Record 32,550 pit bulls killed or badly injured other animals in the U.S. in 2016
January 11, 2017 by Merritt Clifton
Millie Lapidus. (Beth Clifton collage)
New estimating method reduces “wobble” factors & confirms accuracy of the old method
How many animals are killed or badly injured by dogs each year?
How many of those animals are killed or badly injured by pit bulls?
(Beth Clifton photo)
Quick & easy
If you just want quick-and-easy projections, four years’ worth of data, 2013 through 2016, indicates that on average:
About 31,500 dogs per year kill or severely injure other animals, including about 27,500 pit bulls (87%).
About 10,000 dogs per year are killed by other dogs, 85% of them killed by pit bulls.
About 11,500 dogs per year are disabled or disfigured by other dogs, 10,500 of them disabled or disfigured by pit bulls (92%).
About 2,500 cats per year are killed by dogs, about 2,000 of them (80%) killed by pit bulls.
About 7,500 hoofed animals, poultry, and wildlife per year are killed by dogs, about 6,400 of them (85%) by pit bulls.
The 2016 numbers appear to have been significantly higher.
(See table below.)
If you want to know where the numbers come from, why we just spent four days doing all the math necessary to derive them and prove them through cross-checks, and why we ended up changing the estimation method we used in 2013-2015, please read on below the table.
That's absurdly low. I might believe 7.5 million.