• dublet@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wednesday: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12522011/Shocking-moment-dog-mauls-boy-football.html

    That one is a Staffordshire bull terrier, not the breed being banned for these attacks.

    That’s 3 in 6 days.

    You didn’t actually respond to my comment about a request for statistics, rather posting some individual stories. So since I posted I found this article from the BBC. It states that:

    In 2022, there were 8,819 admissions to hospital in England with dog bites.

    So that’s actually 24 dog attacks per day, so the problem is even more severe than you suggest, though the claim of only “some survive” then is misleading at best.

    In 2022, there were 482 sentences given to owners of dangerously out of control dogs which resulted in an injury to a person in public

    Out of all those hospital admissions, there’s 24 attacks a day being deemed criminal by our justice system. That data suggests that this problem is by no means limited to the XL bully breed.

    • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That one is a Staffordshire bull terrier, not the breed being banned for these attacks.

      Two attacks in six days rather than three then. Does this somehow make it acceptable?

      They’re a dangerous breed and should be banned. No amount of pedantry or weasel words can change that.