Posted on 03/26/2009 2:10:42 PM PDT by Chet 99
LULING, Texas – Caldwell County investigators say a 2-year-old boy was attacked and killed by a pit bull dog.
The child was found in his backyard Thursday afternoon with the dog nearby.
Deputies haven’t said whether or not if it was the family’s dog. The animal has been picked up and is now in the custody animal control officers.
News 4 WOAI has a crew there and will update as more details become available.
Killer dogs.
But my [insert name of friend or relative] has a pit bull that is sooooo sweet! It must be the kid’s fault! /s/
After pit bulls, they need to ban swimming in the ocean. All those shark attacks.
I’ve been told, repeatedly, that attacks like this are rare.
Putting the government issue aside ... why would anyone WANT to own a pit bull?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=pit%20bull
“When will the government step in and tell us which dogs we can and can’t own?”
And or Monkeys or Lions!
Never leave a child alone with a ANY dog.
Agreed.
Dogs generally do not see young children as “alpha”, yet children will often engage in what the dog perceives as alpha-like behavior of grabbing them, pulling their ear, shouting...
Yeah, one of my neighbors had pit bulls.
They’d get loose periodically until my new neighbor started cleaning his rifles on the front porch.
I suppose it depends upon your definition of rare. In 2007 there were 33 fatalities caused by dogs. They were caused by:
14 Pitbull
1 Bulldogs (not specified what sort—could well be pit type)
1 American Bulldog (another pitbull type breed)
1 Pit/Mastiff mix
2 German Shepherd
4 Rotweiller
4 Unspecified Dog
1 Doberman
2 Chow
1 Siberian Huskies
33 deaths is not a large number (altho I am not by any means saying it’s not tragic in any case). Interestingly, a number of these bites were by dogs who had bitten before, were chained up, were left alone with small children, etc.
And the dogs were smart enough to know what that meant?!
It would be interesting if you could take those numbers and put them up against the number of each breed that were in the country in 2007. I doubt that that info is readily available, but it would allow the true risk to be assessed for each breed of dog.
Also, as far as dog attacks go, I would imagine that there are a great number of attacks by smaller dogs that don’t actually result in deaths since the dog is not as capable of killing as the breeds that you listed.
“Also, as far as dog attacks go, I would imagine that there are a great number of attacks by smaller dogs that don’t actually result in deaths since the dog is not as capable of killing as the breeds that you listed.”
HUH? Death and dying by animal attack is the issue not trying to decide which breed is grumpier.
What is your source?
Not exactly, but the rest of them were.
That’s the problem with doing anything with this information. I can’t find number of dogs by breed, I’m sure because it’s not kept. AKC would have some info, but it would be very incomplete since many dogs (and I suspect many of the dogs involved in these attacks) are not registered.
I will say I suspect that if you could get the info it would tell you that there are simply MANY pitbull type dogs out there, and they are the majority among certain populations.
And I agree, many other breeds probably bite at least as often, but they don’t kill people.
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