Dogbites.org is trash
You should link actual research by professionals. Most dogs in these attacks are labeled pits when they're are mutts or mixes. I'm all for holding irresponsible people accountable but let's use facts to justify our cases. Here let me help you:
a paper published in
The Veterinary Journal, researchers say animal shelter staff frequently mislabel non-pit-bull dogs as pit bulls
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“Pit bull” is not a breed but a type that describes several breeds. The American Staffordshire terrier, Staffordshire bull terrier, and American pit bull terrier are all pit bulls. These dogs have been
maligned as violent and aggressive by nature—a reputation they have
not earned. But news reports disproportionately report the culprits of dog attacks as pit bulls, even when, as scientists note, it’s unlikely that most of them are. As the researchers cite, about 46 percent of American dogs are mutts, but 90 percent of dogs named by the media in attack stories were labeled with a single breed or type (often pit bull). The numbers just don’t add up, they say.
DNA Tests Show Many Shelter Dogs Are Mislabeled as Pit Bulls
Position Statement on Pit Bulls
No. The first thing I did when I was consulting this book is reach out to the experts in the animal sciences to talk about what’s going on with these incidents and how best to prevent them. Fatalities are incredibly rare. In the U.S., we have 320 million people and between 77 and 83 million dogs. So your chance of being killed by any type of dog in the U.S. in any given year is one in 10 million.
People who have studied these cases, like Jeffrey Sacks at the CDC, have shown that
when it comes to fatalities caused by pit bulls, the breed identifications are often not accurate. The title “pit bull” has expanded so dramatically over the years that people are lumping any dog with a large head and short coat into that category rather than separating out each of the pit bull breeds.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/api.na...-bull-ban-aggressive-dog-breed-bronwen-dikkey
The article above really shows the positives and negatives of our society. Dog should've been killed and the owner sued