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Originally posted by: BigDH01
Originally posted by: ryan256
Originally posted by: BigDH01
Originally posted by: ryan256
Originally posted by: BigDH01
Originally posted by: ryan256
And how common are pit bulls as opposed to bears? How often do people come on contact with pit bulls VS bears. How many non-zoo bears are kept in suburbs or inner cities?
Lets look at your figures:
For pit bulls- 104 deaths : 25 years = 4.16 deaths per year
For bears - 102 deaths : 107 years = 0.95 deaths per year
So the ratio of deaths caused by pit bulls VS bears is 4.36:1 per year. I'm willing to bet the contact rate of humans between pit bulls VS bears is somewhere around 1:100+ per year. An animal which has +100x more contact with humans causes 4.36x more deaths. Hmmm.......
Like I said before, in 1900 there was a great deal more contact. For non-city dwellers there is contact up to this day. I've lived next door to a pit bull that bit my mother. I lived in Colorado and had a black bear come and go through the trash every night. I used to walk home late at night in Colorado. Number of pit bull attacks for me = 1. Number of bear attacks for me = 0.
Yes but those statistics take into account the entire country. Not just your state. I've never seen a bear outside a zoo. The only member of my family that has was my father when he was stationed in Alaska. Granted the bear population is probably high in Colorado. Its drastically lower in many other states. And even though contact still exists it is no where near the magnitude of pit bull contact.
Believe it or not, bears (even grizzly bears) used to be common throughout almost the entire nation. Black bears are still common throughout the northeast, an area were you'd think bears would be rare.
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Haha, which is why I said that pit bulls have killed more people in the last 25 years than bears (combined) have killed in the last 107. It was meant to illustrate a point about the wild nature of dogs. Domestic, but wild. As in, not always predictable.
you still don't understand the problem with these numbers? your trying to compare numbers of attacks between 2 species, in which case one of the species most likely is in contact with humans 100x more than the other...does this make sense yet?
are you a fan of physics too? I bet you think the plane can't take off....