Sentences with phrase «breeds than pit bulls»

I agree there are more dangerous breeds than pit bulls but the difference is everyone knows the traits of those breeds whereas pit bulls are pawned off as a clean slate generic dog.

Not exact matches

According to a report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, dangerous breeds include pit bulls - which are three times more likely to attack than German shepherds - the next most commonly reported aggressive breed.

If you think that's as it should be because pit bulls are bred to fight, or because their jaws exert more pressure than other dogs, or because they have aggressive temperaments, think again.

There is no breed of dog in American more abused, maligned, and misrepresented than the American Pit Bull Terrier.

My buddy said that a Cocker Spaniel would bite you quicker than a Pit Bull or Rottweiler would, i find that very... [Read more...] about Are Cocker Spaniels known to be a dog breed that bites?

I'm here to tell you, though, that a pit bull is no more likely to unpredictably attack than any other breed.

The results of the study showed that the pit bull dogs were no more aggressive than the other breeds.

There's been some recent debate about the inherent natures of pit bulls in particular, but again, there's no evidence to show that pit bulls are more likely to cause harm to humans than any other breed.

actually if u would take the time to look it up pit bulls passed the aggresion test with and 86 witch is great and better than most dog breeds and pit bull isnt a breed its a generic name for several breeds

Since adult pit bulls can take longer to place than other breeds, we look for foster homes that are patient, stable and realistic about what they're getting into.

The modern descendant of this rare dog breed is much larger and stronger than the original and resembles the American Pit Bull Terrier.

Dr. I Lerh Brisbin at the University of Georgia has said, «The few studies which have been conducted of the structure of the skulls, mandibles and teeth of pit bulls show that, in proportion to their size, their jaw structure and thus its inferred functional morphology, is not different than that of any breed of dog.

Reality also is that cities without effective breed - specific legislation to curtail pit bull breeding are continuing to impound more than a million pit bulls per year, and kill about 85 % of them, as they have throughout the first fifteen years of the 21st century.

Unfortunately many of the pit bulls and pit bull mixes you would come across in city shelters or similar locations, have been bred, kept and trained as fighting dogs, or were kept as guard dogs by drug dealers to be aggressive to any humans other than their owners.

The purpose - bred fighting breed cluster pit bulls represent, genetically programmed for impulsive aggression, can not be trained into reliable sociability, any more than greyhounds can be trained to adopt the running gait of a sled dog.

Animal control departments in at least 25 U.S. states report that pit bulls are biting more than all other dog breeds.

Since in many places pit bulls make up 30 - 50 % of the shelter population, and are less likely to be considered for placement than any other breed, guessing that 25 % of those dogs killed is a reasonable estimate.

It doesn \» t matter if: - their jaws don \» t lock - someone once called them nanny dogs - your dog has never bitten anyone - your small dog bites but your staffy doesn \» t - this type of dog doesn \» t have the strongest jaw - they are loyal to you - the type of staffy or pit bull that killed or maimed isn \» t the type you own or is a cross-breed What matters is that Staffy - type dogs kill and maim more than any other breeds.

The Pit Bull has a purebred registration history longer than most other breeds in existence.

The odds of a Pit Bull in Bexar County causing a bite were 5 times greater than the odds for all other breeds combined, at 4.9 to 1.

There is no evidence to show that Pit Bulls actually bite people more than any other breed.

Moreover, veterinarians commonly identify dogs as pit bulls — rather than one of the three recognized breeds — by their physical characteristics.

The chief dog warden of Lucas County testified that: (1) when pit bulls attack, they are more likely to inflict severe damage to their victim than other breeds of dogs; (2) pit bulls have killed more Ohioans than any other breed of dog; (3) Toledo police officers fire their weapons in the line of duty at pit bulls more often than they fire weapons at people and all other breeds of dogs combined; (4) pit bulls are frequently shot during drug raids because pit bulls are encountered more frequently in drug raids than any other dog breed....

BOB JOHNSTONE, Cincinnati, OH city attorney We have amassed what I consider an overwhelming amount of information that demonstrates to me that pit bulls are, by far, responsible for more fatal or serious attacks than any other breed.

