I have been told, repeatedly, that attacks like this are rare.
” Corpus Christi: 30th U.S. dog attack fatality of 2023 is 21st by pit bull
JUNE 9, 2023 BY MERRITT CLIFTON
Corpus Christi animal control chief Joel Sizemore calls pit bull attacks “extremely rare” over victim’s dead body
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas—Attacked on May 31, 2023 while dog-sitting her adult daughter’s pit bull, Rita Maria Vasquez, 58, of Corpus Christi, Texas, three days later died from her injuries.
Vasquez thus became the 30th U.S. dog attack fatality of 2023, and the 21st person in the U.S. in 2023 to be killed by one or more pit bulls.
The U.S., in just under six months, has had more fatal dog attacks than in any full year before 2012, though the average since then has been 38, and more fatal attacks by pit bulls than in any full year before 2009, with an average since then of 33. . .” .
- - - From “Animals24-7” blog, written from news reports.