12 yr study of deaths from dog bites - Pit Bulls lead the pack with 65%

TIDE-HSV said:

It's a human problem. A lot have been bred for the wrong purposes. Getting popular is about the worst thing that can happen to a breed...

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Intl.Aperture said:

The bolded part above is so true.

I love German Shepherds. Was raised with them. There are several reasons I don't own one at the moment but one of the reasons is the rampancy of hip-dysplasia brought on by reckless breeding. The breeding process has been split for some time between show and work - show the more likely of the 2 to have those health issues present but one must be very diligent in finding a breeder who's litters have only presented with incidental health issues.

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Dad stabs family dog to death to free 1-year-old daughter being attacked
Police said a preliminary investigation indicates the child was playing in the kitchen with her father nearby when the family's pit bull terrier attacked the child and bit her in the face, which caused major trauma.

The father tried to separate the dog from the child but was unable to do so.

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COLUMBIA, Md. —
It has been more than two months since a 64-year-old Howard County woman was fatally mauled by a dog that had been rescued from more than 400 miles away.
Robin Conway had been fostering the dog for two weeks. Her family remains in such shock that they were unable to speak with the 11 News I-Team on camera. Conway's sister told 11 News that Conway just loved the dog, and she said the family supported the I-Team's effort to find out how it happened and what was known about the dog before it came to live with Conway.

Conway loved animals and was committed to the cause of rescuing them when the unthinkable happened. Her husband told authorities he found the dog standing on his wife's body in their backyard. An autopsy concluded she died due to multiple injuries from the dog.

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Its On A Slab said:

The quickest way to get into an argument on social media is to point out that nearly every vicious dog attack on humans tends to involve a pit bull.

Regardless of whether there are legions of calm, loving pits, doesn't it stand to reason that we should at least look into why pits are nearly always involved in these attacks?

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