If the news was fair and balanced, they would report such attacks by other dog breeds as well. Pit bulls do attack humans less frequently than most other dog breeds.
Would like to look at the stats for that. Pit bulls still rank #1 for kills.
True that but pits are much more likely to maim or kill.
What is the rate of death, serious injury, dismemberment and scars for pit bulls vs other breeds?
Most = >50%. What is the source of your information?
<>If the news was fair and balanced, they would report such attacks by other dog breeds as well.<>
You mean news like this:
Arizona neighborhood terrorized by feral packs of abandoned CHIHUAHUAS
>>>If the news was fair and balanced, they would report such attacks by other dog breeds as well. Pit bulls do attack humans less frequently than most other dog breeds.<<<
Roughly two thirds of all dog attack fatalities involve Pit Bulls, which make up only about 5% of the dog population.
The vast majority of the hundreds of other dog breeds either never kill humans or kill them only, very, very rarely (like 1 in 20 years or more).
Most stories about dogs killing humans are about Pit Bulls, because most of such killings are BY Pit Bulls.
rjsimmon and I have both asked you for the stats or source of that information. You've ignored us both.
Does this mean there isn't any data to back this up, and you pulled this statement out of your imagination?
I don't care if you're counting breeds according to the AKC, the UKC, the CKC, the NZKC, the ANKC, or the Fédération Cynologique Internationale. Where is your data than >50% of breeds recognized by one of those groups attack humans more than pit bulls do?
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.
A good Doberman is 10x the guard dog a pit is.
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?