Fatal dog attacks in the United States

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Fatal dog attacks in the United States are a small percentage of the relatively common occurrences of dog bites. There are from 4.5–4.7 million Americans (2%) bitten by dogs every year, and according to the CDC, death occurs in about 0.0002% of these 2%.

The list of dog-attack fatalities in this article begins with a news report from the year 1901. As the list gets nearer to the present, it becomes more complete with respect to media reports and existing studies by the University of Texas and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While the list in this article is not meant to be exhaustive nor conclusive, it does try to include data from as many valid news reports as possible. Care has been and should continue to be taken to include valid and verifiable information in the list. While this information includes the category of dog involved, including specific breeds where possible, the fact that a dog has been identified in the media as a particular breed does not constitute proof of ancestry.

The tables that follow this list of dog-attack fatalities summarize the data from the list to provide useful information about both "Dog bite-related fatalities in the US by age group of victim(s)" and "Dog bite-related fatalities in the United States by category of dog(s) involved". In addition to the main list, it is also important to ensure the continued accuracy of these two tables.

Existing studies

There are a limited number of studies concerning the number of human deaths caused by dogs in the United States, and the number of attributed fatalities is difficult to validate or cross-compare with other study results because:

• studies dependent on surveying news reports may not find all the relevant news items
• different studies use different data collection methodologies and evaluation criteria
• breed identification requires a subjective evaluation based on observation of outward physical attributes against imprecise breed standards.

University of Texas Study: 1966-1980

A study conducted at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School identified fatal dog bites during the period 1966-1980. They identified 74 incidents from newspapers and the medical literature. They found that the most (23) fatalities occurred in infants under 1 year old, and in most cases the dog was owned by the victim's family. In only 3 of the incidents was the dog reported to have been provoked by kicking, hitting, or having stones thrown at it. However, several incidents involved a child attempting to pet or hug the dog.

In 6 of the incidents, there was no information available about the breed of dogs involved. Of the remaining 68 fatalities, many involved large and powerful molosser breeds: eight Saint Bernards, six Bull terriers, six Great Danes, as well as two attacks by Boxers and one by a Rottweiler. In contrast to the time period covered by the CDC study, which found pit bulls and Rottweilers to be the most commonly involved breed in such attacks during that time period, this study found no fatal pit bull attacks in the US during its time period. However, the Bull terrier, a fighting breed and dolicocephalic dog with an elongated stop-free skull, is one of the several breeds sometimes called a "pit bull."

Ancient and spitz breeds also committed a singificant minority of the attacks. These were mostly sled dog breeds (nine Husky breeds and five were Malamutes), but there was also one Chow Chow and one Basenji.

However, by far the most common specific single breed involved in fatal attacks (sixteen) was the German Shepherd Dog, which, like the two Doberman Pinschers also listed, is a product of an intensive documented breeding program involving quite unrelated canine bloodlines to create a superior working dog. There were also two identified only as collies, although the breed was not specified.

There were multiple retriever attacks, including three Goldens and one Labrador, and there were two fatal attacks by very small breeds: a Dachsund, which is a very small scenthound bred to work as a terrier, and one Yorkshire Terrier, which is among the smallest of all dogs. Finally, in ten of the attacks, the dogs were only described as mixed breed.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: 1979-1998

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published in 2000 a study on dog bite-related fatalities (DBRF) that covered the years 1979-1998. The reported concluded that relying on media coverage of dog-bite-related fatalities presents a biased view of the dogs involved. They stated that media reports are likely to only cover about 74% of the actual incidents and that dog attacks involving certain breeds may be more likely to receive media coverage. They also reported that since breed identification is difficult and subjective, attacks may be more likely to be "ascribed to breeds with a reputation for aggression."

The study found reports of 327 people killed by dogs over the 20-year period. Some breed information was available for 238 (73%) of the fatalities. Of 227 incidents with relevant data, 133 (58%) were unrestained dogs and on the owners property; 55(24%) were loose off the owners' property; 38 (17%) were restrained dogs on their owners’ property; and only one (>1%) was restrained off the owners' property.

The study found that powerful molossers were responsible for most attacks; Pit bulls and Rottweilers alone comprised the majority, but there were also several Bullmastiffs, Boxers, Bull Terriers, Great Danes, St. Bernards, a Rhodesian Ridgeback, a bulldog, and a Newfoundland.

Working dogs, however, were also frequently implicated, mostly German Shepherds and Doberman Pinschers, but there were also several herders, including Australian shepherds and Collies, and one identified only as a “sheepdog”.

Spitz and Primitive dogs comprised a substantial minority, including multiple Chow Chows; native Japanese dogs (mostly Akita Inus); and sled dogs types: Huskies, Malamutes and others. One incident involved a Basenji.

Wolf-dog hybrids killed fourteen people during the study period, and dogs identified only as “mixed breeds” or "unknown" killed fifteen.

Fatal attacks by retrievers rarely but somewhat regularly occurred, including several Labrador Retrievers and a Chesapeake Bay Retriever.

There were also comparatively small number of fatal hound attacks (including a Coonhound and two Dachshunds) and terrier attacks (including two of the smallest ratters: a West Highland White Terrier and a Yorkshire Terrier, which is among the smallest of all dogs). The study also mentioned one fatal attack by a cocker spaniel.

Media reports of fatal dog attacks in the United States

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

This list of fatal dog attacks in the United States reported by the news media supplements those compiled from scholarly papers.

What is included in this list?

• This list is not meant to be exhaustive, as news reports about other attacks have not yet been found and included. Furthermore, there may have been fatal dog attacks during these years that were not reported in the news. For example, the 2012 Dixie Jennings attack was only reported by the media several days after the incident, when local residents heard rumors and asked the media to report on the incident. Similarly, the 2001 William Kirsch fatal attack is only known from a brief mention in an article about a different attack.
• This list is not meant to be conclusive. News reports or summaries may contain errors or omissions, not all information in the reports may be complete or correct, not all reports contain enough information to determine what actually happened, and errors may have been made in selecting or transferring information from the sources into the articles.
• Not all attacks listed here were determined by medical authorities to be the primary cause of death. For example, Diane Jansen suffered a hemorrhagic stroke when attacked by a dog. The Medical Examiner determined the stroke to be the primary cause of death, but listed heart disease and dog bite as contributing factors.
• The "Category of Dog" column reports the breed, group, type, or other dog descriptions found in the news media.
  • In some cases this is a specific dog breed. However, even when a single breed is listed, the dog may not have been a purebred individual of that breed. For example, an author of the CDC study summarized above found that any medium-sized black and tan animal was likely to be recorded as a German shepherd.
  • Some terms, such as "Husky", "Pit Bull", or "Retriever" refer to multiple breeds of a single bloodline.
  • Some terms, such as "sled dog" or "sheepdog" refer to what the dog was bred or trained to do.
  • The construction "(breed)-mix", as in "retriever-mix", may refer to a mix of breeds of one type, or a mixed dog that shows characteristics of one breed more clearly.
  • The term "Pit Bull" may refer to a dog which is purebred American Staffordshire Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, American Pit Bull Terrier, or another breed of the same general type. It may also refer to a dog which is a mix of Pit Bull breeds, a mix of Pit Bull and other dogs, or—erroneously—a mix of similar breeds (e.g. American bulldog, Boxer), especially if pit-bull morphology predominates.
  • The term "mixed breed" may refer to a dog which is literally a mix of breeds, or unbred mongrels whose ancestors have never been bred by humans.
  • The term "stray dog" may refer to one which has literally strayed from its owners, or to feral dogs which have never had an owner.

Fatalities reported in 1901

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1901.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
March 17	Fox terrier	Carrie Cobus	38 years	The dog attacked its owner while she was having an epileptic seizure. A neighbor tried to beat the dog away with a poker. It then attacked him and Carrie Cobus's mother.

Fatalities reported in 1936

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1936.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
February 7	Mongrel	Maxwell Breeze	14 years	The dog dragged him under water and killed him by drowning.

Fatalities reported in 1945

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1945.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
February 7	Staffordshire bull terrier	Marguerite Derdenger	21 months	The family's dog was said to have attacked the child out of jealousy.

Fatalities reported in 1947

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1947.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
February 7	German Shepherd Dog	Walter Momer Jr.	4 years	The boy was killed while sledding. An article reported that the Philadelphia boy was "torn and mangled." It went on to say that someone is killed by a German Shepherd Dog "almost every day" in the United States.

Fatalities reported in 1948

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1948.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
February 8	German Shepherd Dog	Baby Girl, surname: May	~1 month	The girl was dragged from her bassinet and killed. The girl's father said that the had never been viscous, but was jealous of his other child.

Fatalities reported in 1950

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1950.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
March	Siberian husky	Donald A. Boucher	5 years	The dog was chained at the time of the attack.

Fatalities reported in 1955

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1955.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
August	Pack of dogs	Unknown boy	21 months	No details available about this attack in Anchorage, Alaska.

