How can dog attacks be stopped?

Yes, I did :blush:, thanks!

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Yes, was saying that the little house dogs with hair in their eye and are only carried out are not a problem in our area and there are not many here. 2 miles away in town you are much more likely to see them out if it is fenced.

Even if it has short hair, if they are smaller than the cats, I call them all “floor mops.” :smiley:

Those numbers are meaningless by themselves. To be useful we’d need to know how many times do people go to bed in a year, how many times do people walk under tree branches, and how many times do people encounter an unrestrained dog in a year. I highly suspect the last one is infinitesimal compared to the other two. To assess the risk you also need to take injuries into account, not just fatalities.

What are all the animals that humans have made into pets like dogs & cats?
People to dog ratios?
People to cat ratios?

What stats on cat bites & scratches?
What % of cats bite or scratch humans?
What % of dogs bite or scratch people?

How many were the direct result of what the humans do/did to the animals FIRST? Just asshat people who do what appears to be an attack to the animal? They are the direct cause of getting bit.

And then scream about being attacked. Heck, I’d knock them silly if a stranger or family member did what I see hundreds of people do/have done to dogs & cats over my lifetime.

IMO, the human is the problem in 95% of the cases of bites from dogs.

And humans brought the dogs to the camps in the first place. Domesticated them and now humans have gotten so stupid and arrogant that they blame everything on the dogs.

Humans are the biggest asshats this planet has ever seen.

Lets do no education on people/dog interaction, the answer is to never let a dog be a dog. Must let the idiots do the harm with complete impunity. Control, control, control. Yet we can not even come close to controlling ourselves.

If people are so afraid of dogs and are unwilling to learn about them, they should go live where dogs are not allowed. I’d much rather have the dogs around than those kinds of people.

The parent who lets a small squealing child run up to a dog on a leash and then blames the dog when the kid gets a well deserved bite or knockdown. The parent is responsible, not the tied dog.

Kind of sad what fearful people do because they are to _____ to learn about what scares them.

Dogs: 30-40 a year.
http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-sta...fatalities.php

A note on sources. ‘Dogsbite’ is an extreme pro-breed specific legislation organization run by people with no qualifications in animal science or statistics and a completely unreliable source in general. Although in this case it would go against their general take on things to admit that it’s so rare for dogs to kill people.

Dogbitelaw is more upfront identifying itself as personal injury lawyers, who have their own self interested take on the severity of all kinds of dangers in society.

But just in general terms, and sticking to deaths for a moment, I don’t buy the logic that rare causes of death might nonetheless be really a big problem just because people aren’t even exposed to the possibility of them very often. That’s basically the wrong way around IMO, in context of a broad question ‘how can dog attacks be stopped’ strongly implying by the societal ‘we’. The measure of cost of dog bites in lives (again sticking with life/death cases) would the appropriate measure against the cost of things ‘we’ would do to reduce them, not the probability of being attacked by a dog given the relatively unusual case of having already encountered a ferocious one on the loose.

For injuries v deaths, obviously injuries are part of the problem too. However stats of injuries by dogs include huge numbers of minor cases, and a large proportion of people bitten by their own dogs, either adults or responsible age minors, even if you count serious dog bites to actually little kids as society’s responsibility to address. And the latter might be reasonable, but it would get back to that risk v bigger threats to little kids from irresponsible parents (which is what household or relative’s dog mauls little kid amounts to). And irresponsible human behavior is the root cause of all domestic animal problems. So in the big picture it’s always back to how you deal with people who let unfixed strong dogs run around, generally the same people who engage in all kinds of other negligent and anti-social behavior.

I’d grant that at the margin in some local cases there could be a positive trade off to devoting more public resources to enforcing dog licensing, containment and/or lease laws. But in general loose particularly unfixed dogs (unfixed male dogs are involved in something like 80%+ of actual human deaths due to dogs, not just ‘most’) or negligent supervision of kids v. dogs is one relatively small manifestation of a large class of people who don’t follow rules and behave irresponsibly. It’s an intractable problem with much larger manifestations than dogs.