[HairOfTheDog]

I'm about Pit Bulled-out for the week, but here's the ping.

ambrose, do us a favor.... find us a nice heartwarming animal story for a change eh?

Ping!

[Gingersnap]

"I'm about Pit Bulled-out for the week,..."

Boy! Me too.

Not to energize the pro- or anti- pitbull debate (I grew up with them so...) but I had an opportunity to get a glimpse of dog bite stats a fews ago.

I work in public health (normally on the enviro side - this was a TDY thing). I had to go over all the reported dog bite stats for my state for like three years. Imagine my horror when my own favorite breed, the Shetland Sheepdog, turned up in something like position number 11!

Now, Shelties can't inflict life threatening damage (I don't think) but they did turn up as biters. Labs were on the top 20 list too.

Essentially, any popular dog breed is going to be responsible for a large number of bites. Pits can just do one heck of a lot more damage.

Of course, statistics are small comfort if it's YOUR arm torn off or YOUR kid in the hospital.

[potlatch]

Another Pit bull turns on owner!! They never want to admit it that these dogs have a built in attack mode!!