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Bite Information If you read the stories behind the headlines, the vast majority of dog bites/fatilities are caused by dogs who are not kept as family members and who had shown serious aggressive tendencies previous to the attack (despite what their owners/guardians claimed). Dogs who spend the majority of their time tied out or caged with inadequate exercise, kept in packs of 2 or more, without appropriate training and human contact are far and away more likely to be involved in bites and fatalities than the typical family pet. The American Dog Owners Association (ADOA),American Humane Society, American Kennel Club (AKC), American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), American Working Dog Federation (AWDF), Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT), Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), International Assocation of Animal Behavior Consultants (IAABC), International Association of Canine Professionals (IACP), National Animal Control Association (NACA), National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA), National Association of Dog Obedience Instructors (NADOI), and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) all oppose breed bans and support legislation that targets the problem - irresponsible guardians and vicious dogs of any breed. Breed bans punish law abiding citizens who keep well socialized, well trained, and loving family companion animals and have very little effect on the criminals who are responsible for creating dangerous dogs. Breed bans are often expanded to include Rottweilers, Doberman Pinschers, German Shepherds, Shar Pei, Old English Bulldogs, American Bulldogs, Bull Terriers, Huskys, Boxers... no breeds are safe. California,
Florida, Illinois, Maine, Any attack made by a dog even remotely resembling an APBT makes National news, while attacks and even fatalities by other breeds rarely are published anywhere except local newspapers. Any stocky brindle, blue, yellow or fawn dog can be labeled a Pit Bull - even your friendly Yellow Lab. The APBT bite statistics are artificallly inflated because they include dogs of many different breeds and mixes. For
a little perspective: In the period of time from 1965 to the present, there were
55 million dogs in the United States - which means that "there were .0000004%
of dogs in the population who fatally attacked people.
In the period from 1999-2002, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported
that, of accidental deaths in the U.S., How
effective are breed bans? "There are interesting statistics when considering
the Denver situation where there was a "Breed-specific legislation is not an effective approach for regulating dogs' behavior in communities. Although such bans might comfort individuals who have had unpleasant experiences with particular breeds or have heard of attacks by specific dog breeds in the media, the bans do not act to effectively regulate the behavior of any breed or of dogs and their owners collectively. The bans carry with them too much potential for arbitrary or improper enforcement: inaccurate breed identification by officials, difficulty enforcing breed bans against mixed-breed dogs, animal control, and court system overload, and the potential for not identifying a genuinely "dangerous dog" as such because it doesn't fall into the specified breed categories. Unfortunately, large breeds of dogs such as Dobermans, German Shepherd Dogs, and Pit Bulls are popularly believed to be dangerous, and therefore may be judged more severely by judges than smaller, "cuddlier" breeds.59 Government
officials at the local and state level should focus on the problem itself - dangerous
canine behavior - and concentrate their efforts on dogs' and owners' conduct.
In doing so, officials can maintain a safe community for both dog owners and other
residents." "[Karen] Delise illustrates the information problem in the following graphic way (quoted from E-mail by her to Attorney Kenneth Phillips): Consider five fatal attacks included in the CDC statistics. A man was bitten in the forearm by a Pit bull. The bite was not serious but introduced into the wound was a virulent and fast spreading bacteria. The man died 4 days later from this virulent bacterial infection. A teenage girl give birth to a infant, distraught and frightened, she tossed the hours-old infant into a neighboring-junk-strewn yard where two Pit bulls resided. The dogs killed the newborn. A German shepherd mixed breed dog went into a bedroom, lifted a newborn out of a crib and carried the infant (by the head) into the living room where the adults were seated. A man restrains his girlfriend, while ordering his Pit bull to repeatedly attack her. He is eventually convicted of murder and is serving a 20-year sentence. An elderly man attempts to stop his German Shepherd dog from fence fighting with his neighbor's dog, the dog turns on his owner, severely mauling him, inflicting fatal head and neck wounds. The
CDC was right, in that five people died as a result of a dog bite. But were all
these bites the result of aggression? Were they the same type or level of aggression?
Which behaviors initiated the attack, human or canine? So the number of deaths
by dogs (as per the CDC) cannot be used to define aggression, or the aggression
of certain breeds, as aggression is not defined or qualified. Alfons
Estelt of the American Temperament Test Society, Inc., stated the following with
respect to pit bulls: "The American Pit Bull Terriers participating in our
temperament evaluation have thus far shown a passing rate of 95%. The other 121
breeds of dogs in our tests showed the average passing rate of 77%"
"A
fatal dog attack is not just a dog bite by a big or aggressive dog. It is usually
a perfect storm of bad human-canine interactions -- the wrong dog, the wrong background,
the wrong history in the hands of the wrong person in the wrong environmental
situation." (Malcolm Gladwell, "Troublemakers - What pit bulls can teach
us about profiling," The New Yorker, Feb. 6, 2006.) "There's
no way to really identify all the breeds that could pose a danger,"[Kenneth
Phillips] says. "The ban on breeds is a very simplistic and knee-jerk reaction
to a much more complicated problem. A breed ban only takes care of 10% of the
problem. The other 90%—training, socialization, health of dog, the victim's
behavior—a breed ban doesn't address those issues." Link
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Why
BSL Does Not Work: From
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fact, since passing its pit bull ban in May 2005 "Ohio
dog warden, Tom Skeldon, And
There's More: Here
again, the statistic does not prove that this is a Portland,
Oregon, also had a dog bite fatality in 1986, Dallas,
Texas, also had a dog bite fatality in 1986, did *
BSL Does Not Work ~ Updates * Scottish Parliment Legislates Against Dangerous Dogs ~ Not Dangerous Breeds On
June 9, 2008 Minister of Agriculture, The
reason for this was that there was The
ban was installed in 1993 after three biting incidents where New
rules will no longer select on breed or looks
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