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It is the same with dogs. The "reactive" dogs are just aggressive repetitive offenders, my guess around 10%. My hobby is to count dog attacks in public park, some dogs attack 50 times a week! Usually other dogs, but sometimes people, mostly children!

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How could a single dog attack 50 times a week including children? A single attack of a child (bites drawing blood) is usually enough to get the dog put down.

Or are you defining an attack as barking and snarling without an actual bite?

Where did you get this definition of an attack? If I slap or kick someone, it is not an attack, because there is no blood? And if I pull out knife on someone, it is not an attack, because "it was just a threat"?!

Dictionary definition is: an aggressive and violent act against a person or place

Not just a bite, but scratches, even jumping. Not everyone wants to get their shit spread all over them!

Edit: If you go with legal definition of an attack, we should include legal definitions of battery, harassment, assault, sexual harassment...

Even blackmail or abduction would fit, "do not ran, or my dog will attack you"!

Where did you get this definition of an attack?

Many state laws and local ordinances use that very definition as described by GP.

I don’t know if you live in the US, but you would get laughed at if a dog barked at you and you described it as “I was attacked by a dog”.

A “dog attack” means something specific and it’s not the generic definition of an attack.

“More than one successive bite is often called a dog attack,“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_bite

In south Dallas there use to be packs of roaming dogs leftover from fighting rings and other bad owners. They would kill anything they could catch. The city never did anything until the dogs dragged an 8 year old into an alley and killed him. After that, the city begrudgingly started picking up strays. I’ve been attacked twice walking my dogs and the city and police do nothing. Like literally say “we’re not going to do anything“ and hang up.

…some dogs attack 50 times a week!

A single dog, seven attacks per day in a week? I’m extremely skeptical. That, or put your spreadsheet down and call animal control.

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