I had all those statistics in mind. Thank you for your post.
I don't know why these creatures are still defended so vehemently.
And I had to deal with them early in my life. Some of my relatives had dogs. When we visited them, those damn beasts were extremely aggressive towards me. I was just a child then. They were loud and aggressive. I was afraid of them.
I didn't understand why they were like that, but even back then my instincts told me that these creatures were dangerous and that I didn't want them anywhere near me.
Besides, they stank.
After that, I was of course conditioned for years with the usual propaganda.
But I never really liked dogs. I always found them disgusting. It was more a social pressure that made me say that dogs are good.
Until a few years ago when I started looking into them more closely and did some thorough research. Since then, I know that my instincts didn't lie to me.