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Originally Posted by FlDebra  By the way -- you omitted "BY MUCH" after "hasn't cut dog bites." in the quote. The number of dog bites has gone down, just not as much as desired! It takes a while. Remember Ontario did not move all the pit bulls out! The ones already there were supposed to be spayed & neutered and muzzled. But they ARE still there! So, the first 5 years are NOT going to show a huge reduction. But as they start enforcing the spay & neuter, the number of pit bulls will slowly go down and so will the number of serious dog bites.
Remember what I said about statistics showing about anything you want them to? This is an example. sure the numbers have not gone down much yet -- but NEITHER has the actual pit bull population. You have to give the law time to really make a difference in the numbers of pit bulls walking around! Another question would be just how much enforcement has gone along with the law change? |
Dog Attack Deaths and Maimings, U.S. & Canada, September 1982 to June 25, 2010 - By Merritt Clifton - DogsBite.org
Here is the link posted earlier from this thread.
It's a compilation of "press accounts".
By compiling U.S. and Canadian press accounts between 1982 and 2010,1 Merritt Clifton, editor of Animal People, shows the breeds most responsible for serious injury and death.
Press accounts mean next to nothing. There is obvious bias against bully breeds. The press chooses what they do and do not report. That is not an accurate tally of injuries from dogs. It's a tally of injuries from dogs that the press felt like reporting.
Sine pit bulls bites seem to always make the news, that number isn't all that high. It looks like less than 100 a year? More kids drown in swimming pools yearly than that... There are double the # of drowning in the US in one year than injury from pit bulls in 20 years if we go by that site.
And there is absolutely no way they can do a % of pit bull population estimate. There are hundreds of thousands + more dogs that aren't registered. It is impossible to estimate.