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More Than 3,000 Mail Carriers Bitten

More Than 3,000 Mail Carriers Bitten By Dogs Last Year; New York City Best Place to Avoid Them
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

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WASHINGTON — For a mail carrier looking to escape dog bites, New York City is the place to go, and California is the place to avoid.
The New York metropolitan area recorded no dog bites of letter carriers last year.
At the other end of the scale, the Santa Ana, Calif., area led the nation with 96 bitten carriers, and three of the top five spots for carriers to get bitten were in the Golden State.
That doesn't surprise Juan Barrios, a carrier in Long Beach, who needed 50 stitches on the right side of his face after being attacked by three dogs in 2001.
"I fought off two but one got in a lucky bite," Barrios said in a telephone interview.
"Unfortunately, the customers think because the dogs are docile to them, they will be docile to everybody else," said Barrios, who nearly lost an eye in the attack.
"Every animal needs to be protective, but its up to the customers to keep them trained," he added. "Here in California they just seem not to do it."
Some customers try to introduce their dogs to the regular carrier, but that still leaves the substitute carrier vulnerable, he noted.

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