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<\/p>\nI ranted a while ago when I saw a “funny photo” online of a dog that had been drawn all over by a child with markers.\u00a0 Basically I don’t think it is a brilliant idea to keep any animals in the house when you have a small child.\u00a0 Of course, I don’t understand people that kiss animals that eat their own vomit on the lips either, but that is a blog for another day.<\/p>\n
So, I was cruisin’ through facebook and I saw this:<\/p>\n
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Am I sympathetic for the little girl?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Her dad?\u00a0 Not so much.\u00a0 Congratulations, smart guy, you were right “lil’ binkie (or whatever its name was) wouldn’t hurt a fly, I’ve had her\/him my whole life!”\u00a0\u00a0 More of these stories need to get out into the mainstream media as I think this is a serious problem with parents.\u00a0 Sure, overall the percentage of maulings by family pets is probably really low.\u00a0 But if that is your daughter with staples in her head – you won’t care.\u00a0 If every millionth tickle me Elmo blew up nobody would buy a single Elmo.\u00a0 Actually, in 1996 just over a million Tickle Me Elmo dolls were sold.\u00a0 Two years before, almost 5 million Americans were bitten by dogs.\u00a0 The 2007 statistics were that 1 in every 50 Americans will be bitten by a dog.<\/p>\n
Keep in mind, this wasn’t even a visit from someone that the dog didn’t know, this was the owner’s daughter.\u00a0 I have another friend that has facebook photos of his bulldogs “guarding” his newborn.\u00a0 If I ever said anything I’m sure that would be seen as immensely offensive to the family, but my jaw dropped when I saw the photo.\u00a0\u00a0 Statistically\u00a0over 50 percent of bites occur on the dog owner’s property and the vast majority of biting dogs (77%) belong to the victim’s family or a friend.\u00a0 If everyone knew this I wonder if they’d still keep dogs around their children.\u00a0 If one Honda Accord out of every 50 sold blew up killing everyone inside Honda would be out of business in a hurry…..unless Honda’s were cute and you knew them since they were puppies.<\/p>\n
And yes, surely bite marks on a little girl’s head show us how great god is!\u00a0 I don’t understand the logic here.\u00a0 So god is going to heal your niece’s head… but he couldn’t just stop her from getting chomped on in the first place?\u00a0 Ah, but this is a post about the danger of animals with children, not the dangers of religion with humans (although that can also frequently result in degrees of child abuse as well).<\/p>\n
More information on the value of canine companionship for children here<\/a>, here, here,\u00a0here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I ranted a while ago when I saw a “funny photo” online of a dog that had been drawn all over by a child with markers.\u00a0 Basically I don’t think it is a brilliant idea to keep any animals in the house when you have a small child.\u00a0 Of course, I don’t understand people that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}