Sentences with phrase «than pit bulls of»

These dogs are stronger than pit bulls of course, but pit bull is strongest dog for his size.

Not exact matches

To dog - eat - dog entrepreneurs like Kevin O'Leary, any startup trying to do more than serve customers and generate profits is being run by labradoodles playing among the pit bulls of commerce.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A little more than one hundred years after his fateful encounter with a young soldier on the streets of New Haven, Connecticut, the animated film Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero tells the tale of Stubby, a brindle and white pit bull - type dog, and Robert Conroy, the soldier who found him scrounging for scraps near a military camp.

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.

On top of that, a study last year put out by by Arizona State University found that identifying a dog as a pit bull leads to that dog staying at the shelter three times longer than dogs who look the same but are called Labs or border collies instead.

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.

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.

And no type of dog is more misunderstood than Pit Bulls.

Currently, with more than 70 % of the U.S. dog population sterilized, we are averaging about 35 dog attack fatalities per year, 30 of them by pit bulls.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.»

Many purebred Pit Bulls have had their unregistered records kept meticulously within their family for generations, others have fallen out of the process simply due to breeders not following through with registrations and other Pit Bulls have been targeted and excluded from registration by some registries for no other reason than their coat or eye color.

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....

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The majority of the pit bulls recover from their fights, which routinely last more than an hour and sometimes as long as three hours, and live to fight again.

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.

IF the father hates all pit bulls than he is a moron who deserves every bit of scorn he receives.

The fact of the matter is that pit bulls are no more likely than your toy poodle to attack a human or another dog.

Pit bulls make up less than 5 percent of the American dog population.

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.