The home secretary is seeking "urgent advice" about banning American XL Bully dogs as footage shows one of the animals attacking an 11-year-old girl and a man in Birmingham. Suella Braverman has said the animals are a "clear and lethal" danger after the video of the attack in Bordesley Green emerged on the social media platform TikTok. West Midlands Police are investigating after two men, who were bitten and left with injuries to their shoulders and arms, were taken to hospital to be treated for their injuries after the incident on Saturday.
I see West Nile encephalitis all the time in my hospital. Not terribly unusual to get diseases from mosquitos.
That’s not to say pit bull breeds are dangerous or not, but we often misidentify the greatest risks in this world.
But we have a choice to allow pitbulls as pets. We don’t have much of a choice about the existence of mosquitos.
We actually do, we can make the mosquitos that bite people extinct
Which would have far reaching consequences on other insectivores. Also, it’s not a foolproof solution we’ve created, the infertile male mosquitos will reduce the wild populations numbers, but likely not make them extinct.
Once the population dips too low it can’t come back easily, for several reasons.
But there are a lot of mosquitos, and the infertile males won’t fully displace the healthy male population, so it’s unlikely the population will ever dip too low to drive them to extinction.
Wait, does that mean no more mosquitos or can you simply have non-biting mosquitos? Because if the latter then what the fuck are we waiting for?
You missed the point. You’re basing your assumption on the idea that pit bulls are somehow inherently bad dogs kind of like society treats people of a certain color as if they are inherently criminals.
The CDC and Humane society are saying that’s an incorrect and poorly supported approach. That’s why they don’t support breed specific bans.
That’s not to say dog attacks don’t happen. Dogs of any breed can be aggressive. It depends on a lot of factors.
Here is an example of poodles being aggressive: https://nypost.com/2022/11/14/pack-of-10-poodles-attacks-california-beachgoer-and-her-elderly-corgi-service-dog/
And yet Pitbulls and pit mixes account for 85% of fatal dog attacks. Poodles account for 0%.
And studies have shown bad and neglectful owners only account for about 20% of dog attacks, so yeah, pitbulls suck as a breed.
You aren’t citing any studies. Even if you did cite a study, you won’t find one that isn’t based on news reports, and guess what? News reports are problematic because the media likes clickbait and fearmongers in order to get clicks and views, even as far back as the 1970s and 1980s. There is a documented history of the media misidentifying dog breeds, overreporting certain breed attacks, and underreporting others. That means the entire basis of your argument is not based on reality or truth because there is no reliable source. Your views are informed by media narrative that originated in the 1970s and 1980s and that has reinforced itself through folks like you repeating platitudes and anecdotes. It’s the same type of thinking that enforces racism and racist views. Actually, don’t you find it interesting that the same dogs preferred by people of color were painted as vicious beasts by the media? It’s almost like that was intentional.
Myself, I’d rather listen to experts like those at the CDC or the Humane Society, which dismiss this type of thinking.
I don’t feel like digging up the study I read a little while back, it was reviewed paper based on hospitalization data for dog bites, and I honestly don’t give a shit if you believe me because nothing will change your mind about that shit breed.
And pits contaminate every breed they touch, pit mutts are violent unpredictable shits too, and are the result of most of the non-pit attacks out there.
And fuck off with the racist claims, everyone I know who owns a pit is white as fuck.
You have to look at risk, cost, and benefits on all these policy decisions. At some point your efforts are better spent elsewhere.
How much does it cost to stop breeding pitbulls?
Not going to happen without national policies in place.
yes, but do they die from it? i’ve seen more stories of people dying from pit bulls
https://www.cdc.gov/westnile/index.html