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Originally Posted by moon
To pretend that the risk is anything more than 0.00000001% is silly as well.
We all know you hate dogs so you have no ability to be rational on this topic but in terms of threats to a baby the dog is much. much lower on the list of things that are commonly found in a house.
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It's certainly more than that. The birth rate in the United states is about 4 million per year. Looking at the list I posted, lets say that an average of 4 infants are killed every year. So, 1 in 1 million babies are kiled by a dog. That's 0.0001%. That's
10,000 times your "to pretend its any more than" percentage. However, dog ownership is about 40%, so if we only count 40% of the babies born, i.e. 1.6 million, and take the percentage then, we have 0.00025%.
Still a small number, sure. 2.5 dog deaths per million babies born. That doesn't make it better for the handful a parents that have to deal with a dog that just killed their newborn.