Posted on 02/18/2014 12:54:08 PM PST by Arthurio
A pit bull attack left a 2-year-old girl in critical condition Monday morning and after being admit to a local area hospital, the girl died as a result of her injuries.
According to KWTX, the 2-year-old girl was from Temple Texas and has been identified as Je’vaeh Mayes. Corporal Christopher Wilcox told reporters that officers were dispatched at around 11:30 am Monday morning to a home in the 800 block of East Avenue E. with reports of a dog bite.
KBTX stated that the dog which allegedly bit the girl was a pit bull that the family had been watching for a friend. The dog was in the backyard at the time of the alleged attack. 2-year-old Mayes had wandered into the backyard and was reportedly bit by the pit bull at that time. The girl’s parents say they didn’t know that their daughter had wandered out into the backyard.
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>>>If the news was fair and balanced, they would report such attacks by other dog breeds as well. Pit bulls do attack humans less frequently than most other dog breeds.<<<
Roughly two thirds of all dog attack fatalities involve Pit Bulls, which make up only about 5% of the dog population.
The vast majority of the hundreds of other dog breeds either never kill humans or kill them only, very, very rarely (like 1 in 20 years or more).
Most stories about dogs killing humans are about Pit Bulls, because most of such killings are BY Pit Bulls.
From the site www.dogsbite.org
Pitbulls: 263 deaths
Rottweiler: 81 deaths (next closest)
My vet is quite clear, pit bulls need to become extinct and that can be done by making breeding and selling illegal. He believes they are this dangerous.
I believe pit bulls are most accurately characterized as a group of breeds, not as a breed as such. And it appears dogs outside this group are very often classified as pit bulls when they’re involved in a severe incident.
IOW, I suspect the numbers are overstated for “pit bulls.”
Not particularly a defender of pit bulls, just trying to keep the record straight.
“Funny how liberals never talk about banning pit bulls....I find that intriguing.”
I guess you never heard about “breed-specific” regulations? It’s the first step...
Pit Bulls like to argue bite stats, not fatalities and argue that a nip on the ankle from a chihuahua is just as bad as a pit permanently disfiguring a child’s face.
Seriously? Do you not watch/listen to the news.
Errr, pit bull apologists
Fair enough. Pit Bulls are a subset of the Bulldog family and bred for their tenacity. I too would like to see the data and how the dog was classified and by whom.
Pit bulls are popular among Holder’s People and urban hipsters
dang I hate those things!
Its the owner.
Never leave children unsupervised around dogs, cats or ferrets.
They may be domesticated but pets can still bite if they feel they’ve have had enough or their space is threatened.
Pet owners have to exercise responsibility. The dog needs to be killed so it can never harm another human being again but the lesson here is people have to make sure pets and children together are under adult supervision at all times. Period.
Nah, they'll just blame whitey.
rjsimmon and I have both asked you for the stats or source of that information. You've ignored us both.
Does this mean there isn't any data to back this up, and you pulled this statement out of your imagination?
I don't care if you're counting breeds according to the AKC, the UKC, the CKC, the NZKC, the ANKC, or the Fédération Cynologique Internationale. Where is your data than >50% of breeds recognized by one of those groups attack humans more than pit bulls do?
Pit bulls can be sweet and loving family dogs.
But not every one wants them as a companion dog and that’s when there’s trouble afoot.
yep — especially drug dealer types. Given the neighborhood this kid was in 10-1 that owner was a drug seller. They selectively pick the meanest dogs they can find, breed those mean dogs to other mean dogs, and it’s not long before you have a problem. I wish just once those d*** dogs would eat their druggie owners.
Just one of the facets of this wonderful family pet.
Well, we can do the math. IF the percentages in that link to Dog Bites are correct, then it’s a good thing Chows, Huskies and Bull Mastiffs aren’t more populous. If there were as many of those breeds as Pit Bulls, and all other things being equal, then Deaths by Husky over the last 31 years would be 2,142, Deaths by Bull Mastiff would be 4,500, and Deaths by Chow would be a whopping 4,662.
For what it’s worth. I don’t have a dog in this fight.
Funny how liberals never talk about banning pit bulls....I find that intriguing.
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Plenty of talk about that here in Maryland, so we know its liberals doing the talking.
You may want to do some research on your statement above.
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