Woman dead after being attacked by her two pit bulls in animal hospital

[Ms. Toad]

129. Not odd at all, if you understand numbers.

What the two charts together tell you is that even though the absolute number of fatal pit bull bites is higher, it is only becasue there are a lot more of them than the other 8 more-prone-to-fatal-bites breeds.

Simplified - One of every 100,000 pit bulls is involved in a fatal bite, but 2 of every 100,000 husky was involved in a fatal bite.

If there were 100,000 of each breed, there would be one fatal pit bull bite and 2 fatal husky bites.

But there are more like 284,000,000 pit bulls (to produce 284 fatal bites) and only 6,500,000 huskies (to produce 13 fatal bites). In other words 44 times more pit bulls produce 22 times as many fatal bites, because the huskies are twice as likely to be involved in a fatal bite than a pit bull is. That's a gross simplification, because one report is a 15 year report, and the other is a bite rate, and I've rounded the bites off to whole numbers. But it's pretty close.