Chamaram-me Safira: directamente da Safira para todos os que leêm o blogue da Safira

sábado, 1 de janeiro de 2011

directamente da Safira para todos os que leêm o blogue da Safira

2 comentários:

Tucha Maria disse...: um ano de 2011 também fabulástico para ti Safirocas e para toda a tua familia - de 2 e de 4 patas!!; 2 de janeiro de 2011 às 21:34
nadea disse...: Obrigada princesa! :)

Para ti, desejos de um Bom Ano, assim como para a Cláudia, Nuno, Joel, Jaime, e restante família animal ;); 13 de janeiro de 2011 às 16:10

Dogs Bite: But Balloons And Slippers Are More Dangerous.

Dogs are dangerous. And they are more dangerous to children than to adults. Not as dangerous of course, as kitchen utensils, drapery cords, five-gallon water buckets, horses, or cows. Not nearly as dangerous as playground equipment, swimming pools, skateboards, or bikes. And not remotely as dangerous as family, friends, guns, or cars.

Here’s the reality. Dogs almost never kill people. A child is more likely to die choking on a marble or a balloon, and an adult is more likely to die in a bedroom slipper related accident. Your chances of being killed by a dog are roughly one in 18 million. You are five times more likely to be killed by a bolt of lightning.

The supposed epidemic numbers of dog bites splashed across the media are absurdly inflated by dubious research and by counting bites that don’t actually hurt anyone. Even when dogs do injure people, the vast majority of injuries are at the Band-Aid level.

Dogs enhance the lives of millions more people than even the most inflated estimates of dog-bite victims. Infants who live with dogs have fewer allergies. People with dogs have less cardiovascular disease, better heart attack survival, and fewer backaches, headaches, and flu symptoms. Petting your dog lowers stress and people who live with dogs just plain feel better than people who don’t.

Yet lawmakers, litigators and insurers press for less dog ownership. This must stop. We must maintain perspective. Yes, dogs bite. But even party balloons and bedroom slippers are more dangerous.