Aug 4, 2020
12:45:42pm
12:45:42pm
I don't think these studies say what you think they say...
The Spanish Study is referencing fewer than 2 data points per year (16 total?).
The Irish Study is larger, but it's actually looking at 11 different "legislated" breeds as a group. It doesn't separate pit bulls from the rest of the "legislated" pack at all. If it doesn't find a significant difference between golden retrievers and a group of 11 breeds of which pit bull is one, that's not a powerful defense of pit bulls.
The American study is by far the most robust, but itself admits that only 17% of incidents contained a "valid breed identification", so it clearly can't be used to conclusively determine anything about variation among breeds. But it does have some other interesting findings: Pit Bull apologists say that it's owner abuse or mismanagement that leads to these attacks rather than inbred differences in pit bulls, but those factors only contributed to 21% and 37% of occurrences respectively.
Finding information for all dog bites is impossible. Information for attacks that require trauma surgery in America is significantly better and it indicates that Pit bulls attacks are disproportionately dangerous: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21475022/
The most thorough investigation, and most specific information (for obvious reasons) is where an attack led to the death of a person. They get reported, they get investigated, more information is generated. You can look at the list of deaths along with the victims yourself:
It shows that dogs that are identified as pit bulls or pit bull mixes are involved in a huge majority of human fatalities by dogs. 84% of all dog-attack deaths in which a breed was identified, and even if we assumed all non-breed-identified attacks were not pit bulls (this is not going to be true, but is the most benevolent assumption we could make for the breed) they still were identified in 70% of all known deaths by a dog in America!
Last year it was 68%/60% In 2018 it was 74%/70%
Most sources say Pit Bulls are only 6% of the total population in America. Pit Bull defenders increase that number to 20% to include other breeds that can be identified as Pit Bulls. Even then, the 20% of dogs that fall into this category are causing around 70% of the deaths.
In America, it seems pretty obvious that Pit-bull-like or pit-bull-mix dogs are tremendously more likely to kill.
The Irish Study is larger, but it's actually looking at 11 different "legislated" breeds as a group. It doesn't separate pit bulls from the rest of the "legislated" pack at all. If it doesn't find a significant difference between golden retrievers and a group of 11 breeds of which pit bull is one, that's not a powerful defense of pit bulls.
The American study is by far the most robust, but itself admits that only 17% of incidents contained a "valid breed identification", so it clearly can't be used to conclusively determine anything about variation among breeds. But it does have some other interesting findings: Pit Bull apologists say that it's owner abuse or mismanagement that leads to these attacks rather than inbred differences in pit bulls, but those factors only contributed to 21% and 37% of occurrences respectively.
Finding information for all dog bites is impossible. Information for attacks that require trauma surgery in America is significantly better and it indicates that Pit bulls attacks are disproportionately dangerous: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21475022/
The most thorough investigation, and most specific information (for obvious reasons) is where an attack led to the death of a person. They get reported, they get investigated, more information is generated. You can look at the list of deaths along with the victims yourself:
It shows that dogs that are identified as pit bulls or pit bull mixes are involved in a huge majority of human fatalities by dogs. 84% of all dog-attack deaths in which a breed was identified, and even if we assumed all non-breed-identified attacks were not pit bulls (this is not going to be true, but is the most benevolent assumption we could make for the breed) they still were identified in 70% of all known deaths by a dog in America!
Last year it was 68%/60% In 2018 it was 74%/70%
Most sources say Pit Bulls are only 6% of the total population in America. Pit Bull defenders increase that number to 20% to include other breeds that can be identified as Pit Bulls. Even then, the 20% of dogs that fall into this category are causing around 70% of the deaths.
In America, it seems pretty obvious that Pit-bull-like or pit-bull-mix dogs are tremendously more likely to kill.
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