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Top “Dog Attack” cities in US

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The US Postal Service (USPS) has created a list of the top dog attack cities in cooperation with National Dog Bite Prevention Week. Read the complete article here and click “read more” to access the full list of cities.

 

 

 

Rank City State # of Bites
1 Houston TX 62
2 San Diego CA 45
3 Columbus OH 45
4 Los Angeles CA 44
5 Louisville KY 40
6 San Antonio TX 39
7 St. Louis MO 39
8 Cleveland OH 38
9 Phoenix AZ 38
10 Minneapolis MN 35
11 Portland OR 35
12 Denver CO 31
13 Philadelphia PA 31
14 Sacramento CA 30
15 Seattle WA 28
16 Baltimore MD 27
17 Milwaukee WI 26
18 Chicago IL 25
19 Cincinnatir OH 24
20 San Jose CA 23
21 Fort Worth TX 23
22 Buffalo NY 23
23 Memphis TN 22
24 Jacksonville FL 22
25 Miami FL 20
26 Detroit MI 20
27 Toledo OH 19
28 Oakland CA 18
29 Pittsburgh PA 18
30 Long Beach CA 17
31 Charlotte NC 17
32 Jamaica NY 17
33 Orland FL 17
34 Kansas MO 16
35 Indianopolis IN 16
36 Tacoma WA 16
37 Washington DC 16
38 Las Vegas NV 15
39 Stockton CA 15
40 Albuquerque NM 15
41 Flushing NY 15
42 Oklahoma City OK 15
43 Staten Island NY 14
44 Springfield MO 14
45 Huntington Beach CA 13
46 Brooklyn NY 12
47 Salt Lake City UT 12

To help educate the public about dog bites, the AVMA developed an online brochure:   www.avma.org/press/publichealth/dogbite/mediakit.asp. The AVMA also maintains a dog bite prevention facebook page.

The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.

A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation, 150 million residences, businesses and Post Office Boxes. The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. With 32,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, usps.com, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $67 billion and delivers nearly 40 percent of the world’s mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 29th in the 2010 Fortune 500. Black Enterprise and Hispanic Business magazines ranked the Postal Service as a leader in workforce diversity. The Postal Service has been named the Most Trusted Government Agency six consecutive years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.

National Dog Bite Prevention Week® is a registered trademark of the American Veterinary Medical Association and is licensed for use to the United States Postal Service, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons, and the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery.

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