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"There are thousands of emergency room visits each year caused by dog bites. The leading dog in this parade is, I hthink, either the lab or golden retriever."

Yes, but 2 qualifications go w/those assertions: dog BITES or dog MAULINGS?

And considering Labs are at #1 AKC regis w/more than 2x the regis as #2 Goldens, it's not surprising the sheer absolute NUMBER of "bites" is more. There are fewer "pits", I'm sure.

It's the %.

Oh, and the Dobe obsession was primarily the '70s. The '80s a little, but the '80s is when the "pit" "rage" 1st caught on. I did a pretty big report on it my '88 year of college for English. I'll never forget laying out all the pages on a floor and figuring out how to rearrange stuff (before real use of word processors).

"Oh, and the Dobe obsession was primarily the '70s. The '80s a little, but the '80s is when the "pit" "rage" 1st caught on.

Time flys when you get old. I've rescuing and turning dobs around since then.

The true story though is that labs and retrievers do do a lot more damage than they get credit for. They do maul on larger scale than anyone knows. Folks have been killed by them.
Something called "retriever rage." I've seen it and its scary.

However, the Pitt does not hold the place of honor as the worlds most violent vicious dog.

That honor goes to Fila Brazilaro, outlawed in most countries and severely frowned on here.

I've been bitten scads of times by dobes, Fila scares me.