Fatalities reported in 1958

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1958.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
November 24	German shepherd	Michael Kaminski	3 years	The dog was 6-month-old and had been acquired by the boy's family two weeks prior to the attack. The family said the dog had not shown any aggression previous aggression.

Fatalities reported in 1959

News organizations reported at least 2 fatal dog attacks in the United States in 1959.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
April 5	Pack of stray dogs	Unknown woman	58 years	She was knocked down and mauled by a pack of dogs. No other details available.
May	Pack of stray dogs	Mark Draper	2.5 years	A neighbor found the pack attacking the child. Afterwards, a group of 100-150 people armed with guns and clubs searched the area and killed 15 dogs and wounded or captured 3 more.

Fatalities reported in 1965

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1965.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
March	Mongrel	Vincent Scardina	22 months	Boy was killed after wandering into the backyard where his father's dog was kept.
November	Mongrel	Louis Rasmussen	60 years	The dog had attacked the woman twice prior to the fatal attack. One month before the fatal attack, an attack had required 2 weeks of hospitalization.

Fatalities reported in 1966

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1966.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
August	Great Danes (3)	Sharon K. Sparks	5 years	During the attack, a 6-year-old boy was also seriously injured. The dogs had escaped from their kennel earlier the day before.

Fatalities reported in 1967

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1967.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
December	German shepherd (3 or 4 dogs)	Gene Anthony Goodman	5 years	The attack occurred behind the boy's home and involved at least two dogs he had played with before.
December	German shepherd (3 or 4 dogs)	Kenneth Goodman	4 years	Killed in the same attack as his brother.

Fatalities reported in 1974

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1974.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
April	Saint Bernard	Lawrence Calemmo	6 years	The boy was attacked in a neighbor's back yard by the stray Saint Bernard.
June	Saint Bernard	Walter Schell	70 years	The man was working in his backyard when the dog ran in and attacked.

Fatalities reported in 1977

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1977.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
April	Saint Bernard and Labrador Retriever-Shepherd mix and third dog (puppy)	Tamara Rhae Newton	6 years	Few details available.

Fatalities reported in 1981

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1981.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
October	Doberman pinscher	Ronald Messer	4 years	Killed after he climbed over a fence into a yard where the dogs were kept in a kennel.
?	Mongrel	Mary Logan	81 years	She was killed by several of the dogs she kept in her house in Northern Liberties, a neighborhood in Philadelphia.
?	Pit bull	?	6 years	In Kaimuki, Hawaii

Fatalities reported in 1984

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1984.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
March	Siberian husky	Rachel Hernandez	4 years	She was attacked in her front yard by a neighborhood dog that had broken free from its rope.

Fatalities reported in 1985

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1985.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
December 19	English sheepdog	Gertrude Monroe	87 years	Family members said the woman died of stroke immediately before she was mauled. The Medical Examiner concluded that she died of the dog attack.

Fatalities reported in 1988

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1988.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
January 21	Labrador Retriever	Megan Stack	2 years	Early in the morning, her father heard her scream and ran downstairs to find the dog biting her head. The dog, "Toby", was 80 pounds, eight years old, and had been their family dog for nine months. She died of several bites to the head and neck. Experts expressed surprise, noting that the breed had been well known for its gentleness and for being good with children.
May	Rottweiler	Melissa Boyse	16 months	The dog was usually kept in a cage in the house but was let out by the girl's brother.
September	Husky-Wolf mix	Nathan Carpenter	4 years	Neighbors' dog, two hours after being adopted from an animal shelter.

Fatalities reported in 1989

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1989.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
October 20	Rottweilers (2)	Hoke Lane Prevette	unknown	Attacked while jogging near his home.
December	German shepherd and possibly a German Shepherd-Chow chow mix	Alexander Jones	3 years	The dogs were usually kept fenced in behind a storage building but were running free at the time of the attack.

Fatalities reported in 1990

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1990.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
March	German Shepherd	Laurene MacLeod	35 years	The homeless woman was killed by a police dog that entered a vacant house where she was staying.

Fatalities reported in 1995

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
January	wolf-German shepherd hybrid	Unknown	2 years	The boy in South Dakota wandered into a neighbor's yard, where he was attacked and killed by two chained dogs.
April	Rottweiler	Lindsay Shanaman	2 years	Killed by her grandmother's 120-lb dog.
May 19	Rottweiler-mix and at least 11 other dogs	Robert Thorpe	11 years	The boy was killed when visiting the trailer where the dogs lived to check on one that he had hit earlier in the day with his go-cart. The boy's father and cousins were accused of burning the trailer where the dogs lived in retaliation.
May	Rottweiler	Kirby Lawrence	2 years	Killed by a chained dog.
September	Chow Chow	Unknown	3 week	A girl in Pennsylvania was killed in her crib by the family Chow Chow while her parents slept in the next room.
October	Rottweiler	Melton Earl Smith	60 years	Three dogs were implicated in the attack. Little information available.
November 17	Rottweilers	Alec Balbachan	4 years	The Rottweilers, one male and one female, had rarely left the fenced-in backyard since they were puppies. Alec's uncle came home and let the dogs into the yard, where Alec's 8-year-old cousin and others had regularly played with the dogs in confidence. Alec, visiting from another town, followed his cousin into the yard, and the attack occurred. His grandmother stopped the attack, but not before it caused severe wounds to head and neck. Alec was found unresponsive by EMTs and taken to intensive care. The dogs were seized and taken into quarantine. The decision was made to take Alec off life support was made just after noon on Sunday. The dogs were killed on Monday. No charges had been filed as of Tuesday.

Fatalities reported in 1996

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
February	Rottweiler and German Shepherd	Anthony Hunt	4 years	Few details available.
March	Rottweiler	Unknown	86 years	A woman in Tennessee went outside of her home to check the weather and was fatally mauled by two rottweilers owned by a neighbor; the dogs had attacked and injured the woman 1 month before the fatal attack.
June	Rottweiler	John Young	8 years	John Young and a group of other boys were teasing the two dogs with a ball when they attacked.
July 4	Rottweiler	Matthew Pedercini	1 year	The boy was snatched away from his mother by a 130-lb dog, which was tied up outside at the time. The dog exhibited the "hold and shake" bite style characteristic of Pit Bulls.
July	Rottweiler	Kasandra Duvall	21 month	The dog broke free from its chain before killing the girl.
October	Rottweiler and Rottweiler mix	Corey Hines	10 year	Six dogs escaped from a fenced yard and attacked the boy.

Fatalities reported in 1999

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 1999.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
February	Labrador retriever-German shepherd mix (2)	Ellyssa Rhae Peterson	5 years	The family had adopted the two dogs after they were found as strays. The girl was alone with the dogs in the back yard when she was bitten. The sheriff said that the 50 to 60-lb dogs were not Pit bulls or Rottweilers.
March	Airedale Terrier	Tyler Dean Teter-Chilton	2 weeks	The child was asleep in bed before his grandparents heard a noise and then found the dog shaking him in its mouth. The family had owned the dog for 9 years.
March	Dogs never identified or found, but police said they were "relatively sure" they were Rottweilers or Doberman Pinchers	Darrel Roberson	42 years	A newspaper carrier found the man with the two dogs chewing on him.
October	German shepherd mix	Demetrius Marcellus Tucker Jr.	5 day	The boy was bitten by his foster family's dog, 3 days after being placed in their care.

Fatalities reported in 2000

News organizations reported at least 1 fatal dog attack in the United States in 2000.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
February	Rottweiler	Justin Tabner	5 years	The boy was attacked after becoming entangled in the chain that restrained his family's dog.
June	Pack of up to 20 dogs	Dorothy Stewart	71 years	Dorothy Stewart was a census worker who had gone to the rural home to survey the occupants. The owners of the dogs had been cited for failing to restrain them on multiple previous occasions.
June	German shepherd-Husky mix and Pit bull-Labrador retriever mix	Jasmine Dillashaw	18 day	Bitten when left alone in baby swing.
October	Pomeranian	Girl - name withheld	6 weeks	An uncle was babysitting the child and left her alone to prepare a bottle for her. When he returned, he found the dog attacking her.
Unknown	Pit Bull	Ramani Virgil	2 years	Playing in the backyard of his Baton Rouge home when he got too close to tethered pet, “Baby”, who bit him repeatedly, severing an artery. Died within hours in the hospital. Family had the dog destroyed.

