San Diego 11th on national list of dog attacks on mail carriers

On this record of disgrace, San Diego ranks No. 11. That’s not good, but it surely’s higher than it was once.

The U.S. Postal Service on Thursday issued its annual rating of cities with the best variety of reported canine bites sustained by postal carriers within the earlier calendar 12 months. San Diego and Columbus, Ohio tied at eleventh with 31 assaults every.

The Postal Service stated greater than 5,400 of its workers have been attacked by canines throughout the nation final 12 months.

“Final 12 months, many assaults reported by letter carriers got here from canines whose homeowners often said, ‘My canine received’t chunk,’” the company stated Thursday in a information launch asserting the rankings.

“Canine bites are completely preventable. One chunk is one too many.”

This annual record is designed to focus on the seriousness of the difficulty, and is usually launched round Nationwide Canine Chunk Consciousness Week, which this 12 months begins Sunday.

In recent times, San Diego’s highest variety of reported canine assaults on postal carriers occurred in 2011, with 67 assaults — rating behind solely Los Angeles, which had 83 assaults that 12 months.

For just a few years — rankings issued in 2011, 2012 and 2016 for assaults from the earlier 12 months — San Diego held the second place spot for the variety of canine assaults. The rank climbed and dropped a notch or two, however usually landed within the high 5 throughout that tough time span.

The assaults within the metropolis have dropped, now hovering on the backside of or simply outdoors the highest 10 record.

The Postal Service requested that when a letter provider arrives at a residence, canines ought to be inside or behind a fence, away from the door or in one other room or on a leash.