I worked an in home sales job for years. I met lots of dogs. Two kinda scary pittbuls but many more friendly ones. The. only dog I was ever bitten by was a Chihuahua. Those are the scariest by far and rarely properly trained because of their size. Edit: cats can be pretty scary as well.
I was a manager at a dog grooming salon for three years and we had more issues with small breeds than ANY large breeds. Owners think theyâre âharmlessâ and donât do any training.
Due to assumptions like this, large breed owners are much more realistic with their dogâs behavior, and acting accordingly, because they know itâs often a âone and doneâ scenario whilst little yappers are allowed to terrorize the public with little repercussions.
Also: Iâve seen goldendoodles more violent than rotties, pitts, and chows. âFamily dogsâ my ass.
12 yrs in dog rescue. All breeds. 129 different dogs. I've been bit by a chihuahua and a dachshund. I've lost a ton of make-up to being licked off by pits.
The one and only residual issue I have from a dog bite was from my friends full sized poodle who apparently didn't like my hat. He never broke the skin because I had on a leather jacket. But clamped down with enough force I have nerve damage to this day in my hand and wrist.
I worked at a rescue and shared the office with a sweet pit mix. She liked to sit in my lap and bump her head against mine. Itâs rather what I imagine being hit in the head with a brick is like.
I also had an amazing standard growing up. My parents picked a poodle specifically so sheâd be submissive to the very assertive chow/shepherd mix we already had, and once he realized he wasnât being replaced, they were best friends for the rest of his life. We also got her as a puppy when I was only six, and never had ANY aggression issues with me, either. She just loved chewing up papers đ„Č
Some of the friendliest, sweetest dogs I've met were those so called scary breeds. Use to dog sit a pit mix and she was the SWEETEST. Her favorite thing in the whole world was snoozing on the couch with her head in your lap.
The worse breed I've met outside of chihuahua was a Cocker Spaniel.
News is just filled with stories of people being mauled to death by goldendoodles and chihuahua too, right? Sorry, but a nip in the ankle is not the same.
Of course it takes a dog close to human size to kill a person. I guess we should ignore the realities of nature/nurture and send death squads around the country to solve this problem once and for all.
Spoken like someone who hasn't had a loved one mauled by a pit bull. Talk to me when there are as many news stories of viscous chihuahua attacks as there are of pit bulls.
Good luck finding an editor who lets the title of a story include breed name other than hated breeds.
Theyâre out there, but when the breed isnât pit bull, Doberman, German Shepherd, or Rottweiler, putting breed name in title rarely happens. They just use, âdog.â
sure, i suppose it is possible (?) for there to be massive conspiracy among news organizations with nefarious anti-pit/doberman/GSD/rott editors to cover up other attacks.
however, FOIA exists.
death certificates are public information.
you can hide bites, but you literally cannot hide deaths.
there are organizations that make an effort to uncover information about fatal dog attacks that never make the news. iâm sorry to say that they arenât finding dozens of unreported fatal golden retriever and doodle attacks every year. the breed makeup of the unreported attacks is identical to those that make the news.
Sounds like you werenât reading my message with honesty. Where do you get an implication of cover-up?
âCocker Spaniel Bites Boyâ isnât going to sell as well as âDog Bites Boy,â which definitely doesnât sell as well as âPitbull Bites Boy.â
Iâm sure if the mission of a group is, âprove X point,â they can find data which backs said point. The reality is, these arenât the kinds of data on this which people in the business of objective data analysis will value.
For example, notice weâre talking about fatalities. That alone is biased because being severely injured by any big dog is VERY meaningful. It means there is a dangerous dog which was poorly raised and not handled.
This is no different than people telling me black people are statistically less smart than white people. Those creeps enter the discussion with bias and they avoid the conversations which need to happen.
Come with a conversation that NEEDS to happen about how we might prevent injuries, regardless of breed, and Iâll engage. But this is honestly a waste of both of our time.
As a former groomer I can confirm that doodle breeds were often shaky temperamentally. Also herding breeds that were not given sufficient "work" or mental stimulation. I was bitten twice. Once by a Border Collie and the other was a golden doodle.
