Australian DBRF'S--RSPCA Victorian chief executive Maria Mercurio says the policy has changed since 2009 as there is a lack of research showing pit bulls or any other breed is more prone to attack. "The statistics just aren't there," she says. "Most breeds of dogs can be aggressive and be violent if they are trained and kept that way. We have matured, and our opinion and our policy has evolved."

AUSTRALIAN DBRF'S....

INFANTS and young children remain most vulnerable to dog attack, with two children killed in NSW in the past five years, one in Western Australia, and another little girl in Victoria.

Two-week-old Kate Morey didn't stand a chance when her family's pet Siberian husky attacked her in her cot in Perth in 2007.

A nine-week-old girl from Pakenham on Melbourne's southeastern fringe also died after being dragged from her cot by the family rottweiler in the same year.

In NSW, three-year-old Ruby-Lea Burke died after being savaged by four bull mastiff crosses in the home of her babysitter at Whitton in 2009.

And in 2006, four-year-old Tyra Kuehne wandered into a neighbour's backyard and was killed by up to six dogs in Warren, 540km northwest of Sydney.

The dogs were various crossbreeds of boxer, greyhound, pit bull and mastiff, and had been trained for pig-hunting.

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