9 out 10 people could not tell the difference between the breeds. This is a distinction without a difference.
RIP.
Even if pitbulls are no more likely to attack than say a beagle, the difference is an average person can fight of a beagle, but almost no one can fight a pit bull or rottweiler.
Family members noted that the lady had medical issues, was not dressed for being outdoors in the cold, and had (in their opinion) probably had a stroke before falling unconscious outside.
Usually, another family member brought the dog in from the cold every night and (they believed that) the dog had tried to drag her to the back porch & safety.
The "dog bites" were reported as being on her shoulder and an arm, consistent with an effort to drag her in the only manner in which a dog can move an unresponsive person or another dog.
Any Rott is apt to be large enough to drag a relatively small person a good distance.
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I have a Nephew who owns several Rottweilers. He is pretty arrogant about how to handle dogs but recently learned a valuable lesson.
One of them put him in the hospital.
Thanks for posting this. Unfortunately, if it isn’t a pit bull story, it won’t get a lot of attention, even here. How sad that people can’t see that their overwhelming interest in pit bull stories here and disinterest in any other dog attack story explains what the media already knows: Pit bulls sell more. If this had been a scientific experiment to prove that, I would say it was successful, since it can obviously be repeated elsewhere with the same results.