• strobel@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Where is all this pit bull hate coming from? They're not anymore dangerous to people than other breeds of similar size, yet they get such a disproportionate amount of blame. I'm not sure why.

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      1 year ago

      Statistics… you can look up bite/ attack/ fatality statistics and pit bulls dominate the leaderboards.

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        1 year ago

        Since 2016, at least 65 different breeds and mixed breeds have been involved in fatal dog attacks in the U.S. including: Akita, Boxer, Doberman Pinscher, German Shepherd, Great Dane, Husky, Labrador Retriever, Mastiff, Pitbull-Type, Rottweiler, and many others.

        The risk of being fatally attacked by a dog (of any breed) given an average of 33 fatal attacks every year in the U.S. and a population of 330,000,000. According to CDC data, fatal dog attacks are exceedingly rare - lightning strikes cause more fatalities (~36/year) than dogs.

        https://www.fataldogattacks.org/

        So even if pit bulls are the "dominant" killers, it's the "dominant" one out of 33 deaths. Which could be 3.

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          1 year ago

          bite/ attack/ fatality

          Yay strawman! I state the above… And then you focus on only one thing! Go argue somewhere else moron. Congrats on ONLY caring about dead people… And not the ones that were maimed/severely hurt.

          It's funny because pulling from another source that's PRO pitbull… https://thepitbullcenter.com/pitbull-attack-statistics/

          1. In 2020, Pit Bulls caused 33 deaths of adults aged over 20 years. (Pawsome Advice)

          So is it 33 deaths total per year for all dogs and pitbulls do 3 of those 33? or 33 attributed to pit bulls period… and there's only a handful additional deaths per year?

          Oh wait, they answer my question too!

          14 Pit Bulls caused 22 of 28 adult deaths (79%) and 16 (57%) people killed were females. (Dog Bite Law)

          So ~80% of dog fatalities dealing with adults humans were pitbulls… Sounds a bit lopsided since 80% of all dogs in the USA aren't pitbulls now… doesn't it?