The first responce up to this one a few times.
I agree, you are far more likely to be injured, bit, and need professional medical care from an encounter with a dog, thats true, I agree completely. I myself have a medium sized dog, a very very very powerful breed of dog that is according to the CDC, a danger to toddlers and small children, or rather according to their mixed up dog bite surveys.
The average person who gets bit by a monitor gets bit by young small monitors, not by one of adult size, but it can happen, and does. If you get bit by a dog seriously you face a different type of injury than most large monitor species, they have a different method of biting. But to compare bite force alone, the monitor of similar size will do some serious crushing damage, the dog wont.
Check for yourself, all dog breeds have the same skull, just a different size, the flesh and cartilage around is what is different from one to another. Determining factors of species with canines, skull shape, tooth size, etc. Therefore no breed of dog can have an advantage in jaw pressure by design from one to another, this was the point in mentioning it. The advantage proven in jaw pressure so far has been to jaw size, and leverage.
By all means, I myself like dogs, I like to look at what has been proven by the CDC survey as to prevent bites on people, that is such small numbers occured with dogs on leashes, tied out, or under direct control of their owner. What this means is irresponsible ownership, not the dogs fault. In fact Ive had far more close calls with dogs in my life than with reptiles at all, yet Ive only ever had one dog, again, irresponsible ownership, a few bites also.

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