Shelter Animals Count, a national database, estimates that the U.S. shelter population grew by nearly a quarter-million animals in 2023.
    • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
      196·
      7 months ago

      This has been said so many times it’s boring: chihuahua with a bad owner never killed anyone.
      Also: would you support mandatory background checks, permits and training for pit bull owners? To make sure that they only go to good owners…

      • Ascrod@midwest.socialEnglish
        113·
        7 months ago

        I support educating pet owners, and regulating “puppy mills”.

        Dogs aren’t guns.

        • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
          75·
          7 months ago

          Educating and regulating how? Mandatory certificates for pit bull owners? What regulations of “puppy mills” would stop pit bulls from killing people?

    • rab@lemmy.ca
      95·
      7 months ago

      That’s not what the data shows though. The vast majority of dog attacks are by pitbulls.

      • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        57·
        7 months ago

        Except the major source everyone cites is one psycho who composes his data exclusively by going through news reports of dog attacks and determining it was a pit bull if any news source called it a pit bull rather than any scientific methodology whatsoever

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
          2·
          7 months ago

          Super reliable! You know, the same news sources that call every 1-hand bang-bang-thingy a “glock”, a wooden two-hand bang-bang-thingy an AK-47, and a black shovel an Assault-Rifle-15-mall-sweeping-military-style-bump-stock-war-machine assault weapon.

          Yeah I’m sure they’re great at differentiating dog breeds too! XD

        • rab@lemmy.ca
          45·
          7 months ago

          What reason would someone have to do that though? Probably was attacked by a pitbull in the past lol