Personal Injury Law

Pit Bull, Rottweiler, and Wolf Hybrid Dog Bites are Still Rampant in San Diego

By Ross Jurewitz

Just take one look at the website DogsBite.org and you will be bombarded with stories about Pit Bull, Rottweiler, and Wolf Hybrid attacks. Just recently, in Texas, two adults got their eyes ripped out by pit bulls in a viscous dog attack.

Many times these dog attacks can be pretty gruesome and one of the scary things is that these attacks happen just as often on both adults and children. The combination of the three breeds amount to

* 77 percent of attacks that cause bodily harm
* 73 percent of dog attacks on children
* 83 percent of attacks on adults
* 70 percent of attacks that result in fatalities
* 77 percent that result in maiming

It is a myth that, in California, a dog owner is only responsible for his dog's actions if the owner was negligent or irresponsible. In fact, California's dog bite statute holds owners nearly "strictly liable"--meaning responsible even though they may have acted carefully--for their dog's actions so long as the victim was legally allowed to be where the dog bite occurred (in other words, not a burglar, etc.).

Full post as published by San Diego Injury Lawyer Blog on February 27, 2009 (boomark / email).