Reply To: Why don't jews have dogs? It is clear in the gemara and shulchan aruch that

pac man the number of cars is irrelevent. My comparison is between ONE PERSON who engages in the activity of either driving a car or crossing the street and his chances of getting hurt, something which most people do without a second thought, and ONE PERSON being around a dog for the time period of one year, and his chances of getting hurt.

I am pretty sure that you’ll find the former to be a lot more dangerous, yet you would still drive a car, and you would still cross the street. It follows logically that you would also not mind to own a dog, unless you let irrational fears get in the way

I am NOT trying to compare the number of people who got hurt in a car accident in any particular year, and the number of people who got hurt by a dog in that same year, which would be like comparing apples to oranges