Fatalities reported in 2001

News organizations reported at least 4 fatal dog attacks in the United States in 2001.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
January 26	Perro de Presa Canario	Diane Whipple	33 years	Killed by her neighbor's two dogs in the hall of her San Francisco apartment building. The incident sparked an extensively publicized aftermath and the owners went to prison. The dogs, "Hera" and "Bane", had reportedly been mistreated and trained for violence by previous owners.
March	Rottweiler	Joshua Brown	3 years	Few details available.
March 5	Pack of stray dogs	Rodney McAllister	10 years	Killed by stray dogs in park where he had gone alone to play. His mother went to jail and lost custody of her other son for not supervising the child. Sparked review of Animal Control procedures because neighbors complaints about the free-ranging dogs in the park had not been successfully responded to. Sparked a police round-up of ten stray dogs in and around the park: two chows, a rottweiler, a German shepherd and six mixed-breed dogs.
April	Rottweiler	Jovanna King	1 Month	Girl killed after dog escaped from its pen.
June	Rottweiler	Kyle Anthony Ross	5 years	Boy killed at home of his foster mother. The dog was usually kept in a chain-link cage behind the home.
June 11	Pit bull	Tyran Moniz-Hilderbrand	18 Months	Dogs belonged to a houseguest; mother badly mauled in trying to save her son.
August	Mixed breed dogs (possibly including Rottweiler, Pit bull, Beagle, and Labrador retriever)	Donald Bryson Shumpert	2 years	The nine dogs thought to be involved belonged to the neighbor. The boy was found about 50 yards from his home.
August	Rottweiler	Sierra Clayton	3 years	Killed by dog after it broke free from its tether.
October 29	Rottweiler	Kristin Ann Jolley	1 year	The girl was killed after walking up to the chained dog. The dog's owners were charged with starving and mistreating it.
November	German Shepherd and/or German Shepherd mix	Alexander Jarred Bennett	3 day	Attacked when left alone in a bassinet.
November	Husky (2)	Josie Simone Hearon	3 weeks	Attacked when left alone in a bassinet.
December	Rottweiler	Tristen Gambrel	3 years	Killed by 3 dogs.
Unknown	Chow	William Kirsh	59 years	Gravedigger killed by a black chow named "Midnight".

Fatalities reported in 2002

News organizations reported at least 2 fatal dog attacks in the United States in 2002.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
February 7	Rottweiler and 2 Rottweiler-Pug mixes	Genoe Novak	6 years	Dogs killed the boy after escaping from their yard.
February 14	Rottweiler	Alicia Clark	10 years	Killed by her neighbor's six dogs. The dogs' owner received 2 years in prison for leaving her alone with the dogs which had previously exhibited dangerous behavior.
April	Purebred Rottweiler	Victoria Morales	5 years	The dog was a prize-winning show dog. It was a 120-lb male. The dog attacked after the girl saw a lizard and screamed.
June 1	German Shepherd	Colter Kumpost	4 years	Killed by dog being trained for police work.
October	Rottweiler	Girl- no name released	23 months	While her parents were sleeping, the girl went into the backyard where two dogs were kept chained.
December	Husky mix	Unknown	2 weeks	Details not available.

Fatalities reported in 2003

News organizations reported at least 8 fatal dog attacks in the United States in 2003.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
March	Rottweiler	Lily Krajewski	2 years	Killed after dogs escaped from their kennel.
March	Rottweiler	Wesley Swindler	3 years	Killed after crawling into the dog's pen.
March 7	Rottweiler	Jennifer Nicole Davis	5 years	Killed by two dogs.
March 24	Pit bull	Tre'sean Forsman	3 years	Killed by a friend's dog.
March 26	Rottweiler	Vivian Anthony		Attacked by 2 two dogs and died 53 days later.
April	Malamute-Wolf hybrid	Andre Angel Thomas	13 month	Killed while sleeping in the living room of an acquaintance of his mother.
May 16	American Staffordshire Terrier (Pit bull)	Bonnie Page	75 years	Killed by her landlord's dog; her landlord was also injured in the attack.
May 23	Stray dogs	Cedric Edmonds	37 years	Killed by stray dogs.
June 20	Pit bull	Somer Clugston	2 years	Killed by her babysitter's dog when she left her alone in the house. The babysitter was sentenced to one year in jail for involuntary manslaughter. The dog had previously bitten two other children.
August	Rottweiler	Samantha Grace Bauld	3 years
September 7	Doberman Pinscher	Valerie DeSwart	67 years	Killed by a rescue dog she had adopted. The rescue organization was under investigation for mistreating the dogs under its care.
October 2	Great Dane	Makayla Paige Sinclair	2 years	Killed by 2 chained dogs when she wandered into their owner's yard.
November 20	Pit bull (3)	Jennifer Brooke	40 years	Killed by her neighbor's three dogs, one of which had attacked another neighbor seven months earlier. The owner was sentenced to six months in jail for owning a dangerous dog that caused death.
December 12	Pit bull-mix or Labrador-pit bull mix (6)	Alice Broom	81 years	Killed by her neighbor's six dogs. The owner was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 12.5 years in prison. Some news articles reported the dogs were "Labrador-pit bull dogs", but other articles and court documents referred to them as just "pit bull mix."

Fatalities reported in 2004

News organizations reported at least 14 fatal dog attacks in the United States in 2004.

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
January 13	Mixed-breed dog (Pit bull-type)	Nathan Roy Hill	3 years	Killed by a dog chained in the neighbor's yard.
February 21	Beagle-mix	Truston Heart Liddle	17 months	Wandered with his brother from his parents, a farmer and his wife who were working their land, onto an adjacent farm. Got too close to a chained dog, who, although well-fed and watered, appeared to spend most of his time teathered in place.
March 11	Mixed-breed dog	Madison Carson	2 years	Killed by relative's loose dogs.
April	Rottweiler	Samuel Trucks	2 years	Killed by two dog.
April 3	Pit bull	"John Doe"	16 months	Killed by his grandmother's dog. The dog bit off one of its owner's fingers when she tried to intervene.
April 16	Pit bull (4)	Roddie Dumas, Jr.	8 years	Killed by his father's four dogs. The father was charged with involuntary manslaughter and a federal charge of assaulting a postal worker who tried to rescue the victim. He was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after being convicted on the assault charge and related drug and weapons charges.
April 16	Pit bull-mix	Myles Leakes	4 years	Killed by his uncle's chained dog.
April 24	Bullmastiff–German Shepherd mix	John Streeter	8 years	Killed by neighbor's two dogs while playing in his neighbor's backyard.
May	Rottweiler	Leta Ward	65 years	Killed by own dog. Owner was said to have known the dog was aggressive.
August 6	Pit bull (6)	Mary DeLacy	87 years	Killed by her son's six dogs.
September 1	Pit bull-Labrador Retriever mix	Isaiah Calandis Smith	18 months	Killed by a chained dog in his yard.
October 5	Mixed-breed dog	Jose Diaz	5 weeks	Killed by his mother's dog.
October 8	Pit bull-mix	Anton Brown	8 years	Killed by two dogs the family was keeping for a family friend.
December 13	Pit bull-mix	Kamryn Billingsly	One month	While she was sleeping next to her mother at a friend's house, the dog grabbed the child, dragged it down the hall, and killed it. The dog was usually kept outside but brought inside that night because it was cold out.
December 13	Mongrel (Pit bull-type)	Annilee McKinnon	5 years	Killed by a neighbor's 3 dogs while playing in the front yard at the home of her birth parents. This was not the girl's regular residence because she had been living with a foster family for four years. The neighbor who owned the dogs had been cited two weeks prior because the dogs had gone into another yard and attacked a neighbor's dog.

Fatalities reported in 2005

News organizations reported at least 29 fatal dog attacks in the United States in 2005. The category of dog most commonly reportedly involved in these attacks were pit-bull type and pit-bull mixes (15 attacks), followed by Rottweilers (6 attacks):

