That means I know what the hell I am talking about. I have been grilled by the best of them. Numbers do not lie people who don’t want to deal with fact and reality often do. They always want to believe that it will never happen with their pit bull. If you had to prepare for a case or two and study all the bites on a set of corners photos of a dead child you might just have a little different feeling in the pit of your stomach too. But until you can face reality you can just keep your head buried in the sand or where ever you keep it and continue to ignore the well documented facts and statistics.
No, that means you will say what the lawyer wants you to say.
Numbers do not lie people who don’t want to deal with fact and reality often do.
Numbers may not lie but they surely can be inaccurate.
The lie arises when people present them as gospel truth without investigating their veracity.
For example you state "Pitts make up 7% of the pet dogs"
while our other "pitt" 'expert' states
"Pit bulls make up approximately 5% of the U.S. dog population."
I've seen other self professed 'experts' claim 1%
while others estimate, based on shelter populations, a much higher percentage, ex. 20+%.
Who is correct? Mostly likely no one because there is no accurate count.
Looking at the guesses of 5% vs 7% and using AVMA 2006 estimate of US dog population of 72 million.
7% ===> 5.04 million
5% ===> 3.6 million
difference ===> 1.44 million.....a rather substantial difference.
Which of you 2 experts is correct?
As a self professed expert your knowledge of "pitts", by your own admission,
comes not from owning them, nor training them, nor from substantial interaction with them
but rather is based on questionable data and sources
and on your simplistic theory of the function of these dogs.
(I have little trouble imaging you or someone like you using a very similar
argument in dealing with these 'killer dogs' from my neck of the woods)
They are a terrier and bulldog cross
and have characteristics shared with all other terriers and bulldogs.
Any type/breed of medium to large size,
which is not raised, controlled and trained in a responsible manner
will on extremely rare occasions injure or kill people.
For those of us not making money providing biased opinions in court,
our time is better spent educating the public about the principles of responsible dog ownership.
Principles that hold regardless of breed and if applied will always prevent dog attacks.
If you had to prepare for a case or two and study all the bites on a set of corners photos of a dead child you might just have a little different feeling in the pit of your stomach too
Ah yes the moral superiority ploy.
It's obvious you care more about the victims of dog attacks than I do, eh?