Loki_The_Good said:
ecoho said:
just want to point out a few things to the dog hating person with no soul.....:
1.dogs only kill people when one of two things are done;
A. the person was stupid and pissed said dog off by pulling on its tail or otherwise hurting it. I do not weep for these people as less stupid people in the world is always a good thing.
B. it was train to attack anyone not its owner. This is the most common reason for dog related deaths.
2.a cat can and will kill small children for FOOD! they are know as ferial cats and are dangerous like you wouldn't believe.
Just to add to point 2 cats - regular house cats - are also known for smothering babies by lying on top of their heads because its war and also probably because they are evil. So I think cats are by far worse.
OK, I normally don't do this, but what the *bleep* are you guys talking about? Cats smothering babies? Hundreds of years old superstition with almost no basis in fact. [http://alphamom.com/parenting/baby/will-my-cat-smother-my-baby/]. Sure, its theoretically
possible but there's very little evidence for it. Back in 2009, the vice president of the ASPCA put it as
"I?ve never heard of a cat killing a baby,? said Schweiss, who conceded it could happen. ?Certainly there have been many instances of cats biting babies, scratching babies and that type of things, but unlike dogs that will sometimes attack and just keep attacking, cats will usually do a quick swipe and run off."
Feral cats can - on occasion (like, a handful of times a year) - attack people yes. But hunting babies for food? Give me one single citation on that, please. Half an hour on google turned up only about a half a dozen cases over the past several years of feral cat attacks worldwide, and several of those were provoked by the humans. And guess what? There's feral and wild dogs too, which are a lot more aggressive and dangerous than feral cats. There's more truth to "Dingoes ate my baby" then gangs of roving feral cats devouring children. (Now, if you're a bird, mouse, etc. then you need to be worried about feral cat attacks. But that's because birds and rodents are a cat's diet. Chipmunks are part of that diet too.)
As for dog attacks, The CDC puts it at 4.5 MILLION bites per year in the US alone, with half of those bitten being children [http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreationalSafety/Dog-Bites/]. Those attacks lead to 885000 hospital visits, 27000 reconstructive surgeries and about 30 deaths per year. Nearly 3/4 of those are getting bitten by a friend or family member's dog, not dogs attacking random strangers who aren't their owner. If you look at hospital admission figures, injuries from dogs account for more visits than every other animal combined. However much you may want to deny it, those are cold hard facts. Now, I'm not claiming that every dog is going to go on a biting spree, far from it. But anyone claiming that cats are more dangerous to people than dogs is just flat out wrong.