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
January 2	Mixed breed dog and Pit Bull mix	Tyler Babcock	6 years	Severely mauled by his next-door neighbor's two dogs. The dogs were frequently loose in the neighborhood. One female dog was described as "part pit bull." The other male dog "had a large head and other characteristics of a pit bull," but investigators weren't sure if he had pit bull breeds in him.
January 28	Pit bull, Mixed-breed dog	Lydia Chaplin	14 years	Died of hypothermia after being attacked by 4 dogs (3 pit bulls, 1 mixed-breed dog) while walking alone at night in a rural area, one-half mile from home
February 4	Pit bull	Barbara Pilkington	70 years	The dog's owner was abusing the dog at the time of the attack and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The dog's owner had been arrested several months earlier for beating another dog to death.
March 8	Pit bull	Dorothy Sullivan	82 years	Killed by three dogs while walking her Shih Tzu on her own property
March 15	Rottweiler, Rottweiler-mix	Sandra Sanchez	32 years	Killed by two dogs that she had been caring for on behalf of the owner
April 5	Pit bull	Cassidy Jeter	6 years	Killed by her family's two dogs as she walked to a swing set with her 4-year old brother
April 10	Rottweiler–German Shepherd-mix	Robert Schafer	4 years	Killed by his family's dog when he opened the dog's pen
April 13	American Bulldog and/or "American Terrier" and/or Pit bull and/or Cane Corso	Ernie Assad	82 years	Attacked by two dogs owned by Cleveland Browns tight end Darnell Sanders and a third dog while watering his own back yard. One dog was referred to as a Cane Corso and the other two were variously described as American Bulldog, "American Terrier," or Pit Bull dogs. The man died of directly related complications (cerebral blood clot) 11 days later. Investigators later determined that the Cane Corso played only a minor role in the attack. An attorney for dog owner Darnell Sanders argued that the dogs only knocked over the man. However, the local animal control officer stated that she saw 7 bite marks on Assad when she interviewed him the night of the attack.
April 14	Mixed-breed dog	Laverne Ford	74 years	Killed by her own two dogs in her own home
May 2	Rottweiler	Asia Turner	4 years	Killed by her family's two dogs in her own back yard
May 6	Husky, Alaskan Malamute	Samantha Black	2 years	Killed by her family's two dogs in her back yard
May 7	Alaskan Malamute	Kate-Lynn Logel	7 years	Killed by her family's new dog in her back yard
May 10	"part Pit bull"	Lorinze Reddings	42 years	Killed by his own two dogs in his own home
May 15	Labrador Retriever-mix, Dachshund	Julia Beck	87 years	Killed by her in-law's two dogs
May 17	Pit bull	Arianna Fleeman	2 years	Killed while visiting a friend's home with her mother
June 3	Pit bull	Nicholas Faibish	12 years	There were two dogs in the home. The boy's mother felt that the male dog was acting possessive toward the female dog because she was in heat. So when the mother left to run errands, she locked the boy in the basement to keep him separated from the dogs. While she was gone, the boy left the basement and was killed by the dogs. The boy's mother was charged with felony child endangerment.
July 1	American Bulldog, Neapolitan Mastiff, Border Collie	Boyd Fiscus	83 years	Killed in his own back yard by his neighbor's four dogs (two American Bulldogs, a Neapolitan Mastiff, and a Border Collie)
July 4	Pit bull	Dazavious Williams	5 weeks	Killed when a neighborhood dog grabbed him from his aunt's arms
July 13	Siberian Husky	Alexis McDermott	6 days	Killed in her crib by her family's dog
August 2	Rottweiler	Cassandra Garcia	16 months	Killed when her grandparent's dog grabbed her from her mother's arms
October 3	Pit bull mix	Jonathan Martin	2 years	Killed by at least one of his family's dogs inside his home. His parents were each sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter and felony child endangerment.
October 14	Pit bull, Schnauzer	Mike Gomez	86 years	Killed by two dogs while out walking or jogging
October 15	Rottweiler	Sydney Akin	6 years	Killed visiting the home of a family friend
November 6	Pit bull	Kylee Johnson	14 months	Killed by her family's dog
November 18	Pit Bull Mixes	Hulon Barbour	60 years	Killed by two dogs while walking home
November 24	Unknown dogs	Roberto Aguilera	64 years	Killed during the night by unknown dogs in relative's yard
November 26	Pit bull–Rottweiler mix	Lillian Styles	76 years	Killed by her neighbor's six dogs in her own front yard
December 6	Bullmastiff	Mary Stiles	91 years	Killed by her own dog in her own home
December 30	Pit bull	Cody Adair	4 years	Killed by his uncle's chained dog

Fatalities reported in 2006

News organizations reported at least 30 fatal dog attacks in the United States in 2006. The category of dog most commonly reportedly involved in these attacks were pit-bull type and pit-bull mixes (16 attacks), followed by Rottweilers (9 attacks).

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
January 9	Rottweiler	Ashton Lee Scott	11 months	Killed by his grandmother's dog
February 4	Bullmastiff	Conner Lourens	7 years	Killed by his neighbor's dog
February 24	Rottweiler	Dominic Giordano	4 years	Killed in own back yard by his relative's dog
March 14	Pit bull	Charles Gilbert Dalton	52 years	Killed by his relative's two dogs. The owner pleaded guilty to manslaughter
March 20	Rottweiler	Quillan Cottrell	3 years	Killed by his family's dog
April 10	Pit Bull mix	"John Doe"	Unknown	Climbed fence into business with three guard dogs. When the police arrived, they were able to order the dogs away from the victim.
May 2	Pit bull and up to 3 others	Juan Garcia	53	Killed by at least one dog at a property where he occasionally worked as a handyman.
May 6	Mixed breed	Dianna Acklen	60 years	Killed while out for a walk. Of four dogs initially suspected, one was cleared by bite mark examination and DNA results on two others were inconclusive.
May 11	Pit bull	Raymond Tomco	78 years	Killed in his own home by his daughter's three dogs
June 7	Pit bull dogs	Shaun McCafferty	27 years	Killed outside a meth lab by one or more of the lab owner's dogs
June 17	Pit bull	Javelin Anderson	15 months	Killed by her family's chained dog
June 22	Rottweiler	Gemma Carlos	2 years	Killed by a neighbor's chained dog in the neighbor's yard
July 17	Wolfdog	Sandra Piovesan	50 years	Killed by one or more of her son's 9 wolf-dog hybrids
July 18	Pit bull	Brandon Coleman	25 years	Killed in his own home by his own dog
July 25	Pit bull, Rottweiler	Mariah Puga	3 years	Killed by two of her family's dogs
July 27	Pit bull	Jimmie McConnell	71 years	Killed while gardening in her own yard by her neighbor's dog
July 31	Pit bull	John Brannaman	81 years	Killed by his neighbor's two dogs while taking out the trash
August 18	Perro de Presa Canario	Shawna Willey	30 years	Killed by her own dog while giving it a bath
August 29	Pit bull	Frank Baber	49 years	Killed by two dogs in the salvage yard where he was living
August 29	Boxer	Pablo Flietes	52 years	Killed when he entered the pen of his employer's dog
October 3	Rottweiler	Julius Graham	2 years	Killed when a neighbor's dog escaped its pen
October 8	Pit bull	Jeannine Fusco	44 years	Killed by her friend's dog while taking care of it
October 29	Pit bull	David McCurry	41 years	Killed while inquiring about buying the dog that killed him
November 3	Rottweiler	Ariel Pogue	2 years	Killed by one of her family's dogs
November 3	Mixed breeds	Matthew Davis	10 years	Killed by six dogs while walking home
November 4	Pit bull	Allen Young	22 months	Killed by his father's four dogs after he was moving to a new trailer and took the dogs off their chains and left them in the new trailer unsupervised with his young son
November 6	Rottweiler	Louis Romero, Jr.	2 years	Killed by dogs kept to guard home where parents were drug trafficking. Parents fled to Mexico after boy's funeral
November 9	Pit bull	Richard Adams	47 years	Killed by a dog guarding salvage yard
November 13	Rottweiler	James Eisaman	40 years	Killed by his girlfriend's two dogs
November 21	Mixed-breed dog and Pit Bull-mix	Pedro Rios	4 years	Killed by two stray dogs outside his home

Fatalities reported in 2007

News organizations reported at least 34 fatal dog attacks in the United States in 2007. The category of dog most commonly reportedly involved in these attacks were pit-bull type and pit-bull mixes (18 attacks), followed by Rottweilers (4 attacks).

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
January 12	Pit bull	Amber Jones	10 years	Killed when she tried to free a neighbor's dog after its collar was caught on their chain link as the dog tried to jump over the fence
January 15	German Shepherd	Linda Mittino	69 years	Killed by her own dog
January 24	Rottweiler	Matthew Johnson	6 years	Killed by two dogs the family had just adopted
January 28	Rottweiler	Taylor Kitlica	18 months	Killed by a stray dog her family had chained in their front yard in the hope that the owner would find it
February 16	Pit bull-mix English Mastiff-mix	Robynn Bradley	2 years	Killed while visiting her relatives when the relatives' two dogs escaped from their pen
March 16	Catahoula Bulldog	Pamela Rushing	50 years	Killed by her own dog;
March 22	Pit bull	Carolina Sotello	2 years	Killed by one of her family's dogs
April 23	Pit bull	Brian Palmer	2 years	Killed by his family's dog, the dog killed a cat a week before Palmer's death.
May 13	Pit bull	Celestino Rangel	90 years	Killed by his great niece's dogs
May 25	German Shepherd Dog, Doberman Pinscher	Magdalena Silva	95 years	Killed by her dogs as she went to feed them
~May 26	Unknown dogs	Carshena Benjamin	71 years	Killed by unknown dogs.
May 26	Pit bull	Dandre Fisher	3 years	Killed when he tried to climb over a fence into the dogs' yard
June 17	Chow-Chow mix	Phyllis Carroll	63 years	Killed by her own dog
June 29	Mixed-breed dogs	Mary Bernal	63 years	Killed by her sister's dog while visiting her sister
July 12	Rottweiler	Tiffany Pauley	5 years	Killed when she wandered into a neighbor's yard
July 23	Siberian Husky	Trey Paeth	11 months	Killed while visiting family friends when the friends' two dogs got into his playpen
July 29	Pit bull	Sabin Jones-Abbott	6 years	Killed by his family's dog while trying to feed it
August 16	Pit bull	Zachary King, Jr.	7 years	Killed by his family's dog
August 18	Chow Chow-Mix	Elijah Rackley	15 months	Killed when playing with the puppies of a stray dog his family had chained in the yard
August 31	Pit bull	Scott Warren	6 years	Killed without warning by his family's dog
September 12	Rottweiler	Kylie Cox	4 months	Killed by visitor's dog when her mother set her down to warm a bottle of milk
September 13	American Bulldog	Cheryl Harper	56 years	Killed by the same pack of roaming dogs that killed Edward Gierlach
September 13	American Bulldog	Edward Gierlach	91 years	Killed by the same pack of roaming dogs that killed Cheryl Harper
September 25	German Shepherd Dog-mix	Karson Gilroy	2 years	Killed when he wandered onto a neighbor's property
October 2	Pit bull	Tina Canterbury	42 years	Killed by her own dogs
October 5	Wolfdog	"Jane Doe"	73 years	Killed by her son's eight wolf-dog hybrids
October 15	Pit Bull-Mix	Rosalie Bivens	65 years	Killed by her son-in-law's seven dogs
November 5	American Bulldog-Mastiff mix	Tori Whitehurst	4 years	Killed by her family's dog
November 7	Pit bull	Seth Lovitt	11 years	Killed by his family's dog
November 12	Pit bull	Jennifer Lowe	21 years	Killed at her friend's home by her friend's dogs, both having earlier been determined to be legally "dangerous"
December 4	Pit bull	Cora Lee Suehead	61 years	Killed by her own four dogs
December 13	Pit bull	Holden Jernigan	2 years	Killed by his grandmother's dog
December 17	Pit bull	Blanche Brodeur	76 years	Killed at her son-in-law's home by her son-in-law's dog
December 25	Pit bull or Pit bull mix	Kelly Caldwell	45 years	Killed outside her home by roaming dogs

