U Penn's Center for the Interaction of Animals and
Society released data published 6/25/08 by Discovery
News at http://blogs.discovery.com/news_animal/
For some reason, raw data is presented without
tabulation or comparison, so I transfered the numbers to
a table and then did sorts and averaging, leading to the
following (reading from top to bottom, so in the first
example Jack Russell is MOST and Greyhound is LEAST):
The most dog-aggressive breeds
Jack Russell
Pit Bull
Dachshund
The least
Havanese
Whippet
Greyhound
The most human-aggressive breeds
Dachshund
Chihuahua
Beagle (!)
The least
Brittany Spaniel
Rhodesian Ridgeback
Poodle
ON AVERAGE (humans+animal/2)
The most aggressive
Dachshund
Chihuaha
Jack RUssell
The least
Brittany Spaniel
Whippet
Greyhound
COMMENTS:
The dogs some might expect to see high on the lists
(Akita, Rotty, Dobe, German Shepherd) were about in the
middle. The dogs that seem to belong near the bottom in
aggression (Cocker, Springer, Mastiff, Golden) were also
in the middle. I was surprised by U Penn's data, but the
numbers are big enough to be statistically valid, so...
My German Pinscher didn't appear on the chart. Evidently
no human victim survived to re****t her behavior, and of
other dogs there was no trace remaining.
Ike
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