AN SC 215 Lecture 11: 11 Dangerous Dogs
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Background: approximately 4. 7 million dog bites/year in us. Risk factors for being bit (based on epidemiological studies: age most victims <15 years old. Don"t read the dog"s signals: gender. Almost 50% of children bit by the time they are 12 years old. Give off mixed signals: yelling, screaming, running. Boys > girls: excitability, season of year. Dogs most likely to bite: sex. On chains/tied out: owned vs. stray. Owned dogs (not stray: most bites occur to someone known to the dog (cid:523)often in the dog"s own family) Physical location of bites- kids vs. adults: most bites to adults occur on extremities, most bites to children occur on head, face, and neck. Compare to human fatalities by gunshot (12,000 annually) or accidents (10,000 annually: age of victims. 70% occur in children <10 years old (especially neonatal infants) 10% occur in seniors > 69 years old. Almost always (cid:498)owned(cid:499) animals (cid:523)not strays(cid:524: common breeds involved.
