Yorkys and Ferrets both should make the news as often because they are both notorious for biting. I’ve been bit in the face by a Rottie in the last 6 months and yet my favorite client is also a Rottie. Breed generalizations are as stupid as race generalizations. Both show an extreme ignorance. I still can’t bend my thumb real well from a cat bite 30 years ago. When do we outlaw them? Talk to most groomers and they’ll tell you cats damage more of us than dogs.
I know. It's so ignorant to generalize that Australian Shepherds always want to herd everything from hens to kids, and that spaniels and retreivers love water and like to fetch stuff -- just extreme ignorance very much like racism, and so fitting because really, dogs are people, too, you know?
Hey, in case you haven't noticed -- and judging by your lack of common sense you haven't -- this woman and her daugher were simply enjoying their property, just like the old lady gardening in her own yard who was killed by a pit bull a few years ago, or like the guy who lives in a town near me who stepped outside for a smoke and was killed by his son's pit bull, or the mail carrier in So Cal whose leg was permanently maimed by a pit bull ambushed her from between two parked cars, or the guy who was changing the tire on his car was attacked by the neighbor's pit bull, a dog he knew well and had often petted over the years -- these people were minding their own business and they didn't just get bit, they got killed or maimed.
You didn't specifiy, but if you got bit because you were grooming the animals -- by a cat or a Yorky or a ferret because you're handling the critter and invading its personal territory -- AND YOU HAVE THE STUPIDITY TO COMPARE IT TO A PIT BULL MAULING OF A WOMAN AND A 2-YEAR-OLD MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS IN THEIR FRONT YARD? -- well, you should go sit in the corner with a pointy hat on your head for a few days, dear. You need to think a little more about reality and a little less about your ego as a dog "authority" because you groom pets.
Actually, they’re not stupid. They’re backed up by either absolute #s (meaningless, actually) OR general % of the dog type in question.
Although I’m sure many dogs are mistakenly called “pit bulls” (which is prime reason I’m against banning any dogs), there is still little denying that tons of attacks (as opposed to BITES, which is the real difference also) are at the mouths of pit-bull terrier types (not breed - this is a whole type of dog, like sighthounds aka greyhounds). The real problem with PBTs is they tend to latch on and not “let it go”, as most terriers are wont to do. Thus, they do more damage than most others, who bite and are done with it, rather than hanging on as if their own lives depended on it.
Also, grooming or vetting is a different story from general living situations. Few cats “attack” for no reason (although many have questionable temperaments and will lash out) - in your case, you’re doing something to it that is unnatural and they naturally fight back. Just walking through a neighborhood, though - how many cats have attacked you, or even just swiped you once?