Dog Satire, Humor, Pets
Bitten By a Dog and Didn’t Realize It?
A government program to help us identify dog bites?
Are you aware that it is National Dog Bite Awareness Week? Have you been bitten by a pit bull recently and not realized it? If so, this special week, brought to us by the U.S. Postal Service, is for you.
I was unaware that dog bites were hard to detect, but apparently, they are. There are no reliable statistics on how many people are bitten and how many of them were unaware of it.
The difficulty in tracking dog biting is obvious:
With an estimated population of nearly 85 million dogs living in U.S. households, millions of people — most of them children — are bitten by dogs every year.
Believe it or not, there is an organization named DogsBite.org. Its slogan is “Some Dogs Don’t Let Go.” The organization’s website is a dog bite data treasure trove worth a visit. But one data set you won’t find on the site is hard data on how many people get bitten each year. The reason must be that many of them were unaware of the bites and thus did not report being bitten.
