Which Dogs Bite?

[Soundman]

28. What is there to prove?

It is all mostly bull shit and smoke and mirrors. I am quoting from memory here but the part about the dog experts being wrong about breed type 43% of the time. Perhaps when shown all known breeds including the most obscure breeds. But you would not seriously say that dog experts would wrongly identify the top 10 or 20 breeds would you?

Do you think quoting 60 year old studies is relevant today?

I am pretty sure a phone "survey" is not a scientific study.

And the one data set only applies to one county in Colorado, and left out dogs that were owned for less than six months, or when no phone number was listed. Hardly scientific.

Common sense applies to all dogs. I agree owners are to blame for the majority of bites. But that is not relevant to this discussion. As a motorcycle rider we say there are two types of riders, those who have been down and those that will go down. The same applies to dog owners. There are two types of dog owners, those who's dogs have got loose and those whose dogs will get loose. Pit bulls like chows are very strong willed and are not known to be obedient when they are on the loose. When loose they are both dangerous and unpredictable. Same with rots.

At any rate I imagine if you were to go back to the fifties you would find that collies were the most notorious biters. Hardly relevant today.