no i'm afraid of pple doing much worse things to me than biting
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no i'm afraid of pple doing much worse things to me than biting
Dogs and people have something in common. If either of them convince me they are about to hurt me or my family they will be put down instantly.
sorry ur wrong. chihuahuas bite more pple than any other breed. just that their bites aren't as severe as a bigger dog so it's not reported
And you base this claim on what?
I think the biggest problem is people fail to do their research. Pitbulls and rotweilers can be just as sweet as any other dog, like I said I had a part pitbull/German shepherd that was extremely loving. But if you don't have the time to devote to your animal, there is a problem. If you have small children that smack bite and pull on a dog, its a problem. Breed plays no role, owners do.
Here is just one study that was conducted. Over a 5 year period in Philadelphia over 50% of dog bites to children at one hospital were Pit Bulls. Read the article and you will the overwhelming incidence of Pit Bull bites when compared to there population.
Doctors Alison Kaye, Jessica Belz and Richard Kirschner studied 551 dog bite injury cases that were brought to the Division of Plastic Surgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia over a five-year period. The victims ranged in age from newborn to 18 years. As is the usual procedure in trauma cases, as much data as possible was gathered about the event that caused the injury at the time that the patient was admitted. One important bit of data that was collected in these cases was the breed of the dog that bit the child. What is striking in this report is the fact that of all of those injuries where the dog's breed was identifiable, 50.9% were due to pitbulls (55.7% if we include crosses). The next closest breeds were Rottweilers accounting for 8.9% of the bites (10.3% with crosses), German Shepherds with 3.7% (7.0% with crosses), and Akitas and Cocker Spaniels each account for 3% of traumatic dog bites. According to the available statistics the most popular breeds of dogs in the city of Philadelphia are, Labrador Retrievers, German Shepherds, Yorkshire Terriers, Bulldogs and Rottweilers. As in most large cities in America, pitbulls (defined as American Pit Bull Terriers, Staffordshire Terriers, and American Staffordshire Terriers) account for less than 1% of the canine population. On the basis of these statistics alone one would expect that Labrador Retrievers would have the highest bite rate yet they are virtually invisible in this data set. Instead we find that pitbulls are responsible for more than 50 times the rate of bite injuries than what we would expect given their population numbers. This is from information taken as part of medical intake of dog bite victims who are being treated for trauma. It is not based on press reports, nor does it represent some kind of inherent bias against square-headed dogs. No matter how much one may love the bully breeds, these are facts that, like a surveillance video of a robbery which identifies a perpetrator, cannot simply be explained away under the cloak of bias or misrepresentation.
I had a relative who is a less than upstanding citizen and several years ago the police raided his home while there they shot his pit with a 45 in chest ,she lived I think she was hit twice it barely left a mark , but she was shell shocked and no one could be near her but him after that
what would be considered suspect?
