# $BITE · Animal bites in Dallas

Bites logged by Dallas Animal Services in a month, by the date of the bite: rows marked BITE in the city's Dog Bite Data file. Rows marked unverified, duplicate or anything else are not counted. The file has no column for the animal, so a bite by a cat or another animal counts too. Counted from January 2020, the first full year of the file.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Newest complete period | Oct 2026: 872 bites, score 0, Quiet |
| Source | City of Dallas, Dallas Animal Services, Dog Bite Data (https://www.dallasopendata.com/d/pe63-26ny) |
| Terms | Dallas OpenData Terms of Use: a legal agreement with the city covering the data and any work derived from it; no licence is named. |
| Cadence | Monthly. The city posts bites within a day or two; a month prints seven days after it ends. |
| Grade | display |
| Rulebook | Rulebook v0.2, 2026-10-04 |

## Settlement

Why this grade: Bites the city's officers log, not bites that happen: most never reach Animal Services. Shown, not settled on.
What it costs to move: Hard to move on purpose. A logged bite follows a call and an officer's report.
When the source is late: A month prints seven days after it ends. If the file stops updating, the month stays open. A month the city never posts is void.
Precision: Whole rows with bite_type BITE, by bite date.

## As first published, and the proof

Not on-chain yet. The newest complete period goes on-chain with the daily proof at 12:40 UTC.

## Last 30 complete periods

| Period | Level | Change | Band |
| --- | ---: | ---: | --- |
| Oct 2026 | 872 bites | -1.9% | Quiet |
| Sep 2026 | 889 bites | +7.2% | Quiet |
| Aug 2026 | 829 bites | -16.4% | Quiet |
| Jul 2026 | 992 bites | +1.3% | Quiet |
| Jun 2026 | 979 bites | -18.1% | Quiet |
| May 2026 | 1,195 bites | +16.6% | Normal |
| Apr 2026 | 1,025 bites | -5.7% | Quiet |
| Mar 2026 | 1,087 bites | +6.8% | Quiet |
| Feb 2026 | 1,018 bites | +12.0% | Quiet |
| Jan 2026 | 909 bites | -3.5% | Quiet |
| Dec 2025 | 942 bites | -10.5% | Quiet |
| Nov 2025 | 1,053 bites | -7.6% | Quiet |
| Oct 2025 | 1,139 bites | +39.8% | Normal |
| Sep 2025 | 815 bites | -11.2% | Quiet |
| Aug 2025 | 918 bites | +1.0% |  |
| Jul 2025 | 909 bites | -19.3% |  |
| Jun 2025 | 1,126 bites | -6.1% |  |
| May 2025 | 1,199 bites | +28.5% |  |
| Apr 2025 | 933 bites | -27.8% |  |
| Mar 2025 | 1,293 bites | +83.1% |  |
| Feb 2025 | 706 bites | -15.1% |  |
| Jan 2025 | 832 bites | +7.1% |  |
| Dec 2024 | 777 bites | -7.1% |  |
| Nov 2024 | 836 bites | -4.1% |  |
| Oct 2024 | 872 bites | +10.1% |  |
| Sep 2024 | 792 bites |  |  |

JSON: https://tickerz.com/api/indices/bite

## Asked often

**How many animal bites are reported in Dallas?** Dallas Animal Services logged 872 bites in Oct 2026, counted by Tickerz from the city's open data.

**Where does the $BITE number come from?** Tickerz reads it from City of Dallas, Dallas Animal Services, Dog Bite Data. Monthly. The city posts bites within a day or two; a month prints seven days after it ends. Each number is kept as it was first published, with a timestamped proof, and any later revision is shown beside it.

**Can I download the $BITE data?** Yes, free and with no key: the full history as JSON at https://tickerz.com/api/indices/bite and every period as CSV at https://tickerz.com/api/indices/bite/history.csv.

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