question about camping with a pittbull

Ed_Gee wrote:
Based on data regarding dog attacks in the U.S. and Canada between 1982 and 2014, the dogs most likely to bite humans are:

Pit bulls.
Rottweilers.
Pit bull mixes.
German shepherds.
Bullmastiffs.
Wolf hybrids.
Huskies.
Akitas.

The problem with this list is that it doesn't take into consideration the "purpose" of the dog breed.

Rotties and shepherds and mastiffs are used as guard dogs. They are left outside in a yard with little interaction in order to "protect" the property from tresspass. When someone does tresspass, the dog does what it was trained to do - attack. So of course they will have a higher rate of reported attacks.

Wolf hybrids are wild animals and are not domesticated dogs.

Huskies are bred to be very independent and are smarter than pretty much any person.

Pitbulls are not a breed in and of themselves. They are a product of several different breeds that have been trained and bred to "fight" bulls or other dogs.

Akitas are very stubborn and big. They require a knowledgeable owner.

All of these breeds have been "adopted" by problem owners who believe their dog represents their manhood. As such, they have bred and raised a select population of these breeds to be more aggressive and problematic than the standard. This has warped the records.

In addition, small dogs are much more likely to bite (there was a study done years ago that reported that springer spaniels were the number one biter of all dogs - they believe it was due to the ears, kids love to pull on the ears and the dogs tend to have ear infections, etc., so the pulling hurts and they respond by biting) but they are rarely left outside to protect property so the opportunity to bite someone outside the family and friends is much more reduced so reporting is less likely to occur.