It amazes me that there is any debate about the dangers of the Pit Bull breed. Stats do not lie, I/we tell that to the knuckle headed libs all the time, yet, I still see conservatives make the ludicrous statement that its not the breed, its the owners. Well, if that’s the case, then, by that logic, only bad people ever own pits because they are responsible for the majority of attacks. Not say Labradors or Blue Heelers, because they never top the dog attack/kill charts, so only good people must own those breeds?
Source:http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_dog_attacks_in_the_United_States
Here is the 2010 US dog attack fatality list (Notice that MOST are pit attacks):
January 13 Pit bull-type Makayla Woodard 5 years Killed by neighbor’s two pit bulls
January 9 Pit bull-type Omar Martinez 3 years Killed by his family’s dog
January 17 Pit bull-type Johnny Wilson 56 years Killed by his daughter’s four dogs
February 12 Pit bull-type Anastasia Bingham 6 years Killed while walking to a friend’s home
February 18 Siberian Husky Robert D. Hocker 11 days Killed by his family’s dog
February 20 Pit bull-type Christine Stabb 38 years Killed by her mother’s dog
February 20 American Bulldog Violet Serenity Haaker 3 years Killed by one of her mother’s dogs
February 22 Pit bull-type “Jane Doe” 5 days Killed by her family’s dog
March 1 Rottweiler Ashlynn Anderson 4 years Killed by her stepfather’s dog
March 4 Pit bull-type Ethel Horton 65 years Killed while defending her husband against an attack by her nephew’s dog
March 8 Rottweiler Justin Lopez 8 months Killed by his family’s two new dogs
April 14 Pit bull-mix Thomas Carter, Jr. 7 days Killed by his family’s dog
May 20 Mixed-breed dog Krystal Brink 3 years Killed when she wandered into her neighbor’s sled dog yard
May 28 Pit bull-type Nathan Aguirre 2 years Killed by his family’s dog
June 3 Pit bull-type Savannah Gragg 9 years Killed in her home while opening the door to let the dog outside
June 15 Bullmastiff-mix Pit bull-Boxer mix Rottweiler-mix Michael Winters 30 years Killed by his nine dogs (5 Bullmastiff, 3 Pit bull-Boxer-mix, 1 Rottweiler-mix)
July 12 Labrador Retriever-mixGerman Shepherd Dog-Husky-mix Kyle Holland 5 years Killed by the dogs of his mother’s live-in boyfriend
July 20 Pit bull-type William Parker 71 years Suffered a fatal heart attack when attacked by two of his neighbor’s dogs
July 22 Pit bull-type Jacob Bisbee 2 years Killed by three of his step-grandfather’s dogs. The dogs had decapitated the family’s pet Akita and killed the family’s pet Chihuahua and parrot within the past year.
July 31 German Shepherd Dog-mix Aaron Carlson 2 years Killed by his family’s dog
August 19 Pit bull-type Tracey Payne 46 years Killed by a pack of pit bull-type dogs that had been abandoned by their owner.
August 22 Pit bull-type Jerry Yates 69 years Killed by 2 pit bulls a tenant was keeping on his land.
August 25 Pit bull-type Mixed-breed dog Jason Walter 7 years Killed by a neighbor’s three pit bull-type dogs and a mixed breed dog while staying at the neighbor’s residence.
August 26 Boxer Taylor Becker 4 years Killed by her family’s dog.
September 4 Pit bull-type Mattie Daugherty 85 years Killed by her daughter’s 9-year-old dog.
October 13 Pit bull-type Rev. John Reynolds sr. 84 years Killed by his son’s pack of 17 dogs.
October 14 Pit bull-type Edward Mitchell 67 years Died of complications of his injuries inflicted by his family’s dog.
October 24 Pit bull-type Justin Valentin 3 days Killed by his family’s dog[18
November 2 Pit bull-Weimaraner-mix Christina Casey 53 years Killed in her own yard by her neighbor’s two dogs
November 10 Pit bull-type Kaden Muckleroy 2 years Killed by his grandfather’s dog[187][188] November 15 Mixed-breed dog Cason Bryant 5 years Killed in his own yard by five of his neighbor’s dogs November 15 German Shepherd Dog Shirley Lou Bird 79 years Killed by her own dog
Explain that pit bull deniers...
There are very few actual pit bulls on your list.
Explain THAT Sparky.
One problem is pits are probably the most misidentified breed out there. I have seen many articles about pit bull attacks with photos of dogs that looked nothing like a real pit. Many times if a large dog with an ugly head bites anyone it is immediately called a pit. Not too long ago there was an article about 2 pits attacking a child and the animal control folks said the dogs were not pits so the paper did a retraction. Most of the time there is no correction if the dog isn’t really a pit.
I notice on your list there are several that are listed as pit bull type- what is with that word “type” are they or aren’t they?
I have been around pits all my life and have never seen a mean one. I know there are mean ones, I am not saying that- just I have not seen one in person. We only owned one dog that was mean and she was a red heeler.
Some people shouldn’t own any type of dog- they either won’t make them mind or make them mean on purpose through abuse/neglect/stupidity. I think there are a lot of issues in cities because of irresponsible owners. Dogs of any kind should not be loose- ever where others live.
The other issue is in my opinion no dog large enough to cause serious injury should ever be trusted around small children or the elderly and no dog should be trusted around babies. Any dog that is dangerous needs to be put down, period end of story.
Wikipedia? LOL