wtf. that many people died by dog in 2019? How can that be. I’m in a country of 23 million, and no one that I can find died by dog attack directly, but in 2019, eight people died of rabies from bites. EIGHT! I’m not a statistician, but one can see something is up in America. But what?!? Are dogs more vicious in N. America? Is dog training better in Nepal than in America? Or like the people living in the USA, have all the dogs gone mad?
Merritt & Beth Cliftonsays
The problem is not that “dogs” are more vicious in North America than in Nepal, or in the United Kingdom and South Africa for that matter, which have comparable statistics relative to human and dog population, but rather that the U.S., Canada, U.K., and South Africa all have pit bull populations in the vicinity of 5% of all dogs, accounting in North America for 179 (76%) of the 236 human deaths by dog in the five years 2018-2021, in the U.K. for 46 (82%) of the 56 human deaths since the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 supposedly banned pit bulls but exempted them under any name but “American pit bull terrier,” and in South Africa for 41 (75%) of the 55 fatal dog attacks since 2004.
Jamaka Petzaksays
Sharing with gratitude and all of the usual thoughts and feelings, and with appreciation for that explanation, Merritt & Beth, as well as that apt observation by Jigs Gaton (final sentence).
wtf. that many people died by dog in 2019? How can that be. I’m in a country of 23 million, and no one that I can find died by dog attack directly, but in 2019, eight people died of rabies from bites. EIGHT! I’m not a statistician, but one can see something is up in America. But what?!? Are dogs more vicious in N. America? Is dog training better in Nepal than in America? Or like the people living in the USA, have all the dogs gone mad?
The problem is not that “dogs” are more vicious in North America than in Nepal, or in the United Kingdom and South Africa for that matter, which have comparable statistics relative to human and dog population, but rather that the U.S., Canada, U.K., and South Africa all have pit bull populations in the vicinity of 5% of all dogs, accounting in North America for 179 (76%) of the 236 human deaths by dog in the five years 2018-2021, in the U.K. for 46 (82%) of the 56 human deaths since the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 supposedly banned pit bulls but exempted them under any name but “American pit bull terrier,” and in South Africa for 41 (75%) of the 55 fatal dog attacks since 2004.
Sharing with gratitude and all of the usual thoughts and feelings, and with appreciation for that explanation, Merritt & Beth, as well as that apt observation by Jigs Gaton (final sentence).