According to a recent study, cats and dogs are trying to trip you. In fact, they are responsible for 86,000 falls every year, and that number is only expected to rise.
Pets are making Americans fall because they dash in front of our legs as we are walking, sometimes down the stairs. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, if you own a dog, you are far more likely to fall than if you own a cat, and roughly 20 times more likely to fall than if you own a goldfish.
So far, no one is known to have been killed in such falls, just some broken bones, cuts, sprains, buildings, etc. But you know they’ll keep trying.