Hello; Here is a link to one of the reports on the dog bite site. In this report they say that in a period from 2006 to 2008 pit bulls alone were responsible for 59% of all fatal dog attacks.
what about the other 41%?
Hello; You should check to verify but if I recall correctly pit bulls and rottweilers(sp?) accounted for around 78% of all fatal dog attacks in the reported period. That leaves 22% of the remaining fatal dog attacks to be spread out among what ever the other species were.
They also have a section that breaks down each fatal attack for individual years giving a table of the particulars. Some in 2011 and 2012 have happened in the state where I live, TN.
A fatal attack that caught my attention not long ago was not a pit bull. I do not recall the breed this moment. A family pet dog of several years that had been raised by the owners apparently walked over to a newborn just home from the hospital and bit into it's head. This is much to the theme of the current thread. Regardless of the state of the owners, responsible or not, a dog can suddenly just attack. It is not stuff made up to give dogs a bad name. It is the awful reality that people have to face when a trusted dog decides, for whatever reason, to attack leaving a loved one dead.