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Article: Dog bites up 50% over '05; pit bulls are chief offender: All pit bulls turned in to Animal Care and Control shelter are euthanized.
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- The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN)
- Article date:
- July 27, 2006
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Byline: Cindy Larson
Jul. 27--Dog bites are up more than 50 percent from last year -- with pit bulls accounting for 38 percent of all incidents, enough to concern Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control officials. Pit bulls also comprise 24.5 percent of the dogs entering the animal shelter. Peggy Bender, humane education specialist for Animal Care and Control, believes that's an indication pit bulls are becoming a fad. "It seems like the pit bull has grown in popularity. I can't say why." Bites to youths ages 11-17 increased by 76 percent between January and June compared with the same period in 2005. Shelter officials said August is traditionally when they ...
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