[from occupied ga]

I looked up the statistics for killings an serious maulings by breed for the worst offenders and normalized by the % of the dog population. If you do then you see that PBs although they account for far more of the attacks than the other dangerous breeds are actually third on the list in terms of individual risk by dangerous breeds

Breed	Normalized Risk	Maulings/fatalities	Pct of dog pop
Rottweiler	160333	481	0.003
Wolf hybrid	84000	84	0.001
PB	59697	1970	0.033
Presa	38000	76	0.002
Husky	3300	66	0.02

Personally even if I wanted a pet, I'd avoid all of these breeds

[sargon]

Personally even if I wanted a pet, I'd avoid all of these breeds

I've heard that German Shepherds are up there on the list, too, and I can personally recall a couple of incidents down here in Florida where German Shepherd police dogs have attacked the wrong person (in other words not the suspect being targeted.)

[snarkytart]

Not many people own Presas but out of the 18 people killed so far this year buy dogs, ll were killed by PB or PB mix.

[proudofthesouth]

I'm a dog and just about any kind of critter lover.

My son has a wolf/Shepard hybrid.

His home owner's insurance company doesn't know that he has it and I've told him that if they ever find out out they will cancel his policy and he won't be able to get another one.

I can hardly wait for the day that animal dies but now my son tells me he wants to get another one when that happens!

He is a very good son but when it comes to wolf hybrids he has an absolute blind spot and refuses to listen to reason!

[brytlea]

Curious how they did the math (but it wouldn’t mean anything to me, I am terribly math challenged). But it’s an interesting list. One thing about Pit Bulls is I don’t know how they quantify what is a pit bull. Do they include Am Staffs, American Pit Bull, Bull Terrier and all of the other bully breeds? Also, wolf hybrids (which I am opposed to, and I know I will take some flack for saying that) but not sure how they decide if the animal is honestly a hybrid or simply wolfy looking but maybe they can tell with DNA now so they may be sure before they label it.
And husky, does that include Siberians, Malmutes and other norther breeds?
Just wondering.
I don’t know anything about Presas other than the little I’ve read and they don’t appeal to me. Of those breeds I wouldn’t have a problem owning one of the bully breeds if I knew where it came from and ditto a Rottie.

[JediJones]

I’m confused. Is mauling by pit bull more or less rare than getting pregnant by being raped?