Double Amputee Killed by Dogs in Vicious Attack in South Carolina - Page 3

Actually Slamdunc, the breed is not relevent. I just did a speech for a class on why the breed of the dog should not be punished but the owners of the dogs. The bite statistics for fatalities in the United States from 2000-2010 included Pit Bulls, German Shepherds, Chows, YORKIES (Yes, Yorkshire Terriers, although it was only 1 death, it was still a death due to a bite, not a trip and fall, all were due to bites), Labs were high on the list, Daschunds, Jack Russell Terriers were on the list, Golden Retrievers, there were a total of 25-30 different breeds involved in fatalities in those 10 years. In one city in the United States, Labrador Retrievers were the top of the list, with a large number of attacks. Of course the mixed breeds are the highest in the bite statistics total. But still, a Yorkie did manage to kill someone (most likely a child). It is possible, even though the smaller breeds do not do as much damage typically. 

Labs are the most popular breed so was the statistic total bites or deaths or percentage bites or deaths by breed population total (as percent of breed population).  Labs are not #1 in bites per 1,000 Labs  I would guess but I bet Pitbulls are.  Also the cause of death is important if it included infections, etc.  A toy poodle or Chihuahua is often one of the biting-est dogs on the planet but not a threat to life or limb for an adult and even small children.  I'll take my chances with 4 Yorkies over 4 Pitbulls. 

2012 US dog bite fatalities.

http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2012.php

 

Same stats as I have seen Pit Bulls and their mixes are the majority of all deaths and about 80% of off property deaths (killing someone not on their property).  Total number of deaths reported and reported in news presentations has been up every year too!!

My aunt works for the Dorchester animal control here in South Carolina, they were the ones that picked the dogs up. I can talk to her and see if she knows what they really were :) and see if she knows more about the story. Though she hasn't told us anything yet, so she may not know. There's a bad habit around here for calling every stray dog a Pitbull or Pit mix, but there is also a LARGE amount of pitbulls owned and being bred like crazy in small, rather poor and unkept  "communities" such as this one where this man was mauled. These breed into every stray that comes around and they just mix and mix, but people still call them Pits. The last I heard, the 4th dog (the one that started the attack and was a stray from what I heard) was still running loose and people were trying to catch it, but that may be wrong.

I am a little confused.  There seems to be a news report with the wife of the victim, where the family, some who supposedly witnessed the attack, identified the dogs as pit bulls.  It later states the owner of the pit bulls was another family member.  Is this report incorrect? 
 

You can post charts and statistics 'til you're blue in the face--the fact is that in the current culture in the US, anything that's got a broad head and is of medium-size with a short coat gets called a 'pit bull' or 'pit mix'.  If it's a large dog with a broad head and a short coat, it usually gets called a Rottie mix.  If it's tan with a black blanket and a narrower head and longer muzzle and on the larger side, it gets called a German 'Shepard' [usually misspelled that way].  You will likely never hear of a pit bull or pit bull-type that is implicated in the death of a person which is owned by a responsible dog owner.  Responsible owners don't allow their dogs to run at large, let alone roam to the point of becoming a member of a neighborhood pack; they don't tie their dogs out where strangers can just wander on up to the dog; put simply, responsible dog owners don't place their dogs in danger.

Falkosmom, link to the story you're referring to, please?

I am sure anything is possible, and it could be a fake, but I have seen this video posted on a few other sites as well.  All one has to do is google it and there it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tX0H5rPkzM

Thanks, Falcosmom.  I wasn't questioning you, just hadn't come across anything of that nature when I did a web search last night.  After viewing the news clip, I'm really puzzled as to how some family members could witness the dogs pulling the old man out of the chair and trying to drag him into the woods, yet apparently did nothing to intervene...something in the milk ain't clean.   Perhaps that's one reason why the authorities are saying so little with regard to the dogs themselves--in any other case, we'd have already seen pictures and video of the three dogs that have been impounded as they sit in their cages or kennel runs at the local animal control facility.   This is going to be an interesting case...