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"Wow!"

That's a universal response when I tell the story. Hey, I just found an interesting compilation of dog injuries with various caveats here: http://www.dogbitelaw.com/Dog%20Attacks%201982%20to%202006%20Clifton.pdf

"Of the breeds most often involved in incidents of sufficient severity to be listed, pit bull terriers are noteworthy for attacking adults almost as frequently as children. This is a very rare pattern: children are normally at greatest risk from dogbite because they play with dogs more often, have less experience in reading dog behavior, are more likely to engage in activity that alarms or stimulates a dog, and are less able to defend themselves when a dog becomes aggressive. Pit bulls seem to differ behaviorally from other dogs in having far less inhibition about attacking people who are larger than they are. They are also notorious for attacking seemingly without warning, a tendency exacerbated by the custom of docking pit bulls' tails so that warning signals are not easily recognized. Thus the adult victim of a pit bull attack may have had little or no opportunity to read the warning signals that would avert an attack from any other dog."

Clifton Merrill is an animal rights activist and general all-round kook.

Here is a sample of your "expert's" thought...

Around the world, societies that practice animal husbandry are desensitized societies. The abuse of animals inevitably spills over into the treatment of women and children. Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, and slavery persist in in many of the very regions that Heifer Project International serves, for example, as extensions of common agricultural practice to those of our own species who are least able to protect themselves.
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He is a discredited wacko and anything he says should be taken with a grain of salt.
You do no service to yourself nor your 'cause' by using him as reference.
There are many more accurate, unbiased and reputable sources out there.