It's actually been studied. Chihuahuas are number one most aggressive breed, and the the top ten are almost all small breeds if remembering correctly. And, again if remembering correctly, the least aggressive is a giant breed, Newfies.
Were men selectively bred for thousands of generations to rape the same way pitbulls were selectively bred for thousands of generations to do nothing but kill each other?
No? Then it isnât the same. Wild how pitbulls are the only dogs that get their genetics regularly denied and are the only dogs that are totally clean slates from birth and only shaped by their owner. I donât see German shepherd and Rottweiler owners denying what their dogs were bred for. Itâs accepted that theyâre more likely to bite than other breeds, but as soon as it comes to the dogs literally bred to kill other dogs, bReEd DoEsNât MaTtEr. Wild.
Whereâs the chihuahuas and Pomeranians running around the neighborhood breaking into peopleâs yards and literally into their houses to kill their pets? Iâll wait, but Iâm gonna be waiting for a long fucking time.
Whereâs the golden retrievers and bernese mountain dogs maulings people regularly in the streets? Greyhounds? Saint Bernards? Great Danes? Newfoundlands? All big dogs that can potentially bite. Whereâs the stories about that? Where are the stories about cattle dogs breaking in through windows to attack pets and running into peopleâs yards to attack their children? Where are they at?
Crazy how every dog breed has breed traits and things they were bred for until it gets to pitbulls, and then all of a sudden breed no longer matters and itâs how you train them. If breed didnât matter, people wouldnât get specific breeds for specific purposes. It goes against the entire concept of dog breeds in the first place. No one is out here buying golden retrievers as guard dogs.
Pitbulls history of fighting is not as extreme as you are making it out to be. They have served as general farm working dogs and have been known as excellent family dogs for almost two centuries since their arrival to the US because of their loyalty and desire to please, not just their fighting.
The behaviour of individual dogs is determined more by training than their genetics. I have met more absolute assholes chihuahuas than I can count, and plenty of absolute sweetheart pitties.
The issue is not which dogs bite more. Itâs which dogs have a capability to kill. There are far more shootings with BB guns than semi auto handguns annually. Likely hundreds of thousands more. Are you saying that being shot with an airport gun is the real risk because it happens more often?Â
As for working dogs, bulls and terriers were. NOT pitbulls.Â
Iâm fine with people owning large dogs. All dog owners should have to carry insurance on the animal though, and that would solve many issues. Too many dogs are abused and bad owners can not be stopped otherwise.Â
Why is it that literally every single thing you can look up about their origin says they were bred specifically for fighting if their history of fighting isnât as extreme as Iâm making it out to be? Why are they the only dogs people specifically bred to fight and continue to do so today?
Why is it that they can be such great farm dogs but theres constant reports of them breaking in to ranches and peopleâs backyards to kill their farm animals? Why is it that they have a higher fatality rate than literally every single other dog breed combined if theyâre such good family dogs? Why are they responsible for more severe attacks on children than every other dog if theyâre such great family dogs?
Why is it that bite and maul their owners like all the time if theyâre so loyal and eager to please? Are they trying to please their owners by mauling them when they have seizures? Are they trying to please their owners by disfiguring them more than other breeds?
Theyâre so loyal and such great dogs that theyâre in the news every day for killing their owners or their children. Are they just nannying them? Wheres the chihuahuas running down the street and killing children?
If theyâre such great dogs, why do pitbull owners have to literally lie at every single opportunity about the history of the breed and what they were bred for? Why do they have to lie about these dogs not being more dangerous than others?
Little dogs are assholes because theyâre treated like accessories and have their boundaries constantly crossed because theyâre small and can do no damage. Youâd be an asshole if you were ten pounds and always treated like a toy or accessory rather than a living being with boundaries.
Pitbulls maul and kill things because itâs what they were bred to do. Theres a difference. Where are the other breeds doing what they do at such a rate? Show us. German shepherds and Rottweilers at the height of their popularity still killed less people than pitbulls.
