[vipbunter]

Consumer Alert: Children's Deaths Tied to Pet Doors

More than a hundred children have died or been seriously injured in the last decade after squeezing through tiny pet doors and getting into swimming pools or other dangerous places, new research has found.

Pet doors have led to the deaths of more than 100 children.

"What we see is a picture that's emerging which shows that the pet door is a really serious hazard in a home that no one has really had on the radar screen," said Sean Kane, of Safety Research and Strategies.
At the request of trial lawyers, Kane combed through hundreds of coroner's reports and media accounts.


"It's a very laborious task to get through the documents and the data and the connections to find these incidents," said Kane. "But I think at the end of this we're going to find hundreds of incidents."


Kane compared the issue with pet doors to the discovery of the pattern of children hurting themselves in cribs.


Millions of pet owners have installed the convenient devices, which allow cats and dogs to come and go at will. Some of the openings measure 8 by 11 inches, no bigger than a sheet of paper. More at link:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Amazin...7561260&page=1

[Escamsrasiush]

I saw this on GMA this morning, where a little boy got out through the doggie dog, and then drowned in the pool.