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Originally Posted by kane
I can't say whether or not they are more likely to bite, they probably are not, but you simply can't say that they are no more likely to kill than most dogs.
Here are stats taken from 2009-2013. During that time in the US 283 people died from dog bites. Pit bulls accounted for 62.2% of those deaths. The next closest was rottweiler at 11.7%.
Any big dog that decides it wants to do damage is capable of doing plenty of damage, but the stats don't lie, Pits are responsible for more deaths than every other breed combined. |
If you do a little research, you'll find that site/link you posted actually isn't legit. It was started by someone who got bit by what *might* or might not have been a Pit. Their stats are only culled from media reports of such attacks, which, if we consider media bias for pit bull stories (reporters listening to their police scanner apparently ignoring labrador, chow-chow and poodle incidents), means they're completely irrelevant.
According to the American Temperament Test Society, Pit Bulls are among the coolest characters in the dog world, and rate better than Collies and Retrievers and Cocckers and so on. It's part of the reason they're so popular for zootherapy, helping veterans, elderly people and children who are traumatized or with terminal conditions, as well as search & rescue and first response animals.
Pitbulls aren't nasty, aggressive dogs unless you make them that way.
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