This may sound like a rather mean comment, but
being a cat , I can tell you, it's
the truth. I mean there are a series of animals: badgers, snakes, goats, etc. who will bite people when given the chance. I have bitten a few myself, but it was provoked and warranted.
That's another story.
What is the point here is- why don't people go ahead and do the biting themselves, rather than having these brain damaged, scent addled animals in their houses and backyards? Dogs contribute little and destroy much; they are bottom feeders. If their role in the little world of human existence is to make noise and occasionally bark I am hardly impressed. Humans have a large array of machinery at their disposal that can do both of these functions with flair and with regularity. They have weapons of small and mass destruction and seem particulary keen at injuring themselves with relative ease. Their cars, boats and plane make enough racket to keep most of the rest of the species awake for hours on end. So the whole "I need a watchdog" thing doesn't hold water with me.
This leaves only the biting process. I do not get this. People hit each other, beat each other and run into each other, often with flair, and sometimes (based on what I can see on TV) in front of national audiences. I can't imagine that an occasional bite would be a big problem. Please don't talk to me about sanitary-I'm the one that shares a catboxroom with these folks, OK?