No.

Dogs attack more people because there are a lot more dogs and they live in much closer contact with people. (And, in many cases, they have been trained by their owners to attack.)

I wouldn’t advise people to approach stray dogs on the road. But it is much, much more dangerous to approach a bear that is begging for food, as they used to do in places like Yellowstone Park. They used to have bear maulings there every year, too. Whereas my daughter picked up a stray dog off the road and kept him in a home with children for nine years, without his causing a single human injury.

It’s true you’re more likely to get attacked by a dog than by a bear, but that doesn’t mean bears are ‘safer’ in any way.

oops, forgot mosquitoes.

but they don’t mug you or kill you.

(at least not very often)

You left mosquitos off the list.

I moved to the Twin Cities from Chicago for work, and you know where they don’t have hurricanes, earthquakes, killer bees etc OR rattle snakes, cougars, and packs of wolves? Chicago. Also they have public transportation so you can go out for a drink now and then without a designated driver.

(But I guess the proper response to that is: “But Chicago is rife with that most dangerous of animals — Man!” Crime rates, etc. Still, given the choice between a mugging every eight years and dozens of mosquito bites every year… Well, I think I’d pick the muggings.)

the only dangerousy type animals i can think of are:

rattle snakes..
moose.
black bear.
occasional cougar.
a pack of wolves.

But scorpions are a different matter. I have been stung twice by our small, brown scorpions. Once was while I was reclining on the sofa watching TV. It fell from a beam and landed directly between my legs and stung me, presumably out of embarrassment. The second time was when I rolled over in bed onto one that was under the sheet. So they will seek you out to sting you, and if you hide in bed, they will go there, too. There is no way to avoid the sting of the scorpio! Of course neither sting was quite as bad as a typical bee sting, or anywhere near as bad as a wasp sting. Or a fire ant. But I did check between the sheets for quite a while after that.