I've noticed something, reading the various articles that people post in the news forum, about the general way that people tend to react to various types of animal attacks.
I spend alot of time reading about predatory animals, and many of them are very capable and frequently do, attack and sometimes even kill a human being, just like dogs do and have done in the past.
My favourite example is the shark bite vs the dog bite.
In the instance of a shark bite, most people are swimming in the water midning there own business when all of the sudden they are bitten by a shark. Typically these are just exploratory and the shark will leave after that first bite, but not always. In any event you require lots of stitches and in some severe cases will loose a limb. Many of these victims instead of harboring ill will against the shark actually learn to respect the animal and start to learn new facts about them.
In the case of a dog bite you can equally just be walking down the street and get bitten by a dog. You need to get bit a fair number of times by a dog, unless it's a very large dog, before it will equal the damage done by a shark bite... accept instead of trying to learn more about dogs to try and understand what provoked the dog, people cry bloody murder and demand that the dog be put down.
This strikes me as being a bit odd for the following reason
In both cases the animal was just doing what it thought was right, in essences dogs will be dogs and sharks will be sharks.
The sharks bite is worse, but these days more people react with understanding then malice. The dogs bite is significantly less severe however we resort to banning various breeds.
Now of course the number of dog vs. shark bites is not exactly proportionate, being as there is less then 100 shark attacks every year(96 in 2006, 62 unprovoked and 34 provoked), and to get the number of dog bites you'd likely need to add 4 more 0's to that.
So I'm just wondering why you guys think that is that a predatory in the sea, garners more respect then mans supposed best friend, in terms of people being bit?
I spend alot of time reading about predatory animals, and many of them are very capable and frequently do, attack and sometimes even kill a human being, just like dogs do and have done in the past.
My favourite example is the shark bite vs the dog bite.
In the instance of a shark bite, most people are swimming in the water midning there own business when all of the sudden they are bitten by a shark. Typically these are just exploratory and the shark will leave after that first bite, but not always. In any event you require lots of stitches and in some severe cases will loose a limb. Many of these victims instead of harboring ill will against the shark actually learn to respect the animal and start to learn new facts about them.
In the case of a dog bite you can equally just be walking down the street and get bitten by a dog. You need to get bit a fair number of times by a dog, unless it's a very large dog, before it will equal the damage done by a shark bite... accept instead of trying to learn more about dogs to try and understand what provoked the dog, people cry bloody murder and demand that the dog be put down.
This strikes me as being a bit odd for the following reason
In both cases the animal was just doing what it thought was right, in essences dogs will be dogs and sharks will be sharks.
The sharks bite is worse, but these days more people react with understanding then malice. The dogs bite is significantly less severe however we resort to banning various breeds.
Now of course the number of dog vs. shark bites is not exactly proportionate, being as there is less then 100 shark attacks every year(96 in 2006, 62 unprovoked and 34 provoked), and to get the number of dog bites you'd likely need to add 4 more 0's to that.
So I'm just wondering why you guys think that is that a predatory in the sea, garners more respect then mans supposed best friend, in terms of people being bit?