This is the tactic that polititions try to use to shut down the argument about snake death vs. dog debate. The problem is that they include all dogs on there side and limit the snakes to 3 or 4 types. If you use only the large potntialy dangerous snakes to the large potentialy dangerous dogs it would be alot closer.
You cant count a toy dog if you are not going to count a king snake.
I am sure you could get a conservative estamate of snakes by looking at 3 years of import data and then doing a rough estamate of captive borns for 3 years. I would be fine with a conservative number on the snake side beacuse snake deaths are so rare 2 or 3 in 10 years and dog deaths are common 20 to 40 a year that statisticly dogs I am sure would come out much more dangerous.
Another factor is the one usualy killed by a snake is the owner and ocasionaly there child while a dog is either there child or an innocent stranger walking down the street or in there own yard. The piont is the dogs actively target go after the person.
Also what if we look at wild dangerous dog kills vs. wild dangerous snake kills, I think wild snakes would out number wild dogs a million to one but there are still probobly more wild dog kills that wild snake kills.
Another interesting thin is if a dog kills a child it gets only local news possibly a mention in national news but if it is a snake it is world news and and gets weeks of nationl coverage.
Rob

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