Recently in Dog Bites Category

A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about a New York Times story reporting on an unexplained doubling of dog bites over the past fifteen years. The doubling was mysterious because dog ownership and the total number of dogs had increased only incrementally over the same period. Now comes a New York Post story exploring [...]

As reported by The New York Times, a new Department of Health and Human Services report reveals that the number of dog bites requiring hospitalization nearly doubled over a fifteen year period, increasing from 5,100 dog bite victims in 1993 to 9,500 in 2008. Experts are baffled by the dramatic spike. The increase can’t be [...]

This week is National Dog Bite Prevention Week. Why should you care? Each year, about 4.5 million people are bitten by dogs, one in five of those dog bite victims requires hospitalization and approximately 30,000 a year require some sort of reconstructive surgery. Children between the ages of five and nine are among the most [...]