Animal and Human Bites Animal and human bites may cause puncture
wounds, cuts, scrapes, or crushing injuries. Most animal and
human bites cause minor injuries, and home treatment is usually
all that is needed to care for the wound. Most animal bites
occur in school-age children. The face, hands, arms, and legs
are the most common sites for animal bites. Since most bites
occur in children, be sure to teach children to be careful
around animals and that an animal could hurt them. Young
children should always be supervised around animals. Dog bites
occur more than any other animal bite and are most frequent in
the summer months. The dog is usually known to the person, and
most injuries result from the dog being teased or bothered while
eating or sleeping. Boys are bitten about twice as often as
girls. The arms, head, and neck are the most likely areas to be
bitten in children. Cat bites usually cause deeper puncture
wounds than dog bites and have a high risk for bacterial
infection because they can be hard to cl