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Old 04-02-2009, 10:11 AM  
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According to the Clifton study, pit bulls, Rottweilers, Presa Canarios and their mixes are responsible for 74% of attacks that were included in the study, 68% of the attacks upon children, 82% of the attacks upon adults, 65% of the deaths, and 68% of the maimings. In more than two-thirds of the cases included in the study, the life-threatening or fatal attack was apparently the first known dangerous behavior by the animal in question.
stats are fucked when you look at them like that. Lets just imagine we had a button to eliminate the 3 breeds he mentions.

Now lets redo the same stats you just mentioned, suprise suprise there would be 3 new breeds of dogs up there..

and if you eliminated those 3 breeds there would be 3 new breeds at the top of the list.
and so on and so on until there are no dogs left.


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If almost any other dog has a bad moment, someone may get bitten, but will not be maimed for life or killed, and the actuarial risk is accordingly reasonable.

i have my doubts about this guy, he is claiming if other dogs "go bad" you will "not" be killed, thats just plain false, as it has and does happen.


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If a pit bull terrier or a Rottweiler has a bad moment, often someone is maimed or killed--
i dont know what this guy is smoking but how did he come to that conclusion

Its very rare to be killed or maimed by a dog especially a pitbull , so "often" is probably a silly word to use.




if you gave 100 labradors to crack dealers, then gave 100 pitbulls to ballerina's, then took stats 50 years later, i guarantee you the labs would be far more dangerous statistically, all these "stats" are useless if you look at the problem so vaguely
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