Summers the Weather for Dog Bites
Researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo have announced that head and necked injuries caused by dog-bites increase in summer months.
The study was carried out using 84 children. the youngest child was 10 months and the eldest was 19, the average age was 6 years old. The study results show that children of 4 years or younger were more likely to be harmed. 27 percent of cases were related to family pets and most common breeds to cause harm were pit bull.
I always like to wonder about these studies. What the researchers are trying to suggest is that during the summer, dogs are more likely bite due to the heat.
My thoughts are that when it is -3° outside every day during the winter, you will either never see kids outside or when kids are outside they are so well wrapped up that a bus could hit them and they would just need to dust down any dirty and carry on what they are doing. Thus kids are more likely to wear less clothing during the summer.
Too be brutally honest this study is not a study, it just common sense. I mean if I had kids I would not have a dog that in any way is connected to fighting. Pit Bulls were bread to kill vermin and many years ago they were involved in dog fighting so why would you have one around young children.
SOURCE: Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, March 2009