who are totally incapable of training and controlling them.
” . . .Preliminary “final” 2017 dog attack data from the U.S. and Canada suggests some good news, in that “only” 989 dogs participated in killing or disfiguring humans, down from the 2016 record 1,075.
But the bad news is that those 989 dogs killed 57 people, 11 more than the previous record of 46 who were killed in 2015.
Pit bulls killed 40 people in 2017, 39 in the U.S. and one in Canada, a total of 12 more people than were killed by pit bulls in 2016 and five more than the previous record of 34 killed in 2015.”
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I read the article you posted on the baby killed by the German Shepherd. This was an horrible, and most likely preventable, tragedy. As are so many.
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The site you took from which you took your figures appears to be using CDC data, which has not collected dogbite data by breed since 1998, and is most effective for historical use.
This is the reason I and others use the data collected by Merritt Clifton, who collects and collates by news articles over the last 35 years, at the website above.