A valid question. You have requested this information previously, and I thank you for reminding me.
I do not know. I have heard that one of the classic items said by surprised owners is “that’s not like him. He never did anything like that before.”
Which, if investigated, usually turns out not to be quite true. Usually, there are aggression behaviors ignored in the hope that “it would go away”. Items such as food aggression, toy aggression, “Playful nips”, small animal aggression, escalating to human aggression.
And sometimes no markers at all, but a normally sweet-tempered goofy dog who at one point “snaps” or “goes game” (dogfighter term)
and begins to maul or kill small animals, livestock, etc.
This appears to happen most often at or around sexual maturity - 1.5-2 years old - but has happened at age 7 or later as well.
I do not remember if you are the poster discussing that 5% or fewer of dogs (actually, owners) have adequate training and/or obedience, but if this number is accurate, as it is about the percentage of pit bulls in the dog population (5%+/-), then the percentage of untrained pit bulls would be
at 95% of 5% of the general population of dogs.
I will continue to check. Thank you for asking. Norski
Thanks Norski. Keep up the good attitude on these threads, you won’t regret it.
Yeah, I try to always say ‘supposedly’ only 5% of dog owners bother to train their animals, because it was something I looked up on line a while ago. So who knows. It does seem to conform to my real life observation, like I have been around no well trained small dogs in my life, but I have seen them on TV. I would assume less pit bulls get trained simply because of the monstrous uses many get put to by scum.
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. . .” The more living beings to whom a pit bull is exposed, or the more pit bulls are part of the scenario, the higher the odds that one or more living beings will be killed or injured.
Nearly 50,000 dogs, including nearly 47,000 pit bulls, killed or injured humans or other pets and/or farmed animals in the U.S. during 2017.
One pit bull in 80 kills an animal or human in any given year
Since there are only about 3.7 million pit bulls in the U.S. at any given time, the odds start at about one chance in 80 that any given pit bull will kill a human or animal in any given year––compared to about one chance in 24,666 that any given dog of any other breed will kill any pet or farmed animal.
That’s right: the odds are 308 times higher that a pit bull will kill a human, pet, or farmed animal in any given year than that a dog other than a pit bull will.
Multiply that one chance in 80 by the 10-year average lifespan of a dog, and about one pit bull in eight will become a killer––if the pit bull lives a normal lifespan. With a turnover rate of nearly 33% per year, and 50% for adult pit bulls, most do not live even half a normal lifespan. . . .” . .
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The above is an excerpt by an article titles: “Pit bull roulette” killed 38,000 other animals in 2017” by Merritt Cliffton of Anmials 24-7, link below:
https://www.animals24-7.org/2018/01/17/pit-bull-roulette-killed-38000-other-animals-in-2017/
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Before it is mentioned by anyone else, I am acknowledging that Mr. Clifton and his website are of leftist ideology. I disagree strongly with some of his views. However, his statistics - and there are many of them, over 35 years’ worth - not only correlate with insurance company statistics, but in some cases appear to go further, and their descriptions of the data-gathering are worth reading just for an example of how much other entities - to include HuffPo - hate what they are exposing as well. Strange bedfellows, indeed. The page labeled “Pit Stop Archives” is worth bookmarking. Norski