Fatalities reported in 2008

News organizations reported at least 23 fatal dog attacks in the United States in 2008. The category of dog most commonly reportedly involved in these attacks were pit-bull type and pit-bull mixes (14 attacks), followed by Huskies (3 attacks).

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
January 4	Doberman Pinscher	Andrew Stein	8 months	Killed by his family's dog
January 17	Jack Russell Terrier	Justin Mozer	6 weeks	Killed by his family's dog while sleeping on a king size bed
January 20	Pit bull	Kelli Chapman	24 years	Killed by her own two dogs
April 28	Husky-mix	Abraham Tackett	23 months	Killed by a neighbor's chained dog, apparently protecting its food
May 14	Pit bull	Julian Slack	3 years	Killed in his own home by a neighbor's dog
May 18	Pit bull	Tanner Monk	7 years	Killed by four of his neighbor's dogs.
June 18	Pit bull	Pablo Hernandez	5 years	Killed by his family's chained dog
June 28	Golden Retriever-mix Australian Shepherd-mix	Lorraine May	74 years	Killed Breaking up fight between her dogs (theory)
July 22	Pit bull	Tony Evans, Jr.	3 years	Killed when he wandered next to his neighbor's chained dog
July 25	Old English Sheepdog Mix	Addison Sonney	14 months	Killed by her family's dog
July 28	Labrador Retriever	Zane Earles	2 months	Killed by the family's 10-12 week puppy that had not been feed in days. The teen mother was convicted of manslaughter for leaving her baby unattended in a swing for over 6 hours with the hungry puppy.
August 14	Pit bull	Robert Howard	35 (est.)	Killed while saving the lives of a neighbor and her dogs from a stray or escaped fighting dog.
August 14	Pit bull	Isis Kreiger	6 years	Killed by her family's dog
August 17	Pit bull	Henry Piotrowski	90 years	Killed in his own back yard by his neighbor's dogs
September 4	Pit bull	Luna McDaniel	83 years	Killed when her neighbor's three dogs broke out of their pen
September 9	Husky	Alexis Hennessy	6 days	Killed in her crib by her family's dog
September 12	Pit bull	Cenedi Carey	4 months	Killed by his family's two dogs after being torn out of her stroller
September 22	Husky	"Jane Doe"	3 days	Killed by her family's dog
September 26	Pit bull-mix	Katya Todesco	5 years	Killed by her neighbor's dog
October 5	Mixed breed	Iopeka Liptak	13 months	Killed by her mother's dog
October 31	Pit bull	Chester Jordan	62 years	Killed by his daughter's dogs
November 26	Terrier-mix "also might be a type of pit bull"	Alexander Adams	2 years	The 40-45 lb dog was eating when the boy approached its food bowl. Dog belonged to the boy's grandmother.
December 19	107-lb, 4-year-old male Pit bull-Mastiff mix and 52-lb, 6-year-old female Pit bull	Gerald Adelmund	60 years	Killed by his nephew's two dogs in backyard. One dog had a litter of newborn puppies.

Fatalities reported in 2009

News organizations reported at least 30 fatal dog attacks in the United States in 2009. The category of dog most commonly reportedly involved in these attacks were pit-bull type and pit-bull mixes (14 attacks), followed by Rottweilers (4 attacks).

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
January 6	Pit bull	Cheyenne Peppers	5 years	Killed by a dog belonging to her mother, a dog belonging to her mother's boyfriend, and a puppy produced by those two dogs. Prior to the attack two of the dogs were chained up. The third dog, who was pregnant, was not chained at that time.
January 11	Rottweiler	Alex Angulo	4 years	Killed by a least one of his foster family's dogs
January 15	Rottweiler	Brooklynn Milburn	4 years	Killed after crawling through a fence into her neighbor's yard
January 19	Husky	Olivia Rozek	3 weeks	Killed by her family's dog after the dog pulled the child from a bed and dragged her into a hallway
January 19	A part-Rottweiler, Mixed breed dog	Brianna Shanor	8 years	Killed by a 100-lb dog that was chained outside a camping trailer that the dog used for shelter.
March 4	Chow-Chow–Golden Retriever mix	"Jane Doe"	2 weeks	Killed by her family's dog
March 16	Mastiff	Hill Williams	38 years	Killed by his own dogs
March 22	Husky	Dustin Faulkner	3 years	Killed by his neighbor's dog when it broke free of its chain
March 26	Pit bull	Tyson Miller	2 years	Killed by a chained dog in the backyard
March 31	Pit bull	Izaiah Cox	7 months	Killed by his great-grandmother's two dogs. Grandmother indicted for felony injury to a child, but died before case went to trial
April 10	Boxer	Michael Landry	4 years	Killed by his neighbor's three dogs when they escaped from their yard
April 10	Mixed breed (11)	Gordon Lykins	48 years	Killed by a pack of 11 dogs
April 13	Blue Heeler–Australian Shepherd mix	David Whitenack, Jr.	41 years	Killed by his landlord's three dogs
April 22	Pit bull-mix	Leonard Lovejoy, Jr.	11 months	Killed by his family's dog
June 15	Pit bull	Justin Clinton	10 years	Killed when visiting a friend by dogs owned by the friend's family. A jury awarded a US$7 million verdict for negligence against the dogs' owners.
June 27	Pit Bull Mix, Collie Mix	Gabrial Mandrell-Sauerhage	3 years	Killed by mother's boyfriend's dogs
August 10	Pit bull	Carter Delaney	20 years	Killed by his brother's two dogs while caring for them
August 14	Mongrels (16)	Sherry Schweder	65 years	Killed by the pack of stray dogs that killed Lothar Schweder
August 14	Mongrels (16)	Lothar Schweder	77 years	Killed by the pack of stray dogs that killed Sherry Schweder
August 15	Pit bull	"John Doe"	3 days	Killed by his family's dog after being brought home from the hospital. The pit bull and a German Shepherd mixed breed dog were both euthanized
August 15	Pit bull	Jasmine Deane	23 months	Killed by her family's chained dog.
October 23	Mixed-breed dog—possibly Akita and Pit bull-mix	Colton Smith	17 months	Killed at his babysitter's home by his babysitter's dog
October 28	Pit bull	Matthew Clayton "Booter" Hurt	2 years	After wandering 4 blocks from his home, the boy was killed when he crawled into a dog house where the dog was chained.
November 5	Pit bull	Destiny Knox	16 months	Killed at the home of her babysitter's boyfriend by one of the boyfriend's dogs. The dog was usually kept on a chain outside, but had slipped free from its collar.
November 24	Boxer mix and/or a Mixed breed dog	Karen Gillespie	53 years	Killed by a dog adjacent to the owner's property
November 30	Pit bull	Rosie Humphries	85 years	Killed along with her pet poodle by a dog that broke free of its chain because the "D" ring failed
December 4	Pit bull	Lowell Bowden	70 years	Killed by a pack of five dogs. Owner convicted of involuntary manslaughter
December 12	Rottweiler-Labrador Retriever mix	Dallas Walters	20 months	Killed at his great-aunt's home by her dog during his cousin's birthday party
December 12	Alaskan Malamute	Theresa Ellerman	49 years	Killed at her friend's home by her friend's dog
December 22	Weimaraner	Liam Peck	2 years	Killed by his family's dog

Fatalities reported in 2010

News organizations reported at least 34 fatal dog attacks in the United States in 2010. The category of dog most commonly reportedly involved in these attacks were pit-bull type and pit-bull mixes (18 attacks), followed by Rottweilers (4 attacks).

