Sentences with phrase «than pit bulls in»

Not exact matches

The ring in the cramped garage behind the Carbajal house on East Fillmore Street is only 10 feet across and is reached by adroitly maneuvering past the family's pit bulls, Nueve and Puma, who seem far more menacing than any of the boxing Carbajals.

In fact a better manager than McLeish would have spotted that his pit bull had lost his head and would have pulled him off.

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.

In fact, skipping starch may make you moodier than a pit bull.

With the exception of an intriguing scene in which an eager crowd places bets on a dogfight between a pit bull and a smaller MTR, the humans seldom interact directly with these enormous E.T.s. Just imagine how dull «Jurassic Park» would be if the dinosaurs were seen exclusively in the far distance, as the paleontological safari intended, rather than endangering the characters in close proximity.

The reason that your insurance will increase in cost is because pit bulls have a reputation for being aggressive dogs and, as a result, are seen as having a greater insurance risk than other dogs.

And what's worse, is that they tend to stay in shelters longer than any other animal population because of the aforementioned restrictions that make so it hard, if not impossible, to have an American Pit Bull Terrier as a companion animal.

In Mehtala's 11 years of experience, he has worked with more than 100 Pit Bulls, many of them just like Paddy.

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

Some pit bulls are more reactive to new dogs, but they are less reactive than miniature schnauzers according to Brian Hare an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University in North Carolina and a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, which is a division of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.

Pocket pit bulls are shorter and have a less graceful stride than their taller relatives; they do not exceed 17 inches in height at the withers.

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.

In terms of raw strength and power, the pit bull, with his low center of gravity and high muscle density, may prove to be stronger and more athletic than his larger Asian counterpart.

Pit bulls are shorter and typically less than half the weight of the Japanese tosas, weighing in around 77 pounds.

In terms of public safety we'd save more children's lives by banning 4WDs than by banning Pit Bulls.

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.

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.

More than 120 of the seized pit bulls have been placed in foster homes, but about that many still remain in the temporary shelter.

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.

And then when we look at our data even further, of the kids that were most severely injured, those that were in the hospital for more than 8 days or had life threatening injuries, 100 % of those were pit bulls.

Despite its record licencing rate of 90 % — four times higher than the average in other cities — Calgary area pit bull attacks have more than tripled: from 58 in 2009 to 201 in 2012.

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.

When one does actual research on the subject, it is revealed that pit bulls were never very popular in the past: http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/06/03/howpopularwerepitBulls03.06.htm Here's an article written in 1911 by a pit bull breeder urging people to see the pit bull as more than killing machines: http://books.google.com/books?id=T57mAAAAMAAJ&vq=%22A%20Good%20Word%20for%20the%20Pit%20Dog%22&pg=RA3-PA13#v=onepage&q&f=false Why would «America's favorite dog» need such articles written about it?

The caption on the poster was a remark by the pit bull, who appeared in the middle, slightly larger than the rest: «I'm neutral, BUT — Not Afraid of any of them.»

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....

Now, more than 150 years later, in an age of computers and biogenetics, the blood of those miners courses through the veins of citizens in these 50 states, and the blood of the bull - and - terrier dog's descendants continues to be splattered against the sides of pits.

In Calgary, by Bill Bruce's own admission and documentation, pit bulls lead the serious bite count with 13 % of the city's serious bites attributable to pit bulls, yet pit bulls account for less than 1 % of the city's dogs.

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 reputatioIn 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 reputatioin 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 reputatioin 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.

Pit bulls are not more popular than other dogs, but they represent up to 80 % of abandoned and stray dogs in shelters at any given time.

Additionally, I could not locate a single case in the US of a person above the age of 6 - years - old who was ever dismembered, eviscerated or scalped by any dog other than a pit bull - type.

Typically there are minor costs involved in adopting a purebred Pit Bull from a Pit friendly rescue or shelter but they tend to be less than standard purchase costs.

The pit bulls involved in these cases were identified as pit bulls or pit bull - mixes by animal control, law enforcement, owners, victims, neighbors, etc. and they know more about what the dogs were than YOU do because YOU weren \» t there.

«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.

The Colorado Dog Fanciers trial court made this clear, stating that, while it could not be proven that pit bulls bite more than other dogs, there was «credible evidence that Pit Bull dog attacks are more severe and more likely to result in fatalities.&raqpit bulls bite more than other dogs, there was «credible evidence that Pit Bull dog attacks are more severe and more likely to result in fatalities.&raqPit Bull dog attacks are more severe and more likely to result in fatalities.»

There are more reported dog bites in the US from Labrador Retrievers than from Pit Bulls.

On the other hand, a dog that is raised in an abusive or unstable environment will certainly be more inclined to display acts of aggression; this does not mean that a Pit Bull is more like to «turn» on their guardian more than any other dog, however.

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

Our fleet of mobile clinics has sterilized more than 102,000 animals — including thousands of feral cats and pit bulls — for free or almost nothing in the last 10 years, preventing tens of thousands of animals from being born into a world already bursting at the seams with unwanted and homeless animals.

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.

More than 500 Montreal pit bull owners have received letters ordering them to either find their dogs new homes outside of the city or surrender them to animal shelters in the next 4 weeks.

If your pit bull weighs at least 2 kilograms but not more than 45 kilograms, then the RER is equivalent to 30 multiplied by your dog's weight in kilograms then added with 70.

This is more than likely the number one myth that you will hear about pit bulls in the world today.

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.

The recent cycle saw nearly 200 more dogs labeled «Pit Bull» adopted than in the prior cycle, a 44 % increase, notwithstanding lighter intake.

More than 100 pit bulls were brought to shelters in the Los Angeles area after an animal control officer there was badly bitten by a pit bull, said Barbara Cassidy, director of animal sheltering and control at the Humane Society of the United States.

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