another link over at news12 says it wasn’t even pits… it was a rottweiler and 2 mixed dogs — BUT POINT IS, I’M NOT IN FAVOR OF BANNING ANY TYPE OF DOG, that is chump logic

All you Pitty haters are a bunch of morons..you seem to be clearly ignorant of many beautiful statistics surrounding one of the most loyal,loving,fragile and so eager to please breed that is the outstanding pit bull/American Staffordshire Terrier .You freaks really need to get a clue !!!.

So the usual suspects defend pit bulls and resort to name calling of those that provide facts and evidence that pit bulls are far more likely to cause harm serious injuries and deaths to humans and other animals such as pets. To those among you that use the argument , “It’s the owner, not the dog.” Please explain why we don’t see nearly the damage from other breeds except maybe the Rottweiler. If this were a gun analogy could we say that shootings resulting in serious injury or death were likely to occur when a certain type of gun was used, let’s say a machine gun, fully automatic rifle or pistol? Answer: YES. A dog bred to kill and injure is far more dangerous than one bred for companionship or herding sheep. No matter who the owner is, the pit bull is a dangerous breed and presents a danger to society. I pray that no animal, especially a Pit bull, attacks any member of my family or their pet. i would insist on the “owner” paying the price for his or her negligence.

UGHHHH You people are all so ignorant of the breed @Matt so let me get this straight u just publicly admitted to killing dogs good we will get your letter to the proper authorities!!!Moron!!I am a 50 year old women who has had many dogs over the years and the best one i have had i am PROUD to say is a Pitbull/He is the biggest baby you could ever meet all my grandchildren have been around him since day one and guess what none of them have been “eaten”The ignorance in the letters posted here astound me!

Pits don’t know when to stop. They LOSE IT very easily Anyone that has one should not.

since when is a two dogs a “pack”? when pit bulls are involved and dumb reporters write stories. count me among the many millions of pit bull owners who just shake their heads when they read comments like these, too. how about we ban morons from breeding instead of pit bulls?

I would love to know what percentage of total attacks are intact males. Also, for a number of years the Rottweiler was the most popular breed in America, so please don’t confuse number with rate. Without that information, the breed statistics are pretty meaningless.

Hasn’t it been super cold and snowing in NY? Pit bulls aren’t exactly cold weather dogs. I think they need to find whoever is taking care of these dogs and charge that person with attempted murder. There is no way these dogs could survive without human help. This is so stupid. They shot one dog because it lunged at them? Great one dog. You should have killed all of them you idiot.

Here in Texas, if your dog injures or kills someone in an unprovoked attack, it means automatic felony charges for the owner. As it should be. I am so sick of hearing about idiotic dog owners with dangerous breeds who are shocked…SHOCKED!…that their dog chewed the face off of someone passing by their home.

Here are some stats on dog attacks. It specifically lists Pitbulls as the largest danger.

http://www.dogbitelaw.com/PAGES/statistics.html

The deadliest dogs

Merritt Clifton, editor of Animal People, has conducted an unusually detailed study of dog bites from 1982 to the present. (Clifton, Dog attack deaths and maimings, U.S. & Canada, September 1982 to November 13, 2006; click here to read it.) The Clifton study show the number of serious canine-inflicted injuries by breed. The author’s observations about the breeds and generally how to deal with the dangerous dog problem are enlightening.

According to the Clifton study, pit bulls, Rottweilers, Presa Canarios and their mixes are responsible for 74% of attacks that were included in the study, 68% of the attacks upon children, 82% of the attacks upon adults, 65% of the deaths, and 68% of the maimings. In more than two-thirds of the cases included in the study, the life-threatening or fatal attack was apparently the first known dangerous behavior by the animal in question. Clifton states:

If almost any other dog has a bad moment, someone may get bitten, but will not be maimed for life or killed, and the actuarial risk is accordingly reasonable. If a pit bull terrier or a Rottweiler has a bad moment, often someone is maimed or killed–and that has now created off-the-chart actuarial risk, for which the dogs as well as their victims are paying the price.

Clifton’s opinions are as interesting as his statistics. For example, he says, “Pit bulls and Rottweilers are accordingly dogs who not only must be handled with special precautions, but also must be regulated with special requirements appropriate to the risk they may pose to the public and other animals, if they are to be kept at all.”