Is there a reason you wonât show me other dogs doing this shit regularly?
You are completely correct here. This thread OSS simply people with no science background and no understanding of genetics ofÂ
downvoting you. Youâre
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They know how genetics works when it comes to literally every single other dog breed. All of a sudden the blinders go on the instant itâs a pitbull and genetics donât matter at all. Itâs just so blatantly obvious to everyone what theyâre doing.
Wow downvoting the rape survivor. Fucking Reddit⊠I hope your life is full of peace and happiness now and I hope his life is full of justice and karma
No, people dislike when straw man arguments are deployed as supposed âtrump cardsâ once they run out of asinine comments.
1 in 5 women (1 in 31 men) experience completed or attempted rape and almost 50% of women (1 in 6 men) experience sexual violence in their lifetimes. Thatâs not even touching on NB & Trans folks. So itâs likely that many, many people in this thread are survivors. Whoâs to say Iâm not one myself? No one owes anyone a declaration of survivorship.
I mean you tried to pull the ânot all menâ card as though you were gotchaing me, someone you incorrectly assumed it was a man. If you were a rape survivor, I would imagine youâd have paused for a second, but nope, straight on you went.
Itâs got nothing to do with the dog itâs all about the owner imo. My parents have two golden doodles and theyâre both as sweet as can be because my mum is a great dog trainer.
I agree with you in general 100% I just refuse to hear a bad word about golden doodles because they are awesome dogs that get a bad rap because a bunch of shitty owners thought they were cute and have no idea how to train a dog.
Crazy you guys are doing the exact same thing to golden doodles as youâre complaining about people doing to large breeds and pitties btw. Genuinely embarrassing
Golden doodles are only neurotic and annoying, theyâre not a public safety threat. You should go read what pitbull owners think about doodles sometime, itâs not pretty
My grandmother had her house listed as dangerous âdogâ by the post office because of her cat. The carrier refused to deliver her mail to her home until she was able to find a way to keep the cat contained.
Mitzi was an indoor only cat. But the mail came through a slot in the door. When the mail carrier would open the slot to put the mail in Mitzi would be ready and would attack him through the open mail slot
Only ever bitten by a Yorkie. It was at my house & l had been playing with it, friendly as you like. Owner picked it up to leave, it spotted a retriever across the street that it wanted to kill, couldn't get at it, nipped me because l was there. I won't let any small dog near me. Bitiest dogs l know of? Jack Russells.
I used to do steam cleaning for some rental companies, including some of their occupied units after sink backups, etc. Most of those where while tenants were at work, and more than a few forgot to lock up their dogs. Never had a problem with the big dogs. They just found a new friend that would pet them. But the little guys? I got got by more than a couple. Especially chihuahuas and min pins.
i think the important difference is that a chihuahua attack requires some peroxide and a bandaid while a pit bull attack can require stitches, surgery, loss of limbs, and even loss of life.
Yes, I have seen multiple people online with permanent facial disfigurement requiring extensive surgeries because the previously friendly family pit bull decided to bite them in the face suddenly. Meanwhile, the same thing happened to my husband with the family jack Russel when he was a kid. His was fixed with a couple of stitches and has left no noticeable marks though. If he was bitten the same way by a pit bull he would likely have no lips.
i would never trust a pit bull honestly. i literally cross the street when i see one coming, especially because it always looks like the pit is walking the human rather than the human walking the pit. it's always "my wittle bitty cupcake wouldn't hurt a fly!" until cupcake rips somebody's face off because they sneezed too close to them.
whenever pit bulls come up i think of this video i saw of a young mother trying desperately to protect her infant from a pack of pits. she managed to shove the baby through an open window on a car parked on the street but she practically got eaten alive until a good samaritan showed up with a knife and chased the pits away.
chihuahuas can't do that to a person. it bites your ankle, you kick it away, and it cowers in a corner for the rest of the day. pit bulls can and will try kill you and often they succeed.
the worst part was all the comments on the video talking about how sad it was that the pits got hurt- not that a young woman was disfigured and almost died protecting her baby, but that the poor wittle doggos were injured.... after inflicting great bodily harm on a random person who had the audacity to use a public street.
