Posted on 06/04/2023 6:54:56 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
California and Texas ranked highest on the United States Postal Service’s annual list of states with the most dog bites against its employees, the USPS announced.
The report calls attention to the aggressive dog behavior mail carriers often face as the USPS kicks off National Dog Bite Awareness Week.
In 2022, California had the highest number of dog bites with 675. Texas and New York were not far behind with 404 and 321 bites, respectively, the Postal Service reported.
“When our mail carriers are bitten, it is usually a ‘good dog’ that had not previously behaved in a menacing way,” USPS Occupational Safety and Health Senior Director Linda DeCarlo said in a news release.
Houston, Los Angeles and Dallas ranked highest among US cities with the most dog attacks against USPS workers last year, according to the USPS.
More than 5,300 USPS employees were attacked by dogs during mail deliveries last year, according to the Postal Service.
The annual public service awareness campaign, accompanied by the hashtag #dogbiteawareness, runs through next week.
“When letter carriers deliver mail in our communities, dogs that are not secured or leashed can become a nemesis and unpredictable and attack,” Leeann Theriault, USPS employee safety and health awareness manager, said in the release.
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Best job I ever had.
Then it was like the book? Sicko. (j/k)
Should be:
The top ten in dog bites is basically the top ten in population.
Or it is the bad mailperson being mean to good dogs.
Don’t let your kids take the mail from postal workers or delivery people. A FedEx man kidnapped, molested and killed 7 year old Athena Strand in Texas last December. He was delivering a Christmas present for her. Evil sick monsters.
If you kick my dog, I’ll bite you if he doesn’t.
Not long after my wife and I were married we were visiting my mother who had this little chihuahua who was a nasty little beast. As soon as my mother left the room he run over and try to bite us. So when she left the room and he came over to bite her my wife gave him a good swift kick. He kept his distance after that.
Personally I like big dogs. At least 60 or 70 lbs
My sweet dachshund, Maxwell, who is now gone would have died for me. We were having a NY Eve party and this one guy was always referring to how “well endowed” he was, it was kind of a joke. So he was bragging and a female neighbor yelled, “we are sick of hearing about IT, let’s see what you got.” At which he unbuckled his trousers, unzipped. I ran to him and screamed, “NO don’t you dare”! MAX was immediately off the sofa and, ran about fifteen feet in seconds, leaped high enough to sink his teeth into his bare buttocks. To this day, he still has a scar and feels lucky Max came from behind rather than his front. Whatever he supposedly had would have been much smaller.
Meaningless. The 10 ten in bog bites is basically the top ten in population.“
How dare you post common sense and logic???
We live in a world where only selective information is allowed .
They tell me that temperatures are rising; but they leave out the fact that 10,000 homes with asphalt roofs have been built around the place where they measure temperatures.
But hey, it’s getting hotter so we HAVE A CRISIS.
Mail carriers - CARRY MILK-BONES.
Worked EVERY time for me. For years.
Back in the day the post office had a supply of revolvers that could be issued to postal workers that had problem dogs on their routes. Not my preferred solution, just the way it was.
+1
“No mention of breeds.”
Of dog owners or dogs?
Universal consensus is that Barbara Streisand’s bite cause the nastiest infection.
Vet told us, first bite is “free.” We had a German Shepherd who bit a neighbors friend. Only thing we could figure is his wife came out and our GS was protective of women & kids. Kenneled her for 10 days because of rabies protocol. Took her in to have her put down & vet said it was the right thing to do because if she bit a second person, now you’re dealing with a dangerous animal known to bite.
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