God help us… you ignorant people just have an out of control level of hate and prejudice that is shining through clearly here!! please go retain some shred of your common sense and some shred of your decency before you ever address another issue concerning pit bulls… there are millions of pit bulls in this world… and if you truly are advocating for the phasing out of an entire breed of dog then you are a psychotic bumbling genocidal idiot. put the focus where it needs to be, on whomever owns the dog… unless of course you are also in favor of jailing all people of a certain ethnicity the next time one of them rapes a woman? because that is the level of your supreme political patheticness

2010 Dog Bite Fatalities

33 U.S. fatal dog attacks occurred in 2010. Despite being regulated in Military Housing areas and over 500 U.S. cities, pit bulls led these attacks accounting for 67% (22). Pit bulls make up approximately 5% of the total U.S. dog population.3
In 2010, the combination of pit bulls (22) and rottweilers (4) accounted for 79% of all fatal attacks. In the 6-year period from 2005 to 2010, this same combination accounted for 71% (129) of the total recorded deaths (181).

The combined breakdown between the two breeds is substantial. From 2005 to 2010, pit bulls killed 104 Americans, about one citizen every 21 days, versus rottweilers, which killed 25 Americans, about one citizen every 88 days.
2010 data shows that 61% (20) of the attacks occurred to children (11 years and younger) and 39% occurred to adults. Of the children, 75% (15) occurred to ages 4 and younger. Within this same age group, males represented 60% of the victims.
2010 data also shows that 36% (12) of the fatal incidents involved multiple dogs. Nearly a third, 30% (10), involved breeding on the dog owner’s property either actively or in the recent past, and 9% (3) involved chained dogs.
Dog ownership information for 2010 shows that family dogs comprised 73% (24) of the attacks that resulted in death; 88% (29) of these incidents occurred on the dog owner’s property and 12% (4) occurred off the owner’s property.
The state of California led fatalities in 2010 with 7 deaths; pit bulls contributed to 83% (6). Florida followed with 3 deaths and Georgia, Illinois, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas each had 2 deaths.

I’ve known dozens of pits over the years. Every single one was a big baby. It is the negligent owners and those who have them as ‘tough guy’ accessories who are the problem.

I currently have a pit bull mix, an abused and/or neglected stray I took in three years ago. He watched over a batch of kittens, picking them up by the scruff of the neck and returning them to mom when they strayed off. I still have two of them and they play rough all day then sleep together each night.

As with guns it’s the human factor which is to blame.

Was the guy wearing a meat suit? Maybe he had bacon in his pocket.

Markdpez, Matt, Harry, Len … When I say you are all quite ignorant, please don’t take offense. I mean it in the literal sense that you are all sadly misinformed and not, as much as it may appear, actually of sub-standard intelligence.

Yes its almosy always how the owner raises it.Harry and Len are both idiots.

Wow Markdpez – you need to stop listening to stupid people and start fact find for yourself, because they are making you look really dumb. You will never find one single factual citation that says pit bulls can turn violent at any moment no matter how they are raised. Some dogs may become diseased which can cause neurological problems, but that can happen to any breed of dog – not just pits.

It is irrefutable that PBs have become the dog of choice for the mongrel races of humans. Thus, and sadly because their “owners” are no better, society must put them all down.

Yeah, lets outlaw pitbulls and why stop there? cars kill people too and don’t forget fast food, guns, etc…..

Where the heck are you getting those statistics?? The fact of the matter is this is a feral pack of dogs – it wouldn’t matter if they were labs. (I know – start screaming locking jaws – yawn, so not true). Feral dogs that pack together survive by reverting into wild animals and hunt on instinct. These dogs were probably mistreated to begin with. I’m not going to go into facts about pit bulls, because it will fall on deaf ears. I wish people would look up TRUE facts and not ramble off hearsay.

It isn’t the dog you morons, it’s the owner.

in addition. From what I have always been told. Pit Bulls are just naturally wired in a certain way that makes them have the ability to turn violent at any momment, no matter how well the owner raises them.

I disagree with the simplistic answer that “its just the way the owners raised it”

Harry is wrong. I googled it and there were 23 total dog fatalities in 2008. 1 every 17 days from one breed is nonsense.

There are no pitbulls in my neighborhood anymore. Ground up and spiced they serve as excellent catfood for my Persians.

According to statistics, a human being is killed by a pit bull on average every 17 days in the US. Maybe it’s time to start thinking about outlawing these dogs as pets and classifying them as the wild animals they are.