You didn’t bother to read the article at all did you? And I have looked up the history of the animal and I unlike you apparently have contact with a wide variety of pits almost daily. Your logic is poor. As I wrote to another with Pit phobia using your logic we should eliminate police because weekly if not daily we see stories of “some” police killing or beating people out of hand without provocation, or is only logic that we should apply to animals?
Why are you responding emotionally to a mere statement of observed evidence?
Of course I read the article, and hundreds of others just like it. I'm also an eyewitness to such incidents, and have come very close to being attacked by these animals myself.
Hospital Statistics about Top 10 Dog Breeds that Bite
A close look at statistics reveals a worrying trend about the top 10 dogs that bite since in the US alone dog bites account for more than 600 hospital cases and a staggering figure of 16,000 cases that are reported as emergencies. Almost 50% of all these cases that are reported regarding top 10 dog breeds that bite account for the second most reason children in the US require emergency medical attention. Some of the fatalities that have been identified pointed out that out of the top 10 dog breeds that bite the pit bulls took the lead accounting to more than 65 % of all fatalities that were caused by the top 10 dogs that bite.
http://peteducationinfo.hubpages.com/hub/Top-10-Dog-Breeds-that-Bite
Dog Attack Deaths and Maimings, U.S. & Canada, September 1982 to December 31, 2012
By compiling U.S. and Canadian press accounts between 1982 and 2012,1 Merritt Clifton, editor of Animal People, shows the breeds most responsible for serious injury and death.
Study highlights
The combination of large molosser breeds, including pit bulls, rottweilers, presa canarios, cane corsos, mastiffs, dogo argentinos, fila brasieros, and their mixes:
79% of attacks that induce bodily harm
72% of attacks to children
85% of attack to adults
69% of attacks that result in fatalities
77% that result in maiming
Discussion notes:
Even if the pit bull category was "split four ways," attacks by pit bulls and their closest relatives would still outnumber attacks by any other breed.Pit bulls are noteworthy for attacking adults almost as frequently as children. This is a very rare pattern, only seen elsewhere in the bullmastiff/presa canario line.
If a pit bull or rottweiler has a bad moment, instead of being bitten, often someone is maimed or killed; that has now created off-the-chart actuarial risk.
| Breed | Bodily harm | Child Victims | Adult Victims | Deaths | Maimings | % of dog population |
| Pit bull | 2235 | 911 | 806 | 233 | 1268 | 4.4% |
| Rottweiler | 495 | 278 | 131 | 81 | 277 | 2.2% |
| Husky | 71 | 44 | 5 | 24 | 20 | .05% |
| Wolf hybrid | 84 | 69 | 5 | 19 | 48 | |
| Bullmastiff (Presa canario) | 87 | 30 | 33 | 14 | 46 | .04% |
| German shepherd | 96 | 60 | 28 | 14 | 59 | 2.3% |
| Pit bull-mix | 148 | 63 | 37 | 12 | 83 | |
| Akita | 65 | 42 | 19 | 8 | 47 | .06% |
| German shepherd-mix | 41 | 26 | 12 | 7 | 26 | |
| Chow | 55 | 36 | 16 | 7 | 37 | .01% |
| Doberman | 15 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 1.3% |
Dog Attack Deaths and Maimings, U.S. & Canada, September 1982 to December 31, 2012