“Dogs killing children is not common, but dogs injuring children severely enough to require the services of a plastic surgeos is a very common event. “
So common that I’ve never seen it happen.
Had dogs as a little kid. My kids were raised around dogs, and my grandkids are now. Not a mark on anyone.
A great many dogs consider kids something to protect at all cost, not something to attack.
At a year old, kids need constant supervision for everything. They also need to be taught how to interact with dogs, and the dogs need to be monitored for aggression. But done right, dogs provide kids constant, devoted friendship - just as they do adults.
Well then of course if YOU haven't seen it it can't be common. Let me refer you to this link to hopefully ameloriate your ignorance on the subject. You can also google on the number of ER visits caused annually by dogs.
The most common “issue” that Dobermann owners have, when a new baby arrives in the family is that the formerly loyal-to-the-parents dog will abandon them and station itself in the nursery to ‘guard’ the new baby.
If I’d been able to have kids, they would have grown up with Dobermanns.
Of course YOU haven’t seen it. I bet you haven’t seen the 7 million people who were killed or deformed by Chernobyl either, but it happened to THEM. It is the height of ignorance to make a statement about one’s own limited experiences as a dismissive of fact.