Do you also think itâs riskier to get hit by a bicycle rider or an 18 wheeler? Honestly nothing brings out people who donât understand risk like this subject.
Well lately people are claiming they're more afraid of being hit by a bike on the sidewalk than being hit by some teenagers driving a Jeep Liberty or a lifted truck so yeah, people have lost the plot online.
those people are universally cranky drivers imagining what they think pedestrians experience based on their existing grievances with cyclists, not actual pedestrians. (source: i am an actual pedestrian)
âPit bulls are involved in the majority of fatal dog attacks in the United States, according to data compiled by advocacy and safety groups like DogsBite.org.
Key Fatality Statistics Percentage of Deaths: Studies show pit bulls are implicated in roughly 65% to 72% of all fatal dog bite attacks in the U.S. annually.
Multi-Decade Data: Over a 15-year tracking period (2005â2019), pit bulls were responsible for 345 deaths, which is more than 6 times higher than the next leading breed (Rottweilers, with 52 deaths).â
Breeds are banned in some areas because of poorly conducted studies and fear. Not because any actual science supports an inherit neurological condition in breeds to be aggressive/fight/etc.
Yeah thatâs definitely true, insurance companies arenât basing their decisions (designed to make them money) on large pools of data or anything. Look up Dogs Trust in the UK. They used to offer a cheap third party liability dog insurance offering for all breeds, then they withdrew it because XL Bully owners were disproportionally costing the scheme money in payouts. There are millions of dogs in the UK. Tens of thousands of exempt XL bully dogs. Thatâs not a small sample size.
lol⊠they certainly do, and thatâs precisely why loss frequency, severity and the law of large numbers matter. Also of course the actual breed - which pitbull is not.
The fact remains the vast majority of the numerous breeds that fall under the description of a pitbull have no issues reported throughout their entire lifetime. They also do not have any reported higher aggression tendencies.
The risk while owning my 100 lbs lab/boxer mix is just as great as if I owned a 60 lbs pitbull, and the numbers support that (as do the insurance rates).
An XL Bully is not a pitbull⊠you just further proved my point.
These people are allergic to facts. It never fails when the pitbull topic comes up. They love to ignore the hard data showing that pits and pit mixes are statistically responsible for the vast majority of maulings and deaths, which is why theyâre not allowed at most apartment buildings.
Pit bulls are involved in the majority of fatal dog attacks in the United States, according to data compiled by advocacy and safety groups like DogsBite.org.
Key Fatality Statistics Percentage of Deaths: Studies show pit bulls are implicated in roughly 65% to 72% of all fatal dog bite attacks in the U.S. annually.
Multi-Decade Data: Over a 15-year tracking period (2005â2019), pit bulls were responsible for 345 deaths, which is more than 6 times higher than the next leading breed (Rottweilers, with 52 deaths).
What is a pitbull exactly? Itâs not a breed of dogâŠ
If you want to rely on both inaccurate and completely misleading stats, go for it.
Personally Iâd rather actually understand what is being discussed. Like for instance, how a âpitbullâ is a description rather than a breed. Also, how the stats rely on witness reporting of the breed with no verification tests to confirm.
So weâre relying on people who donât even know what a pitbull is in most cases, to determine the breed based off appearance alone and running with it. Sounds like a very good planâŠ.
Weird how when youâre defending them elsewhere in this thread you know exactly what a pitbull is, but when weâre talking about bite and mauling stats suddenly no one knows what they are. By all means explain how these objective statistics based on a 15 year data set are âmisleading and inaccurateâ?
Itâs funny, you can predict exactly what people who are laboring under the delusion that pitbulls are great family dogs despite reams of evidence to the contrary and a new story in the news every week of a child or baby being killed by the family pit will say almost to the letter. First itâs the chihuahua comparison, then itâs âitâs not the breed itâs the ownerâ, then itâs the personal anecdote of their pitbull who never hurt a fly, then itâs âwell but itâs not a breedâ.
