Highland Park wants to ban Pit Bulls in part to curb Chicago Dog bites
The CBS 2 Chicago is reporting that the city of Highland Park has plans to plans to ban pit bulls. The city is considering amendments to the ordinance that regulates dogs to enact a ban on pit bulls.
Highland Park Mayor Michael Belsky initiated the ban following the mauling of a 14-year-old girl, who was bitten on the face and arms and required hundreds of stitches after a pit bull attack.
The statistics regarding dog bites are interesting: According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), U.S. emergency rooms treated an estimated 310,000 people for dog bites in 2007. This estimate has fallen fairly consistently since 2001, when an estimated 366,000 bite victims were treated. In addition, a 2000 study cited by the CDC and other health agencies reports pit bull-type dogs were responsible for more bite-related deaths than other breeds from 1979 to 1999-- but it cautions that those statistics may mean pit bulls are just more common than other types of dogs.
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