>>Here is a link to the article.
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>>http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/os-boy-mauled-by-dog-in-ocala-20100220,0,6440922.story
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>>This is the THIRD dog related death that I am aware of that has happened here in Fl since Christmas. The first death involved a rotweiler in the New Port Richey area and the second death involved a weimereiner (how ever you spell it.)

At lesat they didn't call it a pit too. A lot of the time, any dog that attacks a human almost automatically gets labeled as a pit or pit mix....

I agree with you in general about dog attacks vs. python attacks. HOWEVER (you knew there had to be a "however", you also have to take into account that there are many many more dogs in "captivity" than there are large pythons.

Does anyone have good data relating to the numbers of "big 9" snakes currently in the US? It would be interesting to compare the relative risk of dog-related death to big-9-related death, but you'd have to know the population size to do it.
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0.1 Peruvian rainbow boa (Amaru)
2.0 Brazilian rainbow boas (TBA)
0.3 Honduran milksnakes (Chicchan, Chanir, Hari)
1.0 Thayeri kingsnake (TBA)
2.7 corns (Cetto, Tolosa, TBA)
1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters

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