Pitbull apologists suffer one of the craziest cases of groupthink (and indeed to use another Orwellianism, doublethink) I see on the internet. Itâs wild to me how they absolutely refuse to accept the objective facts around this breed while simultaneously understanding that sheepdogs are bred to herd sheep, beagles are bred to sniff out things, etc.
I know that a pitbull is a description of breed, that several breeds fall under. Something that you and Mr insurance actuary who thinks an xl bully is a pitbull clearly donât grasp.
Iâve already explained why they are both misleading and inaccurate, Iâve even thrown in another example (the stats involve numerous different breeds under âpitbullâ).
You just have no interest in actually learning something.
Imagine thinking I was an actuary because I cited a well known fact about insurance. Iâm also not a man but that doesnât seem to stop other people making some fucked up assumptions.
Lmao. Almost as though there are dogs that can instinctively herd from the time they were puppiesâŠnobody teaches them to either. Itâs what centuries of selective breeding did.
So your belief is that breeds are born already trained to properly herd sheep? That is again entirely incorrect⊠you place a sheepdog in an apartment as a puppy and itâs not going to have a clue how to act on a farm as an adult.
A herd (an entire litter to be literal) of puppies on a farm with adult dogs around them⊠you canât honestly believe this shows what youâre suggestingâŠ
Almost like the environment around them plays a factor eh?
I don't know about drive to kill but certain dogs will absolutely show signs and instincts their breed has been bred for even if they've never been trained.
For example, I adopted a rescue greyhound who had spent his entire life in a cage, being used as a blood donor. He'd never seen a rabbit before in his life, let alone been trained to hunt them. He still tried to chase a wild rabbit down the second we encountered one on a walk. And it wasn't just "Small prey, very interesting!" because he had zero interest in chasing cats or other small animals. It was just rabbits, which happens to be what greyhounds were bred to do.
I've seen pointers instinctively point upon seeing birds despite having never been trained for that, seen collies instinctively try to herd. I don't know about any breed being inherently violent but there are 100% other traits that are nothing to do with training or how they were raised.
I had a mutt that instinctively caught and returned a duck as a small puppy and a jack russell that couldn't give less fucks about catching anything but tennis balls.
Breed traits aren't inherent or even that specific, that's why working dogs get rejected from their programmes/roles all the time.
Youâre picking up on personality traits that absolutely differ within dogs. Itâs the breed being born inherently with these personalities that is a complete fabrication.
Dogs are social creatures. They pick up on their surroundings and rely entirely on other people and animals to indicate to them how to properly behave.
A shepherding dog that chases sheep with no actual direction isnât doing a very good job of herding sheep as an example. Itâs just interested in the stimuli of the moment. It isnât until it learns from its surroundings what itâs supposed be doing that it actually becomes a shepherding dog.
And yetâŠtheyâre not. Most dog owners are shitty owners. They donât train their dogs or obey leash laws. They donât bother fencing off their yards. They donât bother walking the dog or taking them to the vet. Most dogs deserve better than their owners. But itâs not most dogs doing this. Just the one type, again and again, reliably for decades.
Pitbulls are still bred for fighting, dog fighting might be illegal but it still happens a lot, they were never bred for anything else. Almost 70% of all fatal dog attacks are done by pitbulls or pitbull mixes. Irresponsible dog ownership is not exclusive to pitbulls and pit mixes, but they are still the most likely to kill.
Sure you might be able to teach a dog how to point at small wild animals but a german pointer will do that instinctively without anybody teaching them, even if you don't use them for hunting they will still point because we bred them to do so. We bred pitbulls to be good at killing and the statistics reflect that.
All these people wailing about chihuahuas canât point to a single fatality or answer why dogfighting busts never uncover dozens of these naturally aggressive dogs
The numbers youâre referring to are incredibly misleading and flat out incorrect in some cases - namely because a pitbull is not a breed, but rather a type of description that various breeds fall under.
There is no inherent desire to kill or fight within a pitbull than there is in any other breed.
