Beware The Four-Legged Tripwire
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If you’ve have the misfortune of tripping over the cat or dog lately, you are not alone. Seems that these ‘four-legged tripwires’ are the cause of over 86,000 visits to the emergency room each year. That’s 240 people a day being treated for pet-related injuries.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report found that while cats are involved in some of the fall, the main culprit is man’s best friend, the dog. Seems that nearly 88% of all injuries were dog-related and females sustained injuries twice as often as males.
No mention, though, of how the pets fared in each of these accidents…
I sense a pet conspiracy here, and for once, dogs are the evil ones. Oh, wait, my cat, Zenzo, loves to race around the house, especially down the hall when I’m walking past. I swear that sometimes she’s intentionally trying to trip me! So far, no hospital visits, though.