Re: Officially hunting pit bulls...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Onemoretime</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: High Binder</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DaveD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics.php </div></div>
Pit bulls accounted for 59% followed by rottweilers with 14% (huge disparity is telling and 73% of all dog attack are from these two breeds).
Of the 88 fatal dog attacks recorded by DogsBite.org, pit bull type dogs were responsible for 59% (52). This is equivalent to a pit bull killing a U.S. citizen every 21 days during this 3-year period.
The data also shows that pit bulls commit the vast majority of off-property attacks that result in death. Only 18% (16) of the attacks occurred off owner property, yet pit bulls were responsible for 81% (13).
During 1997 and 1998, at least 27 people died of dog bite attacks (18 in 1997 and 9 in 1998). At least 25 breeds of dogs were involved in 238 human dog bite related fatalities during the past 20 years. Pit bulls and rottweilers were involved in over half of these fatalities and from 1997 to 1998 were involved in 67%
Biters are 6.2 times as likely to be male than female
Biters are 2.6 times as likely to be intact than neutered Biters are 2.8 times as likely to be chained as unchained
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DaveD and High Binder,
That website is an ANTI PITBULL website. It's obvious if you read the website they have an agenda. They lump all of these breeds into the "Pitbull" category. American Pitbull Terrier, American Bulldog, French Bull Dog, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, Bull Terrier, etc. And some highly uneducated reporters even report Boxers as Pitbulls. Those statistics are inflated to force a negative public opinion. </div></div>
I got the same thing you did out of it OMT
ANTI PB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_Bull