Celebrities with their Pit Bulls

[LostOne4Ever]

107. Probably because of the media

The media seems to like to glorify the breeds as being viscous attack dogs, so there is a significant portion of the public views them as that as well. Thus, you have a lot of people wanting to get these dogs and encouraging them to be viscous.

Again, we need to take breed and population into account with those numbers. If one dog made up 80% of the population and were responsible for 60% of the attacks that does not mean the dog is especially viscous, especially if there is a dog making up 2% of the population and doing 39% of the attacks.

I get that you had a scary experience. But I don't think its fair to compare the entire breed on the misbehavior of a few dogs. We had a shitsu at one time who was a holy terror. Would it be right to judge all shitsu's based on that one dog?

Dog fatalities in the US range around 20 deadly attacks per year. You are more likely to die from lighting than you are from a dog. While there were 31 deadly dog attacks in 2011 pitbulls (including all 4 breeds) make up 1-2million dogs. Using the lower bounds of that number and assuming all attacks were by pitbulls that means that 99.9969% of pitbulls didn't kill anyone. Using that one biased website's number of attacks that still means that 99.78% of pits dont attack...and thats over 20 years!!!

Let me put it this way using that websites numbers thats only 1 in 447 pits that attack at all (and thats from a 20 year study...how many pits live that long?), and only one in 32258 pits kill and this is using biased numbers against the breed. Is it really fair to judge an entire breed by those numbers? Again more people die on average from lighting (55 a year) than all dogs (20) combined.