Originally Posted by maewest

Also complicating those statistics - "pit bull" isn't an actual breed so this bucket of stats casts a wider net than say, bites attributed to golden retrievers. a pit bull may be a rottweiler crossed with a poodle, staffordshire crossed with a labrador, bulldog crossed with jack russell etc etc etc as long as the dog has outward characteristics like big head/chest etc that classify it as a 'pit type breed'