They need eradicated.

Decent hog hunting dogs.

Some people have to learn the hard way

Glad it was the owner and not someone's kid or something. At least those are good pitbulls now.

That's why insurance companies rate pitbulls as the most dangerous dogs and most won't sell you home insurance if they know you own one.

yup , even the nicest pit in the world is walking around with the ability to do serious harm 100% of the time , those jaws were bred to hold a hog or other animal.

caution must always be used with such powerful tools

a little like the guys who keep big cats around , with great power comes great responsibility and far to often it is the irresponsible who seek such powerful creatures as pets.

The pits I see that are potential problems are the ones without jobs. I'm less concerned when I see a pit in the back of a truck wearing a cut vest. But that still doesn't guarantee it won't become an issue. I've been on a couple hunts where the only things that came home were a chewed up Blackmouth Cur and an empty cut vest.

"Nanny dogs"

I have no desire to have a pitbull. Yes, they sometimes kill people. There's a huge number of pitbulls in the US and most are never a problem.



Statistically, people are more dangerous to babies than pitbulls and not just by abortion. Well over 1000 babies are murdered by people in the US each year.

Keith

Keith

Statistically, over 60% of fatal dog attacks in the USA involve a pit bull. If somebody is killed by a dog, more likely than not it was by a pit bull.

I was a Prudential agent from 1986 until 2002. I could not write a homeowner policy if the residence had more than four dogs, or if any dog was one of four breeds. I remember pit bulls, great danes, and there were two other breeds.

Prudential sold their property division to Liberty about the time I retired.

There are around 341,000,000 people in the US. Around 24,000 people were murdered by people last year. There are around 18,000,000 pitbulls and pitbull like dogs in the US. 51 people were killed by pitbulls and pitbull like dogs last year. Only .00028% of pitbulls killed people last year. Proportionately, people murdered nearly 29 times as many people as pitbulls killed.

Keith

So what? I wouldn't leave a baby with a stranger, either.

Two different family members of mine have owned pit bulls and they both snapped out of nowhere and attacked somebody (one was ME), thankfully neither time fatal. Neither animal was mistreated or trained to fight.

I think if we treated violent re offenders the way we should treat pit bulls both numbers would drop dramatically.

Any randomly selected human is 29 times more likely to have murdered someone than a randomly selected pitbull to have killed someone.

I'm not saying pitbulls aren't rarely dangerous to people. I'm saying people are much more dangerous to people. There's a great many things more likely to kill someone than a pitbull. Pitbulls just get more attention.

For instance, there's only 6,500,000 horses in the US and they kill over 100 people a year on average.

Keith

with 1 million Labrador retrievers and 9 fatal attacks between 2005 and 2021 16 years that is 9/16=0.5625 and a million of them you would have a 1 in 0.0000005625 or a 0.000056%

or you are 5 times more likely to be killed by a Pit than a lab


the human to pit comparison is only fair if you let the 17 of the 18 million pits run free and see how many of them kill each other in turf fights and such over the course of the year.

If we're just talking about dogs, pit bulls are more likely to be involved in fatal incidents than other breeds, so it would be prudent to choose another breed as a family dog. I don't care about those other categories you keep bringing in; we're talking about dogs.