What would the risk to dog size ratio be for each breed? If ordered that way, the Chow Chow would probably head the list. Dogs like Malamutes would rank lower, with the pits close to them.
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57 dog attack deaths & 645 disfigurements in 2017, led by pit bulls
January 8, 2018 by Merritt Clifton
Setters, Newfies, Dalmatians & greyhounds continue 35-year record as the safest big dogs
Preliminary “final” 2017 dog attack data from the U.S. and Canada suggests some good news, in that “only” 989 dogs participated in killing or disfiguring humans, down from the 2016 record 1,075.
But the bad news is that those 989 dogs killed 57 people, 11 more than the previous record of 46 who were killed in 2015.
Pit bulls killed 40 people in 2017, 39 in the U.S. and one in Canada, a total of 12 more people than were killed by pit bulls in 2016 and five more than the previous record of 34 killed in 2015.
Pit bulls accounted for “only” 88% of disfigurements
The 989 dogs who killed or disfigured people in 2017 accounted for 645 total disfigurements, 14 more than the previous record of 631 who were disfigured in 2016.
Of the disfigurements, 570––four fewer than in 2016––were disfigured by pit bulls, meaning that pit bulls accounted for “only” 88% of the dog attack disfigurements reported in 2017, down from 91% in 2016. But the 2017 disfigurement toll may well rise in the coming weeks.
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The above article is excerpted, and a list of bites, maulings, and fatalities has been supplied at the link, organized by breed.