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Pit Bulls: Bad to the Bone?

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The Importance of Reading Dog Behavior

A study looked at over 200 dog bite fatalities from across 10 years and found that 76% of the time the dogs that killed someone who were quote kept isolated from regular positive human interactions, unquote. One group of people that's really bad at looking for these warning signs is kids. Researchers think that maybe a lot of these bites are preventable if we teach kids better how to behave around dogs.

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