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
January 9	Pit bull	Omar Martinez	3 years	The father, boy, and their dog were together in their Apple Valley, CA backyard, but the father stepped inside, leaving the dog alone with the boy, the dog attacked. The aggressive dog kept EMTs away until police arrived and shot it. EMT found him unresponsive and took him to the hospital where he was declared dead two hours later. No charges were filed as of press time.
January 17	Mixed-breed dog or Pit bull	Johnny Wilson	56 years	Killed by his daughter's four dogs Police said the dogs were pit bulls, while the animal care and control commissioner said they were mixed-breed dogs.
February 8	Rottweiler	Carolyn Baker	63 years	Media reported that the woman was killed by her pet dog and was found in her driveway with numerous bite wounds. Although the woman's family said they did not believe the dog was responsible for the death, the dog was euthanized after a pathologist determined that severe dog bites contributed to her death.
February 12	Unknown dog(s) (Pit Bull)	Anastasia Bingham	6 years	Killed while walking to a friend's home. Investigators unable to locate dog(s) involved. Sheriff's deputies initially reported that a pit bull dog was responsible. Authorities were never able to find or identify any dog responsible for the attack. The dogs that were first thought to be responsible were found not to be involved. However, investigators "received confidential tips that stated that there were three other pit bulls, owned by the child's relatives, that were killed and dumped in a wooded area."
February 18	Siberian Husky	Robert D. Hocker	11 days	The boy was alone on a bed when the family's dog dog bit him.
February 20	Pit bull	Christine Staab	38 years	While Christine Staab was fighting with her mother, she was killed by one of her mother's six dogs. The family stated that the dog was protecting the mother.
February 20	American Bulldog	Violet Serenity Haaker	3 years	Killed when she became entangled in the chain restraining one of the dogs at the family's American-Bulldog breeding facility. It was originally reported that a pit bull was responsible.
February 23	Pit bull	"Jane Doe"	5 days	Severely injured by her family's dog on February 18, she died of her injuries on February 23
February 28	Rottweiler	Ashlynn Anderson	4 years	Killed by a dog owned by her stepfather, (Ax Men star Jesse Browning.
March 4	Pit Bull	Ethel Horton	65 years	Killed by her nephew's dog while trying defend her 71-year-old husband from it. She died of heart failure caused by the dog attack.
March 8	Rottweiler	Justin Lopez	9 months	Killed by his family's two newly acquired dogs. Dogs were obtained the day before.
April 14	Pit bull-mix	Thomas Carter, Jr.	7 days	Killed while in bed next to his mother who slept through the attack. After the attack the dog went outside and attacked another dog that was on a chain.
May 20	Sled Dog	Krystal Brink	3 years	Killed when she wandered into her neighbor's sled dog yard, her uncle's brother later shot all 6 sled dogs to death
May 25	Rottweiler	Hao Yun “Eddie” Lin	33 years	The man was a USPS letter carrier. The dog was in a house, but pushed open a door, ran after Lin, and caused his head to strike the ground. He died nine days later. Authorities did not say if the attack included bites.
May 28	Pit bull	Nathan Aguirre	2 years	Killed by his family's dog
June 3	Pit bull	Savannah Gragg	9 years	Killed in her home while opening the door to let the dog outside
June 15	Bullmastiff-mix Pit bull–Boxer mix Rottweiler-mix	Michael Winters	30 years	Killed by his nine dogs. Unknown which dogs/breeds participated in the attack. (5 Bullmastiff, 3 Pit bull–Boxer-mix, 1 Rottweiler-mix)
July 12	German Shepherd-Husky mix and Labrador retriever	Kyle Holland	5 years	Killed by the dogs of his mother's live-in boyfriend. The boyfriend pled guilty to a charge of dangerous animal death and the mother pled guilty to child abuse and manslaughter. The mother was also charged with "accessory after the fact" because she tried to dispose of her boyfriend's marijuana plants before calling 911.
July 20	Pit bull	William Parker	71 years	Suffered a fatal heart attack when attacked by two of his neighbor's dogs. The dogs had attacked another neighbor 2 days earlier.
July 22	Pit bull	Jacob Bisbee	2 years	Killed by three of his step-grandfather's dogs. Grandfather arrested for manslaughter. The dogs had decapitated the family's pet Akita and killed the family's pet Chihuahua and parrot within the prior year. The dogs, which were kept in a garage, had previously shown aggression toward the boy.
July 31	German Shepherd Dog-mix	Aaron Carlson	2 years	Killed by his family's dog
August 19	Unknown dog(s)	Tracey Payne	46 years	Killed by a dog(s) in vacant lot.
August 22	Pit bull	Jerry Yates	69 years	Killed by 2 pit bulls a tenant was keeping on his land.
August 25	Pit bull "mixed-breed Shepard"	Jason Walter	7 years	Killed by a neighbor's three pit bulls and a mixed breed dog while staying at the neighbor's residence.
August 25	Boxer	Taylor Becker	4 years	Killed by a dog owned by a family friend.
September 4	Pit bull	Mattie Daugherty	85 years	Killed by her daughter's 9-year-old dog.
October 13	Pit bulls	Rev. John Reynolds Sr.	84 years	Found dead with severe bite wounds in a pen containing pit bull dogs.
October 24	Pit bull	Justin Valentin	4 days	Killed by his family's dog
November 2	Pit bull–Weimaraner-mix	Christina Casey	53 years	Killed in her own yard by her neighbor's two dogs
November 10	Pit bull-mix	Kaden Muckleroy	2 years	Killed by his grandfather's dog, which was chained to a tree.
November 15	Mixed-breed dog	Cason Bryant	5 years	Killed in his own yard by five of his neighbor's dogs
November 15	German Shepherd Dog	Shirley Lou Bird	79 years	Killed by her own dog, which had bitten her on prior occasions.
November 16	Pit bull	Justin Lane	25 years	Killed by his family's dog
December 5	Pit bull	Edward Mitchell	67 years	Edward Mitchell was bitten while disciplining the dog, which belonged to his nephew. He died two months later from complications of his injuries.
December 8	Stray dogs	Larry Armstrong	55 years	Killed by a pack of stray dogs, up to 445,000 of which roam the Navajo Nation
December 19	Rottweiler or Rottweiler mix	Janet Vaughan	3 months	While the child's mother bathed one dog, the child was killed by one of the nine dogs that the family kept in the back yard.

Fatalities reported in 2011

News organizations reported at least 31 fatal dog attacks in the United States in 2011. The category of dog most commonly reportedly involved in these attacks were pit-bull type and pit-bull mixes (21 attacks).

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
January 4	Pit bull mix	Linda Leal	51 years	Killed by her family's dog.
January 12	Pit bull - 2	Makayla Woodard	5 years	Killed by her neighbor's two dogs in her own yard. The neighbor pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 20 to 24 months in prison.
January 24	Akita	Kristen Dutton	9 years	Killed by her grandfather's newly adopted dog.
January 26	Pit bull - 3	Ronnie Waldo	51 years	Killed by landlord's three dogs while crossing yard from trailer home to landlord's home. Evidence showed the dogs appeared not to have eaten or been watered for a long time; the owner was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 20 years in prison (15 years suspended).
January 26	Stray dogs	Howard James Paul	76 years	The victim was a homeless man found dead in a vacant lot. The medical examiner determined he bled to death after being attacked by stray dogs.
February 17	Rottweiler	Sirlinda Hayes	66 years	Killed by her neighbor's two dogs in her own backyard. The dogs also attacked their owner when he tried to come to her aid.
February 19	Pit bull	Darius Tillman	15 days	Killed by family's dog.
March 7	Rottweiler	Vanessa Husmann	3 years	Killed by uncle's two dogs in backyard.
April 12	Rottweiler	Annabelle Mitchell	7 months	Killed by the family's dog when left unattended while child's mother was intoxicated. The girl's mother was subsequently convicted of endangering the welfare of a child.
April 22	Pit bull	Virgil Cantell	50 years	Killed by a dog that was chained to the front porch of a neighbor's house. The dog had bitten other neighbors in the month preceding the attack.
April 24	mixed breed Pit bull - 4	Margaret Salcedo	48 years	Killed by four dogs when she was out walking alone in her neighborhood. A passerby tried to help but the dogs drove him back into his car.
May 27	Cane Corso	Jayelin Graham	4 years	Killed by dog belonging to mother's boyfriend. News outlets initially reported that the dog involved was a pit bull.
June 11	Pit bull	David Haigler	38 years	Killed at home by his own dog.
June 15	Pit bull	Roy McSweeney	74 years	Mauled by neighbors' two pit bulls while walking on his property.
June 29	American Bulldog-mix or Dogo Argentino or "American terrier and pitbull mix"	Salvador Cotto	6 months	While visiting his aunt and uncle, the boy was briefly left alone in a room with their dog and was bitten. The medical examiner determined that the boy died of cerebral edema as a consequence of a single bite to the head, and ruled that the death was accidental.
July 3	American Bulldog	Michael Naglee	11 months	Killed by the dog of his paternal grandparents at a family gathering.
August 23	Pit bull-mix	Michael Cook	61 years	His own dog inflicted injuries on August 3 that required the amputation of both arms; he succumbed to his injuries on August 23.
August 11	Pit bull	Darla Napora	32 Years	Killed by one of her family's two pit bulls.
August 12	Rottweiler	James Dowling	4 years	Killed by his grandfather's dog when it escaped its enclosure.
August 30	Unknown	Addyson Paige Camerino	9 days	The child was killed in the kitchen of the family's home. There were five dogs in the home, a Pit bull, bulldog, Alaskan Malamute, German Shepherd, and German Shepherd-Bulldog mix. Three of the dogs were involved in the attack, but the news media did not report which three.
August 30	Pit bull	Carmen Ramos	50 years	Killed by her boyfriend's dog. The owner/boyfriend had previously been cited by the PSPCA for animal cruelty.
September 4	Labrador Retriever-mix or Pit Bull	Brayden McCollen	Two weeks	Killed by family dog. Some sources reported the dog as a Labrador retriever mix, others as a pit bull.
September 16	Doberman Pinscher	Donna Conrad	71 years	Killed by her dog.
September 30	Pitbull - 3	Nevaeh Bryant	20 Months	Killed by her aunt's three dogs. Her aunt later pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide, receiving a one-year suspended sentence.
October 3	Pit bull-Mastiff mix	Mya Maeda	11 days	Dragged from her bassinet and killed by the family dog.
November 11	Pit bull - 2	Edna Dyson	71 years	Severely injured on her property when a neighbor's dogs slipped through a hole in their fence and attacked her. She died of her injuries several days later.
December 5	Pit bull	Joseph Hines	58 years	Killed by his dog in his home.
December 6	American Bulldog or Pit bull	Tonia Parks	39 years	While trying to break up a fight between her two dogs, she suffered a seizure and was attacked on November 13. She succumbed to her injuries on December 6. Some news sources initially described the dogs as pit bulls and later described the dogs as American Bulldogs.
December 8	Pit bull	Misti Wyno	40 years	Killed by her neighbor's dog.
December 24	Pit bull - 2	Emako Mendoza	75 years	The victim was attacked by her neighbor's two pit bulls on June 18; she succumbed to her injuries on December 24. The pit bull owners were convicted on February 13, 2013 of voluntary manslaughter and of owning a dangerous animal causing death; one owner was sentenced to four years in state prison.
December 18	Pit bull	Mable McCallister	84 years	Severely injured on December 18 by her grandson's dog, the victim spent four days in a trauma center and died in hospice on December 31.

