“In the 13-year data set, pit bulls inflicted 72% of attacks that killed a person 10-years and older vs. all other dog breeds combined, 28%.
U.S. Dog Bite Fatalities: Breeds of Dogs Involved, Age Groups and Other Factors Over a 13-Year Period (2005 to 2017) by DogsBite.org, May 2018”
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“From 2005 to 2017, family dogs inflicted 54% of all fatal attacks. 64% were perpetrated by pit bulls. Of the 284 fatal pit bull attacks, 52% involved killing a family or household member.
U.S. Dog Bite Fatalities: Breeds of Dogs Involved, Age Groups and Other Factors Over a 13-Year Period (2005 to 2017) by DogsBite.org, May 2018”
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“In the 13-year data set, 54 cases involved a dog killing its primary owner. Pit bulls inflicted 63% of these deaths, over 8 times more than any other breed.
U.S. Dog Bite Fatalities: Breeds of Dogs Involved, Age Groups and Other Factors Over a 13-Year Period (2005 to 2017) by DogsBite.org, May 2018”
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“Our data were consistent with others, in that an operative intervention was more than 3 times as likely to be associated with a pit bull injury than with any other breed.
Characteristics of 1616 Consecutive Dog Bite Injuries at a Single Institution, by by Golinko et al., Clinical Pediatrics, July 2016”
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“Although a number of dog breeds were identified, the largest group were pit bull terriers, whose resultant injuries were more severe and resulted from unprovoked, unknown dogs.
Dog bites of the head and neck: an evaluation of a common pediatric trauma and associated treatment, by O’Brien et al., BS, American Journal of Otolaryngology, January–February, 2015”
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“Attacks by pit bulls are associated with higher morbidity rates, higher hospital charges, and a higher risk of death than are attacks by other breeds of dogs.
Mortality, Mauling, and Maiming by Vicious Dogs, by Bini et al., Annals of Surgery, April 2011”
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Pit Bulls - The Dogs of Peace
Pit bulls are worst on strangers, huh.
For those interested, Dogsbite.org has plenty of documentation and extensive victim reports detailing unprovoked attacks by pits, attempts to conceal the breed, apologists lame excuses, legal efforts to hold owners responsible, the staggering financial costs that fall on the victim, etc. etc. A competing website offers pro-pit propaganda and has intentionally chosen a name VERY similar so if you want to check accurate stats, make sure you use the precise spelling above.
Lots of statistics - I grabbed a few in my prior post from this page. Pit bulls do not have a “bad rap”, they earned their reputation for unprovoked, devastating attacks on family, friends and strangers, one bloody scrap of ripped scalp and sinew at a time.
https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-quick-statistics.php
I suspect that in the majority of these cases the owners weren't any better at raising their kids than their dogs and had kids who turned feral as well... It would be interesting to see if there's a correlation between owner drug use and dog attacks.