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Lee Duna to News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

Animal shelters overflow as Americans dump 'pandemic puppies' in droves. They're too broke to keep their dogs

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Animal shelters overflow as Americans dump 'pandemic puppies' in droves. They're too broke to keep their dogs

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Lee Duna to News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago
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Shelter Animals Count, a national database, estimates that the U.S. shelter population grew by nearly a quarter-million animals in 2023.
  • @OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
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    Put bulls are not an objective bad for society. They’re not ruthless killing machines. They’re not even more aggressive than other dogs.

    • @AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world
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      Arguably not more aggressive, but definitely more damaging and lethal.

    • @newguy208@lemmy.world
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      Do you perhaps know what the word “pit” in the name pitbull stands for?

    • @ExLisper@linux.community
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      Do they do anything that other dogs can’t do? Besides killing people. What’s the benefit of having pit bulls?

    • @derf82@lemmy.world
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      But they are for more capable of killing/maiming and kill more often than other breeds.

      • @michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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        Any large breed dog is objectively more capable of killing a human. Pit bulls are just 20% of the US dog population and rottweilers are 2%.

        • @derf82@lemmy.world
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          Yet it’s still almost never a Great Dane, Bernese, St Bernard, Mastiff, or a Newfoundland. Pitbulls are 20% of dogs, yet [this study found they make up 53% of dog bite injuries requiring ER treatment.]) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34100808/)

          The fact is, they are disproportionally more likely to case injury or death.

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