“Incidents are commonplace.”<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<,
Even more so than you know. Public health records show that the one or two pit bull attacks reported on the news are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to dog attacks. There are on average two thousand hospitalizations every day from dogs. My question is, where are all of the rest of the stories? Surely the ones by pit bulls are horrible, but are they any worse than the others? According to public health, there are lots of really bad attacks that aren’t making it to the news. Why not?
Also, why is it that the average number of fatalities has not risen since pit bulls became popular? If they were as bad as many believe, wouldn’t they have a big impact on the numbers? Accounting for increases in both human and canine populations, the number of human fatalities has not risen to account for such a claim. There are an estimated 10 million pit bull type dogs in the country, and many of these are probably owned by less than stellar people, yet there aren’t more pit bulls doing bad things than there were german shepherds back when they were popular. Now that they aren’t, everyone went back to thinking they’re great family dogs. The same will be true for the pit bull when thugs and the media find another breed to ooh and aaaw about.
Yes. Worse and far more frequent relative to the number of dogs in that debased breed.