[quote]Twice in the last year I was walking my Shelties and had a stray Pit charge us. The posters in this thread have told me that this powerful, muscular breed that can be dog agressive, that will grab on and not let go, pose no more threat than any other dog. Are YOU being intellectually honest with me?
DeputyDawg: I admire and respect your passion, yet you continue to throw out nothing but statistics and quotes from two out of publication books. The late Woody Hayes, former Ohio State coach had a great qoute about statistics. A reporter after a game was giving him some stats and he said something like this “go tell the 6 foot tall man who drowns in a river with an average depth of 5 feet how important statistics are”.[/quote]
Huh???
You`re right Statistics don`t matter if it`s your family member?
ARE YOU BEING DISRESPECTFUL TO THE PEOPLE BITTEN,ATTACKED,KILLED BY OTHER BREEDS????
Again,WHAT IS YOUR OBSESSION WITH THESE DOGS RUSTY???????
Do you NOT care about the other people in this world ho have been JUST as badly injured by other Breeds?
They are JUST as dead!
Do you NOT want to reduce dog bites by listening to the Experts instead of Forum Posters who don`t know what they`re talking about and who cite personal stories or Newspaper accounts by a biased media to “prove” the “dangerousness of these dogs??
WHAT IS YOUR POINT RUSTY???????????????????
Do you need to be right about these dogs?
YOU AREN`T!
Do you need to win?
Is it a contest?
What?????
I will NOT respond to you any more Rusty.
You are a “Pit Bull” hater in sheep`s clothing who has NO interest in factual information.
I don`t debate on this issue.There is NOTHING to debate.
There are FACTS.
When there are meaningful dog bite Statistics by Breed then there may be something to debate.
http://www.nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com/dogbites1.asp
[quote]“A CDC study on fatal dog bites lists the breeds involved in fatal attacks over 20 years (Breeds of dogs involved in fatal human attacks in the United States between 1979 and 1998). It does not identify specific breeds that are most likely to bite or kill, and thus is not appropriate for policy-making decisions related to the topic. Each year, 4.7 million Americans are bitten by dogs. These bites result in approximately 16 fatalities; about 0.0002 percent of the total number of people bitten. These relatively few fatalities offer the only available information about breeds involved in dog bites.
*****There is currently no accurate way to identify the number of dogs of a particular breed, and consequently no measure to determine which breeds are more likely to bite or kill.”******
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/duip/biteprevention.htm[/quote]
Pull your head out of your …..Rusty!
You “debate” your little stories with people like yourself.
I`ll listen to the Experts with the FACTS.
