Your pets are more dangerous than biking!*

According to the Trib. this AM, 86,000 people are injured by their pets each year, many tripping over them.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/la-na-pet-f...

45,000 bicyclist are injured every year according to http://bicycleuniverse.info/transpo/almanac-safety.html (scroll down to Non Fatal Injuries)

*Ah, statistics, MASSIVE DISCLAIMER: of course this doesn't work as a direct comparison, I suspect many more people own pets than bike regularly (what are the injuries per million miles of pet usage?), and then there's the sub-set of bicyclists who are pet owners and how often they get injured by a. there bike, b. their pet.
But, it does make you think a little.

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Permalink Reply by Anne on March 27, 2009 at 9:55am

My cat just fell into the toilet this morning.

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Permalink Reply by leftovers on March 27, 2009 at 11:30pm

my cat only hates on his tail.

my bike hates on my thigh.

neither have deliberately harmed me.

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Permalink Reply by T.C. O'Rourke on March 28, 2009 at 1:23am

I broke a tooth wrestling with my dog.

Not her fault tho'

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Permalink Reply by EevelWeezel on March 28, 2009 at 6:33pm

My bike has never given me Salmonella. Then again, neither has my turtle.

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Permalink Reply by cutifly on March 29, 2009 at 9:26am

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Permalink Reply by Gina Black on March 29, 2009 at 10:05am

One of my baby rats once mistook my finger for a lab block and gave me a nip that looked like a pin prck. Never happened again. I've been in the hosptal 4x and hospitalized 1x on my bike... but I guess I spend a lot more hands on time with the bike than the rats. I don't keep my bike in a cage.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on March 29, 2009 at 12:40pm

A friend told me a funny story a while back about a toilet splashdown. One of her cats was fascinated by watching her husband stand and pee. The cat decided to jump at the stream and splashed down into a toilet full of pee. The wave soaked his legs, the floor in the surrounding area, etc. She slammed the door shut and the two of them had to catch the wet cat and wash her in the tub before she could escape and spread pee all over the house. And they also had the fun of mopping the floor and wiping down the walls. Now that sounds like an entertaining evening - but only as a spectator. LOL

Anne said:

My cat just fell into the toilet this morning.

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Permalink Reply by cutifly on March 29, 2009 at 1:15pm

You know what the cat had to grab onto to get out of the toilet did you forget that part ?

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Permalink Reply by Julie Hochstadter on March 29, 2009 at 1:16pm

When i first got my kitten I stupidly fed him wet food from my hand - big mistake (had razor sharp baby teeth and was starving) . Had to spend the next 2 hours at the hospital and had to get a shot. It was worth it though, he is such a sweetie. -