Fatalities reported in 2012

News organizations have reported 34 fatal dog attacks in the United States in 2012. The category of dog most commonly reportedly involved in these attacks were pit-bull type and pit-bull mixes (20 attacks).

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
January 14	Pit bull	Jace Valdez	23 months	Killed by his grandparent's dog.
January 30	German shepherd	"John Doe"	6 years	Mauled to death by a medical service dog trained to help a military veteran suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
February 16	Husky	Howard Nicholson, Jr.	2 days	Killed by one of the family's four dogs. The victim's mother pleaded guilty to child endangerment.
March 4	Pit bull	Diane Jansen	59 years	Suffered a stroke when attacked while delivering mail and soon died of stroke and heart disease with dog bite a contributing factor. The dog, which had been resting unchained in a garage with some juveniles, was later seized by animal control and later euthanized. A witness said there seemed to be something wrong with her before the bite, which the dog seemed to notice and spurred it to attack. The witness also noted that the dog had a reputation as trustworthy and friendly. The medical examiner said that the wounds were not very bad, but that soon after the frightening attack her speech began to slur, then she became unresponsive, and was taken to the hospital where she was given a poor prognosis and died the next day.
March 9	Rottweiler	Dylan Andres	17 months	Killed by neighbor's chained dog.
March 25	Pit bull or Pit bull-mix	Kylar Johnson	4 years	After wandering 1/2 mile from his home, the boy was killed by a chained dog in fenced yard.
April 9	Pit bull	James Hurst	92 years	Killed by neighbor's loose roaming dogs.
April 20	Golden Retriever - Labrador Retriever mix	Aiden McGrew	2 months	Killed by the family's dog. The death was ruled a homicide and child's father charged with illegal neglect of a child.
April 27	Mastiff - Rhodesian Ridgeback mix	Jeremiah Eskew-Shahan	1 year	Killed by the family dog.
May 2	Pit bull	Clifford Wright	72 years	Killed by his son's dog.
May 8	Pit bull	Jazilyn Mesa	15 months	Killed by the family dog. The victim's grandfather was charged with negligent child abuse resulting in death.
May 17	Pit bull-mix	Makayla Darnell	3 days	Killed by family's dog.
May 26	Pit bull	Eugene Cameron	65 years	Found dead in his car port with dog bite injuries. The dog was identified via DNA testing and the dog's owner, who was a neighbor, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and obstruction of justice.
May 27	Labrador Retriever - German Shepherd mix (2)	Ja'Marr Tiller	2 years	Killed by two stray dogs.
June 13	2 Mixed Breed dogs	Jack Redin	2 years	Killed by neighbor's two mixed-breed dogs after wandering onto the neighbor's property.
June 14	Pit bull	Tyzhel McWilliams	8 months	Killed by a single bite from one of three pit bulls owned by the mother's roommate. Immediately prior to the attack, the dog was on a bed with the mother's roommates who were smoking marijuana. The dog reportedly became "frisky," at which point they pushed it off the bed and it bit the boy. The cause of death was given as "penetrating craniocerebral injuries due to a dogbite."
July 11	Alapaha Blue-Blood Bulldog or Bullmastiff or Pit bull - Bull mastiff mix	Ronnel Brown	40 years	Killed by his own dog when it bit through his IV tube while he was undergoing at-home dialysis. Media reported the dog as several different breeds. The SPCA Cincinnati Officials that the dog was a "rare breed" Alapaha Blue-Blood Bulldog.
August 11 or 12	one or more of Presa Canario (2), Pit bull (2), Boxer-mix	Rebecca Carey	23 years	Unclear which or how many dogs (four her own, one her neighbor's) were responsible.
August 16	Pit bull	Charles Hagerman	44 years	Killed by at least one of two pit bulls that belonged to his girlfriend's son. Relatives said that Hagerman was scared of the dogs, which were kept in a cage. They also reported that the dogs had previously killed a dog and that they bit people that they did not know.
September 1	Cane Corso (2)	Dawn Jurgens	76 years	Killed by own dogs.
September 5	Unknown	Bryton Cason	4 years	Killed by an unknown dog.
September 7	Pit bull (2)	Debra Renee Wilson-Roberts	45 years	Killed by own dogs, which had bitten people on previous occasions, including the owner.
September 11	Mixed-breed dog	James Hudson	10 Months	Killed by the family dog. Animal shelter officials identified the dog as a Labrador - American Bulldog mix. The dog's owner and police identified the animal as a "pit bull mix."
September 20	Rottweiler (2)	Donald Thomas	82 years	Outside checking his mail when two dogs owned by a neighbor mauled him to death. Police shot and killed the two attacking dogs and subsequently removed more than 30 other Rottweilers from the neighbor's residence.
September 24	Pit bull-mix	Rayden Bruce	3 Months	An hour before the attack, police responded to the home for a domestic dispute between the infant's parents that included injuries. While the police were taking witness statements, the boy was left alone in a room with the dog and was attacked. The dog had been responsible for a "minor bite" in 2011. It had also been picked up by Animal Services in 2010 for running loose.
September 26	Pit bull	Nellie Davis	60 years	Killed by a family member's dog.
October 2	Mixed-breed dogs, German Shepherd mixes, and/or Pit bull-mixes (7)	Mary Jo Hunt	54 years	Killed while using a rake to stop an attack in which the pit bulls killed a pug and injured two terriers. Authorities euthanized the seven attacking dogs.
October 4	Pit bull	Tarilyn Bowles	3 weeks	Mauled indoors by family dog when left briefly unattended.
November 9	Rottweiler	Dixie Jennings	3 months	Killed at a boarding kennel owned by her mother.
November 11	Olde English Bulldogge or Olde English Bulldogge-American Bulldog mixes (8)	Remedios Romeros-Solares	30 years	Killed by the dogs at a house she was hired to clean. The owners are being investigated for owning 24 marijuana plants found at the home. The owner was breeding the dogs for sale.
November 14	Mastiff	Dawn Brown	44 years	Killed by a dog she had obtained less than one week earlier.
December 11	Pit bull (4)	Esteban Alavez	34 years	Visiting his relatives when killed by their neighbor's dogs. Other neighbors said that the dogs had a violent history and were always roaming loose in the area. A month earlier they had killed a neighbor's dog. However, Animal Control said that they had never received a complaint about the dogs.
December 13	Pit bull	Savannah Edwards	2 years	Killed while visiting a relative who rented living space from the dog's owner.
December 26	Stray dogs	Tomas Henio	8 years	Killed by a pack of stray dogs while snowsledding on a hill.

