The single breed reported as being most responsible for dog bites requiring hospital treatment in the UK is ‘the Spaniel’. As we know the Spaniel is not a single breed in it’s own right we must drill down that the minority Spaniels such as the Sussex, Clumber, Brittany, Irish Water, Welsh Springer etc are rarer, it is between the English Springer and Cocker Spaniels upon whom the finger of blame is being pointed.

We do know that the show-type, single coloured Cocker Spaniel does suffer from a hereditary condition called Fits of Rage Syndrome, which causes the animal to often bite its owner or other, normally trusted person. This, it could be reasoned, could play a part in the figures we are seeing from hospital records.

As an interesting aside, it is actually not the dog at all who is responsible for sending people to hospital for bite treatment. That dubious ‘honour’ goes to the Human. Yes, humans bite more people into requiring hospital treatment than dogs.

Another interesting UK dog bite fact, one that really should put into perspective the tragic issue of fatal dog bites, in the United Kingdom you are statistically more likely to be killed by lightning strike than by a dog attack.

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Extrapulated (un-official) Dog Bite Statistics Britain

Britain (United Kingdom)
221,583 people are suggested to be ‘dealing with dog bite’ out of a population of  60,270,708 at any one time.