In the three weeks following those two grisly June incidents in California, more than 300 pit bulls and pit bull crosses were turned in to the Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control Department, most of them by owners who no longer wanted the responsibility of keeping them, or who had simply become frightened of their own pet by the breed's reputation.

The purpose of a pit bull ban is to eradicate mauling injuries and deaths inflicted by pit bulls, the breed involved in more than half of all severe and mauling attacks.

His city's assertion that «pit bulls are more dangerous than other breeds of dog» has withstood legal challenges, he said.

The adoption failure rate for pit bulls 1 year or older is about 50 % per year — about 10 times higher than the failure rate for all other breed types combined.

The San Bernardino County ordinance said pit bull breeds account for about 20 percent of the dogs at animal shelters and are put down more often than any other breed.

Staffordshire and pit bull terriers kill and maim more people than any other breeds.

No way you can prove it was or it wasn't a pit bull, but more than likely that's what became our breed.»

The oft - quoted myth by pro-pit bull groups that pit bulls «do not bite more than other breeds» is categorically false.

With all that activity, American Pit Bull Terriers tend to sweat more often than any other dog breed.

More ppl are bitten by small dogs than big ones the problem is down to not being reported getting nipped of a small dog happens more but isn't reported larger dogs tend to leave or do more damage But this is the fault of the owner not knowing how to train a big dog u have to break the dog early then they see u as the alpha male then u can bend the dog to our will I've just had two dogs non pit bull taken from me by a copper who hasn't started shaving yet who said they look like pit bulls one was twelve week old the other two yr old they haven't stopped growing yet how the fuck can this nimrod have the ability to tell breeds are one thing or another b4 their full grown this is state sanctioned destruction of life

«The injuries these dogs inflict are more serious than other breeds because they go for the deep musculature and don't release; they hold and shake,» says Sheryl Blair of the Tufts Veterinary School, in North Grafton, Mass., which last year held a symposium entitled Animal Agression: Dog Bites and the Pit Bull Terrier.

SHERYL BLAIR, Tufts Veterinary School symposium — Animal Aggression: Dog Bites and the Pit Bull Terrier The injuries these dogs inflict are more serious than other breeds because they go for the deep musculature and don't release; they hold and shake.

These groups often assert that Pit Bulls are responsible for more bite - related fatalities than any other breed.

What's interesting though is the APBT and other pit bull type breeds are actually more related with those dogs than with terrier type breeds, so there definitely is some common history there.

Pit bulls have been a registered breed longer than most AKC breeds have been in existence.

In the recent cycle, the most likely outcome for adult dogs and puppies with the top breed labels was adoption, except for adult dogs labeled «Pit Bull,» which were slightly more likely to be redeemed by their owners than to be adopted.

However, when it comes to dog attacks, the probability of being attacked by a pit bull, and that attack being fatal, is lower than being attacked by other breeds of dogs.

So, it is impossible for the pit bull to have been developed from a breed younger than itself.

This bad reputation scenario has spread through the majority of the breeds of dogs from one time or another — at one point, Bloodhounds, than German Shepherds, Rottweilers, and now, unfortunately, the Pit Bull Terriers.

In closing, if you love the modern day American Pit Bull Terrier, than you should at least give respect to those that created the breed centuries ago, because it is from these lines that all modern day Pit Bulls are spawned.

Yes, there have been pit bull attacks, and in all honesty, there have been more fatalities with from pit bull attacks than from any other breed of dog.

Supporters also maintain that pit bulls are more dangerous than other breeds, and point to numerous serious and even deadly attacks on people by pit bulls.

The Pit Bull in fact has a lineage that goes back further than most other considered pure breeds in existence today.

Owners of safe breeds who insure with State Farm and the other companies covering pit bulls, in particular, are paying correspondingly higher premiums, if all other factors are equal, than they would if insuring with one of at least 13 major U.S. insurance groups that do not cover pit bulls.

It is important to realize when reading these numbers that the Pit Bull is the most popular breed in the United States and there are 6X times the number of Pit Bulls than the next closet popular breed.

Granted we have more pit bulls and pit mixes, and Labs and Lab mixes, than toy breeds passing through our foster homes, but we DO get small dogs.