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DogsBite.org – a national dog bite victim’s advocacy group – found that 568 Americans were killed by dogs from 2005 to 2020. Pit bulls were reportedly responsible for 67% of those deaths.
There have been 20 fatal dog bite attacks so far in 2022.
National Pit Pull victim site.
My wife has been attacked by a junkyard hound dog, my sister-in-law has been attacked twice by pit bulls down the street and the county in the Roanoke area refuses to do anything about it. It’s been to court, their hands are tied there’s nothing they can do about that dog and it has attacked her two times and they got additional pit bulls on the property now.
My brother-in-law was attacked by a Mastiff that he knew and lived with and the dog was older and just had a freaking mental snap tore him up pretty good on the arm.
I’ve had dogs all my life and I would never trust a pitbull and I’ve been around guard dogs many kind of dogs, pit bulls aren’t even a guard dog they are just an attack dog, and not necessarily on command.
But I’m not letting other breeds off so easy, I’ve seen Border Collies and other shepherding dogs beat the crap out of other dogs for no reason and although I’ve never seen them do that to a human... trying to bust up a fight might cause some issues.
https://www.nationalpitbullvictimawareness.org/
“Pit bulls were reportedly responsible for 67% of those deaths.”
Good data. Defenders of the breed like to say other breeds are more likely to bite you. That is probably true, but vicious little lap dogs don’t usually take your arm off, or kill a child before anyone can stop them.