Pit Bull Attack

[Coal Dragger]

Then those agents get reassigned to sh!tty posts like the Clintons....

LOL.

The Clintons are so bad getting bitten by a GSD every now and then is preferable.

Maybe the dog just knows that the agents are Feds. He can sense their love for killing people’s dogs, and he’s defending himself.

[chuckman]

Thread revival. I just read something from the World Animal Foundation, pit bulls make up less than 6% of the the dog population but responsible for 70% of all bites.

[1168]

Thread revival. I just read something from the World Animal Foundation, pit bulls make up less than 6% of the the dog population but responsible for 70% of all bites.

I’m a little curious on how that data gets reported and confirmed.

[chuckman]

I’m a little curious on how that data gets reported and confirmed.

Here is more: https://worldanimalfoundation.org/ad...te-statistics/

I imagine if you contact them they'd share their methodology.

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Thread revival. I just read something from the World Animal Foundation, pit bulls make up less than 6% of the the dog population but responsible for 70% of all bites.

6% population sounds about right but not 70% of all bites. If the type bite was categorized as fatal then 70% might be closer. WAF is generally an apologist for pit bulls... misidentified, abused... on and on.

[1168]

Here is more: https://worldanimalfoundation.org/ad...te-statistics/

I imagine if you contact them they'd share their methodology.

Rgr, thanks.

Edit: I’m going to have to do a lot of fact checking on that site. First thing I saw was: “The third deadliest creature on Earth is a dog.” I find that hard to believe in a world containing humans, mosquitoes, snakes, and parasites/pathogens.

Edit2: they made that “3rd deadliest” statistic up out of thin air.

[chuckman]

6% population sounds about right but not 70% of all bites. If the type bite was categorized as fatal then 70% might be closer. WAF is generally an apologist for pit bulls... misidentified, abused... on and on.

I don't know anything about them (WAF). I stumbled on that while searching for something about Jack Russells. It seems they do a lousy job as pit apologists as they could squeeze the data to be more favorable to them.

[ChattanoogaPhil]

I don't know anything about them (WAF). I stumbled on that while searching for something about Jack Russells. It seems they do a lousy job as pit apologists as they could squeeze the data to be more favorable to them.

According to the link you posted pit bulls are involved in near 70% of all bite fatalities, not 70% of all bites. It's in a BIG pie chart in the link.

[Averageman]

6% population sounds about right .

I'm thinking I'm seeing a heck of a lot more than 6% a lot of them are mixed.

[1168]

I'm thinking I'm seeing a heck of a lot more than 6% a lot of them are mixed.

you may be right. Last time I looked, some kennel clubs don’t really recognize it as a breed in the first place. So even a “purebred” might not be seen in the statistics being reported. Where many of the ones we see in the course of our lives are mixed. It’s a poorly enough defined breed that the definitions wander and are sometimes in the eye of the beholder.