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To: LongElegantLegs

This is a statement directly from the CDC which you can find on their website with very little effort. There is also plenty of politically correct nonsense there that will make you happy...because they have to accommodate people with illusions like yourself. But the numbers and what I’ve observed with my own two eyes don’t lie.

http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/dog-bites/dogbite-factsheet.html


Results—During 1997 and 1998, at least 27 people died of dog bite attacks (18 in 1997 and 9 in 1998). At least 25 breeds of dogs have been involved in 238 human DBRF during the past 20 years. Pit bull-type dogs and Rottweilers were involved in more than half of these deaths. Of 227 reports with relevant data, 55 (24%) human deaths involved unrestrained dogs off their owners’ property, 133 (58%) involved unrestrained dogs on their owners’ property, 38 (17%) involved restrained dogs on their owners’ property, and 1 (< 1%) involved a restrained dog off its owner’s property.


80 posted on 08/11/2011 10:54:55 PM PDT by reardensteel
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To: reardensteel
From your link:

It does not identify specific breeds that are most likely to bite or kill, and thus is not appropriate for policy-making decisions related to the topic. Each year, 4.7 million Americans are bitten by dogs. These bites result in approximately 16 fatalities; about 0.0002 percent of the total number of people bitten. These relatively few fatalities offer the only available information about breeds involved in dog bites. There is currently no accurate way to identify the number of dogs of a particular breed, and consequently no measure to determine which breeds are more likely to bite or kill.

100 posted on 08/12/2011 6:21:55 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs (Use it up, wear it out, make it over or do without.)
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