Fatalities reported in 2013

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
January 8	Pit bull	Betty Ann Chapman Todd	65 years	Emergency Medical Technicians found the victim with dog bites to neck, head, and face, and could not revive her. According to the owners, the victim had visited the house on several occasions and the dog had never shown aggressiveness towards her. Later, investigators discovered that the dog had a history of violence and had killed a Siberian Husky that it lived with. Four months prior to the attack on Ms Todd, the owners had attempted to reduce the dog's aggression by neutering it.
January 19	Pit bull	Christian Gormanous	4 years	Climbed over a fence and got too close to the neighbor's tethered dog.
February 8	Pit bull	Elsie Grace	91 years	Found dead with dog bites in motel room that she shared with her son and the two dogs. Autopsy results to determine if she died before or after being bitten are pending.
February 16	Pit bull	Isaiah Aguilar	2 years	Killed in a neighbor's yard by a dog tied up in the yard.
March 2	Pit bull	Ryan Maxwell	7 years	Killed by a dog that was kept chained in the back yard of a home he was visiting. The dog may have been let off the chain by the boy or may have broken free before the attack.
March 6	Pit bull (2)	Daxton Borchardt	14 Months	Killed by his babysitter's two dogs at the babysitter's residence. The babysitter was also injured but survived.
March 27	Pit bull & Pit bull-mix (7)	Monica Renee Laminack	21 months	Killed by dogs belonging to her mother's boyfriend. An autopsy confirmed that the child died of injuries consistent with a dog attack. The child's mother was subsequently charged with Cruelty to Children in the Second Degree.
April 7	Pit bull Mix (2) or Bulldogs	Tyler Jett	7 years	Attacked while riding his bike by his neighbor's two dogs and died 5 days later. The owner a week prior had received a citation for allowing his aggressive dogs loose and is currently facing criminally negligent manslaughter charges. Some sources identify the two dogs as "pit bull mixes"; other reports identified them as a "brindle bulldog" and an "Alapaha blue blood bulldog". Some articles referred to them as both "pit bull mixes" and "bull dogs" within the same article. Photos of the dogs exist.
April 11	Pit bull - Mastiff mix	Claudia Gallardo	38 years	A woman was killed after being attacked by a dog that has terrorized the neighborhood for months, according to authorities and residents. The dog, reported to be a female pit bull/mastiff mix, was also reported to have attacked neighbors in the past. Claudio Gallardo was killed after jumping into the fenced yard where the dog was kept.
April 22	American Staffordshire Terrier (Pit Bull)	Jordyn Arndt	4 years	Four year old Jordyn Arndt, was mauled by a pit bull at her babysitter’s home. The owner of the dog, 24-year old Jana Marie Wright, was supposed to be babysitting Jordyn and has been charged with multiple felonies punishable with up to 35 years in prison. Neighbors say that they had previously filed several complaints about the dog. The babysitter had a history of arrest on drug-related and child-neglect charges.
April 24	American Staffordshire Terrier mix (Pit Bull mix)	Beau Rutledge	2 years	The boy was killed while the mother stepped away to use the restroom. The dog was 8-years-old and neighbors said they had never thought it was aggressive.
April 30	German Shepherd	Rachael Honabarger	35 years	The attack happened at home involving a male dog registered to her husband. The dog was 100-150 lbs and 3 years old. One neighbor said that the dog has been aggressive and guarded the house. News sources reported that she died four days after the attack; however, the date given in her obituary was 2 days after the attack.
May 8	4 Pit bulls or Feral dogs (Mixed breed dogs with "possible 'pit bull' influence")	Carlton Freeman	80 years	Freeman, a bi-lateral amputee at the knees, was driving in his wheelchair when he was attacked by a pack of four dogs that neighbors said had been roaming the neighborhood on-and-off for months. He tried to fight the dogs, but was unable to and was pulled from his wheelchair. The incident happened on May 8, and Freeman died on May 12. The coroner says he had lacerations and bites “from his legs to the top of his head." Initial reports said that three of the dogs belonged to a woman who is Freeman's neighbor and relative. The Sheriff's Office later announced that the four dogs were feral and did not belong to anyone. Sheriff's reports described the dogs as "brown dogs" and Animal Control claimed that they were mixed breed "with possible 'pit bull' influence." However, multiple news sources stated that they were pit bulls. Photos of three of the dogs are available. One of the four dogs has not yet been found.
May 9	Pack of free-ranging dogs: Pit bulls (6) and/or Australian shepherd mix and/or Labrador Retriever-Collie mix or possibly unknown Stray dogs	Pamela Marie Devitt	63 years	The woman was walking near her home when she was attacked by a pack of four to five dogs. Police responded and fired at the dogs, which ran away into the desert. The police searched for the dogs and confiscated 8 from an area home that Animal Control and the community said contained dogs that had been aggressive in the past. The owner had been cited at least twice previously for incidents involving the dogs, including an attack on a horse. He had also been cited for failing to vaccinate, license, spay, neuter or microchip the dogs. He was also in violation of the legal limit in that jurisdiction of owning no more than 3 dogs. DNA results to determine if they are the dogs responsible are pending. The owner of the dogs is currently under arrest for allegedly running a marijuana growing operation. Local residents reported that the area repeatedly has problems with packs of dogs running loose.

Summary tables

The above list is summarized chronologically, by first by age group of victim, and then by dog category, in the summary tables below. You can help by ensuring that it is accurate and by keeping it up to date.

Dog bite-related fatalities in the US by age group of victim(s)

Year	Total	< 1 yr	1-10	11-20	21-30	31-40	41-50	51-60	61+	Unknown
1988	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2005	29	2	12	2	0	1	1	1	10	0
2006	30	1	12	0	3	1	4	5	3	1
2007	34	2	15	1	1	0	3	1	11	0
2008	23	6	10	0	1	0	0	1	4	1
2009	30	5	15	1	0	1	3	1	4	0
2010	34	6	14	0	2	1	1	3	7	0
2011	30	8	5	0	0	4	3	3	7	0
2012	35	8	11	0	2	2	3	3	6	0
Total	246	38	95	4	9	10	18	18	52	2

Dog bite-related fatalities in the United States by category of dog(s) involved

Year	Total	# Most fatal attacks by	# Second-most fatal attacks by	# Third-most fatal attacks by
1947	1	German Shepherd (1) (100%)	NA	NA
1981	3	Doberman pinscher (1) (33%) Mongrel (1) (33%) Pit Bull (1) (33%)	NA	NA
1984	1	Siberian husky (1) (100%)	NA	NA
1985	1	English sheepdog (1) (100%)	NA	NA
1988	3	Labrador Retriever (1) (33%) Rottweiler (1) (33%) Wolfdog (1) (33%)	NA	NA
1989	2	German Shepherd (1) (50%) Rottweiler (1) (50%)	NA	NA
1990	1	German shepherd (1) (100%)	NA	NA
1995	7	Rottweiler (4) (57%)	Mixed breed dog (2) (29%)	Chow Chow (1) (14%)
1996	6	Rottweiler (6) (100%)	German Shepherd (1) (17%)	NA
1999	4	Mixed breed dog (2) (50%)	Airedale Terrier (1) (25%) Unknown dog (1) (25%)	NA
2000	5	Mixed breed dog (2) (40%)	Rottweiler (1) (20%) Pit bull (1) (20%) Pomeranian (1) (20%)	NA
2001	13	Rottweiler (6) (46%)	Mixed breed dog (1) (8%) Perro de Presa Canario (1) (8%) Unknown strays (1) (8%) Pit bull (1) (8%) Chow (1) (8%) Husky (1) (8%)	NA
2002	6	Rottweiler (4) (67%)	Mixed breed dog (2) (33%)	German Shepherd (1) (17%)
2003	14	Rottweiler (5) (36%)	Pit Bull (4) (29%)	Mixed breed dog (3) (21%)
2004	15	Mixed breed dog (10) (67%)	Pit Bull (3) (20%)	Rottweiler (2) (13%)
2005	29	Mixed breed dog (11) (38%)	Pit bull (10) (34%)	Rottweiler (4) (14%)
2006	30	Pit bull (14) (47%)	Rottweiler (9) (30%)	Mixed breed dog (4) (13%)
2007	34	Pit bull (14) (41%)	Mixed breed dog (7) (21%)	Rottweiler (4) (12%)
2008	23	Pit bull (12) (52%)	Mixed breed dog (7) (30%)	Husky (2) (9%)
2009	30	Pit bull (11) (37%) Mixed breed dog (11) (37%)	Rottweiler (2) (7%) Husky (2) (7%)	Mastiff (1) (3%) Boxer (1) (3%) Alaskan Malamute (1) (3%) Weimaraner (1) (3%)
2010	36	Pit bull (15) (42%)	Mixed breed dog (9) (25%)	Rottweiler (4) (11%)
2011	31	Pit bull (14) (45%)	Mixed breed dog (5) (16%)	Rottweiler (4) (13%)
2012	34	Pit bull (13) (38%)	Mixed breed dog (9) (26%)	Rottweiler (3) (9%)

See also

• Dog attack
• Wolf attacks on humans
• Coyote attacks on humans

External links

• American Veterinary Medical Association: Dog Bite Prevention
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Dog Bite Prevention