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Originally Posted by yukidomari
This doesn't make sense because 80% of bites from family dogs doesn't mean all 80% is from German Shepherd Dog as not 100% of German families keep GSDs..
Also, nobody reports dog bites from small dogs, everyone knows that bite statistics aren't accurate due to reporting rates and trends.
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It also shows, that you have to be able to read statistics to use them, or as a German talk says "don´t trust any statistic you haven´t faked yourself". German Shepherds are high in German Bite Statistics but it isn´t showed if they live in the house (what still isn´t that usual in most working GSH, they normally live outside in a kennel), in many if a dog or a human was bitten (GSD are often involved in dog bitings due to their bad socialisation with breeders and owners) and of course you are right, how high the percentage is looking at the whole number of dogs of this breed and especially the main number of dog bites from small dogs isn´t reported - otherwise Miniature Pinschers would be on number one I suppose.
And I fully agree with you, the GSDs that have been used in founding the breed have been totally different from the working line GSD we see here today due to horrible breeding selection in the past decades here. What is the reason that they more and more disappear out of police work after being THE police dogs in former times.
US-bite statitstics are the same and have been also used wrongly in this kind of discussion before. In the US-statistics the Pitbull-Staff group is number one and hybrids are not. No wonder if you know about statistics you will know that 1. bite statistics are not really reliable out of the reasons we stated before, 2. Pits and Hybrids are mostly kept by totally different people and under totally different circumstances and 3. many Hybrids are officially sleddog-crossings to avoid problems. So you can´t use them to proofe neither that they are dangerous, nor that they are not, without having a closer look on the circumstances.
All in all bite statistics are normally not usefull to judge about breeds, if you don´t take other things into consideration.
Ina