Posted on 06/18/2015 8:00:40 PM PDT by Altariel
42 U.S. dog bite-related fatalities occurred in 2014. Despite being regulated in Military Housing areas and over 700 U.S. cities, pit bulls contributed to 64% (27) of these deaths. Pit bulls make up about 6% of the total U.S. dog population.
Together, pit bulls (27) and rottweilers (4), the second most lethal dog breed, accounted for 74% of the total recorded deaths in 2014. This same combination also accounted for 74% of all fatal attacks during the 10-year period of 2005 to 2014.
http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-study-dog-attacks-and-maimings-merritt-clifton.php
I do not have time right now to address this incredible and sudden non sequitur.
Perhaps later.
You have definitely experienced them.
:)
Statistics about Doberman attacks have nothing to do with Doberman’s.
Ohhhhh..kay
Almost all “Doberman attacks” are done in defense of their owners.
Can’t see one bit of down side to that.
And Dogsbite.org is run by a liberal, ambulance chasing lawyer with “stats” that are questionable, at best.
Have a nice day.
I got things to do and people to be.
“Almost all “Doberman attacks” are done in defense of their owners.”
Proof please.
Meh. Statistics... You can make them say anything you want to - It's about breed popularity, and what people are using for guard dogs.
My dogs have always tended to be Malamute/Wolf crossed, or Malamute/Wolf/G.Shepherd... 125 lb or so. Such a dog is in a whole nuther category from a mere Pitbull or Rot... Normal dogs simply would not survive a melee between sled dogs, or even the environment they live in. A Malamute is readily able to tear a man to pieces, and a pack pf them is a terrifying thing if they are under threat.
But the kind of people that would have such a dog are few by comparison, and generally well able to handle them... So statistically, Malamute/Wolf crossed dogs aren't even on the radar.
Dear salamander,
thank you!
(Walking all 3 of them on a nice SoCal day, cleared many a sidewalk! hahahahaha)
MADE ME LAUGH!
A dog is just a dog; some bigger, some smaller.
Some easier to train, some a little tougher.
All dogs are naturally (bred into them for the last 40 thousand years) loving and lovable human companions.
That said; any dog will protect it’s self from mistreatment or harm, just like any human would.
Some are bred to be great hunters, some are bred to be great herder’s, some are bred to be great guards, and some are bred just to be lap dogs.
Any dog is only going to be as good or evil as it’s owner.
GOT THAT RIGHT!
What you call a PIT BULL is just a mongrel BULL DOG; their instinct is to grab hold and hold on until the target stops moving.
I have what you call a PIT BULL as one of my pack, Billy is a sweetheart who’s greatest ambition in life is to convince me he is a lap dog.
Me, or anybody else who he thinks he can get away with it.
I didn’t call anything a pit bull.
What, precisely, do you hope to accomplish by regurgitating that roundly discredited, candy assed, Fascist, liberal crapaganda into my lap?
Do you imagine that you will somehow dissuade me from owning Dobes?
Never. Happen.
Do you think to shake a a little bogeyman gris gris at me and make me faint of heart, like others who swallow that idiocy?
Never. Happen.
Perhaps you simply seek to make me as afraid of “big scary dogs” as you are.
Never. Ever. Happen.
“Proof please”
I got yer proof, swingin’.
Sadly, they have *all three* breeds/crosses on multiple “top 10 dangerous dog” lists.
How did Americans become such p*ssies?
Best dogs, *ever*.
[What’s that old saying about being right over the target if you’re drawing a lot of flak?]
;D
“Pibble”
;D
In all of “statistically recorded” time, *9* Dobermanns have killed people.
[and they still hold the #15 spot for AKC registrations/popularity]
But an article on “Top 10 most dangerous breeds” clarifies this:
http://puppytoob.com/dog-breeds/the-10-most-dangerous-dog-breeds-based-on-biting-statistics/5/
I am totally down with them ripping into anyone who hurts their person.
I wish they had included the brave Dobes who killed the enemy in WWII.
Much bigger head count, there.
“I didn’t call anything a pit bull.”
81 posted on 6/19/2015, 1:08:54 PM by AppyPappy
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You might want to schedule a check up, “Pappy”.
Those are facts. They are not my words
Don’t blame me because I told you the truth.
You pasted a link from a BS, liberal lawyer’s website.
I pity you if that is what passes for “truth” in your world.
So I gave you that “proof” you wanted for Dobes.
No comment for that or did it screw up your propaganda fest and you’d rather just ignore it?
You know how “we” always say that liberals want us all disarmed so that they can eventually rule us?
I now strongly believe that *everyone* who has a grudge against ‘protective dog breeds’ is of the same malevolent intent.
Sneaking, evil creeps who would eagerly do us harm, if not for the good dogs who stand between us and them.
Maybe the thought of a Dobe or a “Pitbull” protecting some little kid really infuriates you.
I know my ‘creepy uncle’ -hated- my Dobes.
And we are done.
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