This breed should be eradicated. People are more important than animals and not a day goes by without one of these animals harming someone. It is a public safety issue.
“This breed should be eradicated. People are more important than animals and not a day goes by without one of these animals harming someone. It is a public safety issue.”<<<<<<
You are right, people are more important than animals, but eradicating the breed will not stop attacks from happening. Look at all the places that have breed bans. Not a single one has had a reduction in attacks, not even serious ones. The irresponsible owners just get other dogs to mess up.
As for the stories we read on a daily basis regarding pit bulls and public safety, consider this: Public Health records show that there are on average 13 thousand dog attacks every single day in this country, 2 thousand of which require hospitalization. Out of those, we only see attacks by pit bulls on the news (one or two a day sound about right?) so why is there such a huge discrepancy between these records and the media reports? Why are the other attacks not reported? It can’t possibly be because pit bull attacks are always worse, because even on this very site I can pull up several news stories regarding pit bulls where no one was even bitten!
I would love to see dog attacks disappear, but banning specific breeds is not the answer, and it has not worked anywhere it has been implemented. Responsible ownership laws, or even a better job of enforcing current laws, will be a much better way of reducing dog attacks (and it’s been proven way more successful than bred bans).
In this case, the dogs were in a pack running loose, which is an owner issue. If they were valued family pets, they would have been inside with their family, but something tells me their yard was their home, and this is a situation that is all too common in these attack stories.