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To: Keith in Iowa

I don’t know, but a german shepherd did:
http://www.morgancountycitizen.com/?q=node/18044

a mastiff did:
http://www.times-age.co.nz/local/news/masterton-fears-after-kid-mauled/3962334/

a boxer did:
http://www.urbanacitizen.com/main.asp?SectionID=3&SubSectionID=5&ArticleID=157964

a doberman did:
http://www.kgan.com/shared/newsroom/top_stories/videos/kgan_vid_7383.shtml

a bulldog did:
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/9181642.Bradford_dog_attack_victim_s_arm__is_saved_/

a rottweiler did:
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/local_news/9183480.Seven_year_old_boy_mauled_by_rottweiler_on_Southend_beach/

But the only one we hear about is the pit bull. So strange...


28 posted on 08/11/2011 6:30:01 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs (Use it up, wear it out, make it over or do without.)
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To: LongElegantLegs
Anybody can make anecdotal statements. Here's the real data:

In 2010, the combination of pit bulls (22) and rottweilers (4) accounted for 79% of all fatal attacks. In the 6-year period from 2005 to 2010, this same combination accounted for 71% (129) of the total recorded deaths (181).

So the record is clear.
35 posted on 08/11/2011 7:02:22 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough.)
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To: LongElegantLegs

How many pit bull deaths and maimings?

100x.

It’s like arguing the flash mob demographics.

I have young kids and the punk teenagers keep them to look cool around girls. I keep my 9mm with hollow points, just to make sure Doggy takes a dirt nap if he gets frisky.

It’s the breed, and sometimes the owner.

I detest pit bulls.


48 posted on 08/11/2011 7:46:51 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: LongElegantLegs
I don't know, but a german shepherd did:
etc.

But the only one we hear about is the pit bull. So strange...

Did? Did what? Kill it's owner like the pit bull? Each of those stories is of a dog attacking and injuring a stranger. In not one did the victim die. Besides, how can you say "the only one we hear about" when you pulled each story from a newspaper's website?

111 posted on 08/12/2011 8:03:39 AM PDT by tnlibertarian (Don't mend SS, end it.)
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To: LongElegantLegs
They don't do it as much. Isolated incidents are not the same as regular occurrences, but I think you know that. Do you have a Pit Bull?
125 posted on 08/12/2011 10:15:24 AM PDT by mojitojoe ( 1400 years of existence & Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curry)
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To: LongElegantLegs

Not surprising. Agenda-driven, like so much in the media. What IS surprising is the lack of recognition this gets from conservatives. No one ever comments on the “dogs got loose” part of virtually every media article: loose from where?? Translation: These are NOT family pets, but resident dogs — kept chained in the backyard, unsocialized, unvetted, intact. Count on it. Read an article the other day about a pit bull type that mothers chicks and a cat. Won’t see THAT in the MSM, though...not on the agenda.


178 posted on 08/12/2011 7:16:35 PM PDT by JLLH
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To: LongElegantLegs

>>But the only one we hear about is the pit bull. So strange...<<

Since you documented cases where attacks from other breeds WERE reported, your comment makes no sense.


182 posted on 08/12/2011 7:42:54 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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