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https://www.avma.org/KB/Resources/LiteratureReviews/Pages/The-Role-of-Breed-in-Dog-Bite-Risk-and-Prevention.aspx

when it comes to fatalities caused by pit bulls, the breed identifications are often not accurate. - Centre for Disease Control.

http://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/abs/10.2460/javma.243.12.1726

in over 80 percent of those cases there were four or more significant factors related to the care and control of the dog. - Centre for Disease Control.

There are many dog types that are more aggressive than pit bulls.

https://atts.org/

In yearly tests of over 240 dog breeds by the American Temperament Testing Society (ATTS), pit bull type dogs consistently achieve a passing rate that's as good or better than the other most popular breeds. In the ATTS test, a dog is put through a series of confrontational situations. Any sign of panic or unprovoked aggression leads to failure of the test.

https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/literature-reviews/dog-bite-risk-and-prevention-role-breed

Pit Bull Types
Owners of pit bull-type dogs deal with a strong breed stigma,44 however controlled studies have not identified this breed group as disproportionately dangerous. The pit bull type is particularly ambiguous as a "breed" encompassing a range of pedigree breeds, informal types and appearances that cannot be reliably identified. Visual determination of dog breed is known to not always be reliable.45 And witnesses may be predisposed to assume that a vicious dog is of this type.
It should also be considered that the incidence of pit bull-type dogs' involvement in severe and fatal attacks may represent high prevalence in neighborhoods that present high risk to the young children who are the most common victim of severe or fatal attacks. And as owners of stigmatized breeds are more likely to have involvement in criminal and/or violent acts46breed correlations may have the owner's behavior as the underlying causal factor.

https://spca.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/A_MacNeil-Allcock_-_Aggression__behaviour_and_animal_care_among_pit_bulls.pdf

The study provided no evidence of greater aggression or poorer care among adopted pit bulls compared to dogs of other breeds.

https://www.livescience.com/27145-are-pit-bulls-dangerous.html

there's considerable evidence that owners of pit bulls and other high-risk dogs are themselves high-risk people.
A 2006 study from the Journal of Interpersonal Violence revealed that owners of vicious dogswere significantly more likely to have criminal convictions for aggressive crimes, drugs, alcohol, domestic violence, crimes involving children and firearms.
These findings were confirmed in a 2009 report published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences. The authors of that report wrote, "Vicious dog owners reported significantly more criminal behaviors than other dog owners," and they were ranked "higher in sensation seeking and primary psychopathy."
And a 2011 study, also in the Journal of Forensic Sciences, found that "vicious dog owners reported significantly higher criminal thinking, entitlement, sentimentality and super-optimism tendencies. Vicious dog owners were arrested, engaged in physical fights, and used marijuana significantly more than other dog owners."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24299544/

Pitbulls are no more likely to be aggressive than the average dog, and are erroneously reported as being the the dog that bit someone a third of the time.


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