Sentences with phrase «dog bite fatalities for»

I stumbled upon the story by accident as I was researching dog bite fatalities for another article.

The CDC reported 14 dog bite fatalities for Huskies from 1979 - 96.

Not exact matches

My study of dog bite - related fatalities occurring over the past five decades has identified the poor ownership / management practices involved in the overwhelming majority of these incidents: owners obtaining dogs, and maintaining them as resident dogs outside of regular, positive human interaction, often for negative functions (i.e. guarding / protection, fighting, intimidation / status); owners failing to humanely contain, control and maintain their dogs (chained dogs, loose roaming dogs, cases of abuse / neglect); owners failing to knowledgably supervise interaction between children and dogs; and owners failing to spay or neuter dogs not used for competition, show, or in a responsible breeding program.

The Center for Disease Control has done extensive studies on the subject of dog bite fatalities and has found that there are very few cases that meet this profile, further fatalities can not be assigned to a single dog breed.

Following a thorough study of human fatalities resulting from dog bites, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) decided to strongly oppose BSL.

The following list is compiled from a dog bite fatality study done by the Center for Disease Control and the Humane Society of the United States, as well as an independent study conducted by Merritt Clifton, editor of Animal People.

For example, since 1965 - 2008, there have been 17 different breeds / types of dogs have been identified in connection with dog bite fatalities in Texas.

Kory Nelson, Assistant City Attorney for the Denver City Attorneyâ $ ™ s office is quoted, saying, â $ œThe fact we havenâ $ ™ t had fatal attacks in years indicates (the ban) may be working.â $ Mr. Nelsonâ $ ™ s remark is interesting in that since 1986 there have been no dog - bite fatalities in Denver during periods when the city enforced the ordinance; neither have there been in Portland, Oregon or Dallas, Texas, both of which had a dog - bite fatality in 1986.

The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) also commented on the study, stating, «In contrast to what has been reported in the news media, the data... can not be used to infer any breed - specific risk for dog bite fatalities.»

I mean if we are basing danger off of just fatalities, explain to me why it is so common place then to euthanize most dogs for biting people.

This doesn't negate the issue but does require that we recognize that a much larger number of dog breeds are responsible for these horrific bites / fatalities.

I'm not taking it extreme and claiming no Pit Bull type dogs have bitten or caused fatalities, so don't jump on me for that.

«Despite these (breed identification) limitations and concerns, the data indicate that Rottweilers and pit bull - type dogs accounted for 67 % of human DBRF (Dog Bite Related Fatalities) in the United States between 1997 and 1998.

Statistics I cited were taken from the Centers for Disease Control Study on Dog Bite fatalities - linked above.