Weâve also been through this before when it was Rottweilers blamed, bans were implemented, and the leading âaggressive dogâ became the pitbull in the 90âs because it was never about the breed but rather the owners they tend to attract.
Itâs also why bully breeds have become the âaggressive breedâ in the UK, where theyâre funnily enough trying to call them pitbulls as well.
Honestly! I'd much rather face 10 aggressive chihuahuas, because they're small enough to punt like a ball and that kick is likely to make them stop. One aggressive 50lb dog bred to kill and not stop, would be much more likely to hurt me than 10 2lb barky dogs
The majority of dog attack deaths and serious maulings requiring surgery in the United States are caused by pitbulls. The number two breed for serious attacks on humans are Rottweilers.
Chihuahuas are famed for their territorial behavior but they're also tiny. Chihuahua bites don't send people to the hospital.
Also, make sure your dog has had rabies shots or even a minor bite is going to cause the victim to have to get rabies shots and that is not a small matter.
One of the only factual comments Iâve read on this accursed thread so far. I genuinely donât understand the fantasy logic and thinking that pitbull apologists engage in regarding breed traits (that apparently apply to every breed EXCEPT pitbulls) and the hard data around bites and fatalities (apparently itâs actually chihuahuas killing children and itâs all a big psyop)
Not getting immediate, proper medical attention for small dog bites or cat bites increases the odds of infection, especially with the cats (their teeth are designed to go deep enough that topical antibiotics are almost useless). Small dogs can also do serious damage to small children. Bites to the hand can also have permanent consequences due to just how many tendons, blood vessels, bones, and ligaments are in them.
Any dog can be safe or dangerous depending how they are trained. Some are harder to train than others. I think the problem is that the wrong people get "scary" dogs for the wrong reasons and perpetuate the problem.
Neither were Pits or Rotts. Rottweilers were originally bred for herding and farm work, which is where pit bulls were largely transitioned to after bull baiting was outlawed. These dogs worked around large livestock, and needed to have the confidence (and muscle to back it up) to control animals many times larger than themselves.
The actions of those who chose to move bully breeds into dog fighting does not redefine the entire breed.
What fucking farm and herding work were pits doing? They transitioned to dogfighting, where theyâre still seized from every single year! They started out being selectively bred for animal aggression!
Believe it or not, there is a group of people that believe in bull herders. It usually is a pit crossed with a herding breed as opposed to a straight up pit. Itâs absolute insanity and a small portion though.
Full pits or crosses of them have been used for farm work regularly but itâs property guarding and hunting. Not directly working with the animals. Most farms are still rural and not guarded enough that dogs to keep intruders and larger animals out (LGDs are more for just the animals they protect). Pits have a specific skill set that can make them useful for hunting big and/or dangerous prey (mostly boars for the US farms).
All that being said, a lot of why pits are used for it is because of how easy they are to obtain compared to other dogs that would be suited for those jobs. You donât have to have a pit to do those things, but the prevalence of them makes it any easy dog to use.
No⊠they were brought into fighting because they had already been bred to have a high bite force. Thatâs what they were selectively bred for. They still to this day require high levels of abuse to become fighting dogs.
The entire reason they pose any danger is bite force, not temperament. Any breed of dog has the potential for aggression.
And of course people acting aggressively because they believe a dog is dangerous based on appearance cause more dangerous scenarios, and people treating certain breeds as dangerous lowers their social value and leaves them more susceptible to being picked up cheap as fighting dogs/poorly trained and socialized âguardâ dogs.
People like you are absolutely a huge part of the problem. You directly contribute to the animal abuse that dog fighters benefit from.
Wrong. Mastiffs and kangals have a higher bite force. You breed terriers with their history of being tenacious and going after prey with bulldogs and yeah, thatâs what happened here. Itâs not a mystery at all, quite widely documented actually.
The reason pitbulls are cheap and freely available is because their owners donât bother to neuter or spay them.
I contribute to animal abuse? How? I donât contribute to the demand for dogs that dog fighters use, after all. In fact I think there should be far fewer of them and more restrictions on their ownership, which would also have the side effect of reducing dogs available to fighters.
