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I've been involved in many legal cases involving fatal dog attacks, and, certainly, it's my impression that these are generally cases where everyone is to blame.
Banning certain breeds would not only make life less fraught for neighbours - especially those with young children - it would end the horrifying spectre of fatal dog attacks.
I don't think I even saw my first pit-bull case until the middle to late nineteen-eighties, and I didn't start seeing Rottweilers until I'd already looked at a few hundred fatal dog attacks.
When I first started looking at fatal dog attacks, they largely involved dogs like German shepherds and shepherd mixes and St. Bernards — which is probably why Stephen King chose to make Cujo a St. Bernard, not a pit bull.
84.4% of fatal dog attacks involve dogs that were not spayed or neutered.
This factors into 76.2% of fatal dog attacks: "dogs kept isolated from regular positive human interactions versus family dogs".
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"A fatal dog attack is not just a dog bite by a big or aggressive dog," Lockwood went on.
"Dogs are trained to recognize friends," he said, going on to mention a recent fatal dog attack, an apparent reference to the killing of a woman in San Francisco.
They were followed by an ongoing surge in fatal koala injuries from vehicles and dog attacks that has the RSPCA fearing for their long-term survival in the region.
Dog attacks can be fatal.
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