It's true, everyone who owns a bully breed or a rott is a thug dog fighter, everyone who owns a parrot wants to be a pirate and everyone who owns a ball python gets his jollies from the trill of how dangerous they are.

Total # of snake bites annually in the U.S. (venomous AND HARMLESS, with less than 1/1000 being deadly)
8,000

Total # of reported dog bites annually in the U.S.
800,000, with over 1,000 per day ending up in emergency rooms (5th greatest cause of emergency visits in the U.S.)
*http://www.dogbitelaw.com/PAGES/statistics.html

Cats bite 1/170 people in the U.S. annually (765,000), with 80% of all bites becoming infected.

*http://www.thecatsite.com/Snips/120/...Cat-Bites.html