The trick is telling ahead of time when a dog is going to be agressive and when not.
Millions of people have grown up around dogs without ever being injured, or seeing an injury to a kid.
Millions more have been bitten and injured. What's your point? that some dogs don't bite? So what? Some do. The CDC estimtes that 4.6 million people are bitten annually - 800,000 seek medical treatment. There are FACTS.
“Millions more have been bitten and injured. What’s your point?”
Nope. First, 4.5 million supposedly bitten, but not bad enough to need medical treatment. If medical treatment wasn’t needed, then the dog wasn’t trying to harm anyone.
And how many of the 800,000 are for minor stuff? Ever been in an ER? People bring in kids for small scratches.
Now, how many dogs are there in America?
75 million.
Would I believe that 1 out of 75 dogs is not to be trusted around kids? Yep. And I’d believe that ratio (or worse) for adult male HUMANS...
But the overwhelming majority of dogs do NOT harm kids in any way. And the vast majority I’ve known over 50 years ADORE kids.
“The trick is telling ahead of time when a dog is going to be agressive and when not.”
Easy if you know dogs. Pretty hard if you wet yourself in fear every time you see something with four legs...