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National Dog Bite Prevention Week is next week, April 12-18. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), there are approximately 90 million dogs in the United States, and 45% of households have at least one dog. In 2023, liability claims for dog bite and dog-related injuries topped $1 billion. Not surprisingly, the states with the highest number of dog bite insurance claims are also the most populous states: New York, California, Texas, Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Georgia and New Jersey. Unfortunately, children are the most common victims of dog bite injuries. Clearly there is a need to do more to prevent this public health threat. The Schwarzman Animal Medical Center is here to help. In this blogpost, we’ll share tips on preventing and responding to bite injuries.

April 13-19, 2025 is National Dog Bite Prevention Week. This week aims to bring awareness to the fact that, although dogs are part of the family and provide companionship and immense joy, any dog can bite. National Dog Bite Prevention Week focuses on preventing dog bites to humans. Most dog bites occur in children, and most children are bitten by the family dog or dogs belonging to friends. The Schwarzman Animal Medical Center has resources for parents to help them educate and protect their children against bite injury. For National Dog Bite Prevention Week 2025, I thought I would focus my blogpost on a different type of bite injury – those sustained by dogs and cats from other dogs and cats.

National Dog Bite Prevention Week, April 11-17, 2021, calls attention to the dangers of dog bites. In 2017, 350,000 people visited emergency rooms because of a dog bite. Emergency room

I follow a lot of dogs, cats, birds and the Bronx Zoo Cobra on Twitter, so the recent bite incident involving Major Biden quickly filled up my Twitter feed. The

April 8-14, 2018 is National Dog Bite Prevention Week® sponsored by the National Dog Bite Prevention Coalition. Although any dog can bite, this post is based on recent research into the