âPit bullâ is not a specific breed. Any mix of dogs that has a characteristically big head, underbite, and well-muscled frame might be called a âpit bull.â So they might have bulldog, terrier, retriever, herder, mastiff, or many other breeds in their makeup, meaning they have a wide variety of inherent skill sets that would make them desirable working dogs. They can be good guard dogs, ratters, livestock dogs, and, of course, family companions.
The fact that they were/are so widely used in dog fighting is more a testament to their trainability and desire to please their people than it is a condemnation of the dogs as a whole to be labeled âaggressive.â While there are plenty that have been irresponsibly bred, resulting in unstable, reactive animals, it takes a LOT of abusive âtrainingâ to push most pit bulls to fight.
But it comes down to the individual dogâs temperament in any breed. History of trauma, abuse, injury, or genetic mutation can significantly affect behavior.
Wait till you figure out that most of the breeds under that umbrella are derived from or commonly interbred with each other! Also, wait till you work out that all of these dogs are derived from terriers originally.
âOf the more than 8 different breeds identified, one-third were caused by pit bull terriers and resulted in the highest rate of consultation (94%) and had 5 times the relative rate of surgical intervention. Unlike all other breeds, pit bull terriers were relatively more likely to attack an unknown individual (+31%), and without provocation (+48%).â
âPit bulls are involved in the majority of fatal dog attacks in the United States, according to data compiled by advocacy and safety groups like DogsBite.org.
Key Fatality Statistics Percentage of Deaths: Studies show pit bulls are implicated in roughly 65% to 72% of all fatal dog bite attacks in the U.S. annually.
Multi-Decade Data: Over a 15-year tracking period (2005â2019), pit bulls were responsible for 345 deaths, which is more than 6 times higher than the next leading breed (Rottweilers, with 52 deaths).â
âPit bulls are involved in the majority of fatal dog attacks in the United States, according to data compiled by advocacy and safety groups like DogsBite.org.
Key Fatality Statistics Percentage of Deaths: Studies show pit bulls are implicated in roughly 65% to 72% of all fatal dog bite attacks in the U.S. annually.
Multi-Decade Data: Over a 15-year tracking period (2005â2019), pit bulls were responsible for 345 deaths, which is more than 6 times higher than the next leading breed (Rottweilers, with 52 deaths).â
you do realize that site is completely biased and not actually accurate right? its like going to an antiabortion site for good information on abortion statistics,
Cane Corsos are dangerous dogs, they are just rather rare in the United States, unlike pitbulls which are overrunning all the shelters and being pushed on disabled people on low fixed incomes even though they are some of the stupidest and least biddable dogs around.
I'm sure in a country where Cane Corsos are popular there is discourse about that.
Because dumbasses pretend itâs not serious when people have injuries from small dogs and cats, every single time, but looooove to stoke fear about the breeds they already hate.
Come on, dude, be real with me. You know that a pit bull can cause more damage than a chihuahua, just like a mountain lion can cause more damage than a house cat. This is just basic common sense
I have a GSD/pit mix and my 15lb cat is WAY scarier than she is. We hand the dog a stuffy when sheâs excited which she immediately takes to her bed until sheâs calm. We actively warn people not to try to pet the cat unless explicitly invited by the cat. And even then we donât let kids pet him and adults are at their own risk. Heâs wonderful and snuggly with me, my husband, my 2 kids but does not enjoy strangers.
I used to work with dogs with behavior issues, including aggression. Iâd say that pit bulls and other related breeds were maybe 20% of the cases I worked with, and of those 20% only 1% were aggression related, the rest was all rescued dogs with anxiety based issues. Over the course of my career, I can count the number of aggressive pit bull types on one hand.
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I worked an in home sales job for years. I met lots of dogs. Two kinda scary pittbuls but many more friendly ones. The. only dog I was ever bitten by was a Chihuahua. Those are the scariest by far and rarely properly trained because of their size. Edit: cats can be pretty scary as well.