Hmm... That's odd.
The CDC report available here says that Pit Bulls are the #1 most frequent fatal dog attack.
Apparently the chihuahua's aren't doing much damage.
| Total Dog-Bite-Human Fatalities 1979-1998, by breed | |
| --------------------------------------------------- | |
| [Purebred] | |
| Pit Bull | 66 |
| Rottweiler | 39 |
| German Shepherd | 17 |
| Husky | 15 |
| Malamute | 14 |
| Doberman | 9 |
| Chow Chow | 8 |
| Great Dane | 7 |
| St. Bernard | 7 |
I would like to see those numbers broken down by whether the victim was the dog’s owner or owner’s family.
It’s truly astonishing how often the pit bull attacks within its owner’s family, especially children if had often previously been very sweet with.
I haven’t been able to find the story since, but I remember one time reading a news story about an old lady who had died in her home. She had small dogs, one of which was a chihuahua. They found her partially eaten body with her small dogs gnawing on her and the dogs got very aggressive when the coroner came to take the body away.