All news on the topic: Dangerous dogs

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has called an attack on an 11-year-old girl by an American XL Bully as "appalling" and has revealed she has commissioned urgent advice on banning the breed

Marie Stevens, 40, died after two vicious Rottweilers attacked her, biting her on the arms and legs, when she had tried to pet them in a park in Netherton, Liverpool

Vet Emma Chandley said that summer heat "lowers the thresholds for violence" in animals as a rise in reports of mauling by dangerous dogs has coincided with the spell of unseasonably hot weather

Stan Rawlinson says American Bully XL dogs are “wrongly wired” in the head and the expert, who has worked with dangerous animals for 20 years, added the breed was "evil" and “too dangerous” to live

Marie Stevens has been found dead weeks after the horror attack that saw two Rottweilers bite her arms and legs after she tried to pet them in the street in Netherton

A three-year-old boy suffered significant injuries in a "terrifying attack" by a dog which was seized and later humanely destroyed by Merseyside Police who made two arrests

Katie Deere was left covered in blood after pushing her daughter out of the way of a vicious bully XL Bully dog and taking on the full force of the attack in Askern, South Yorkshire

The 76-year-old mother was left fearing the worst when her daughter rang her to say she'd had a terrifying accident on her horse after it was chased by two dogs

A man and a schoolboy, aged ten, suffered injuries to their legs after they were attacked by an out of control dog described as a Pitbull in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

A spokesperson from Merseyside Police confirmed on Monday that the dog which injured the little girl was a Pit Bull breed - one of the four banned breeds in the UK

Michelle Hiscoke, 57, had only owned her Dobermann Harlow for two weeks when she took her muzzle off and let her out of the car because she was worried she was too hot

Witnesses have described seeing police marksmen shoot dead two dogs after they allegedly mauled a woman and her pet cockapoo in a horror attack in Oldham on Sunday

American XL Bully owner Dave Fakhr agreed tougher action was needed on dog owners taking them on, but stopped short of calling for the breed to be banned following a string of recent attacks

A three-year-old girl, said to be wearing 'pretty pink' had been enjoying playing outside at a pub in Kirby, Merseyside, when a dog bit her face, and she had to be rushed to hospital

Police said they attended the scene after receiving reports of a dog attacking another dog, with the owners of the pets taken to hospital after sustaining bite injuries

David Hughes, 26, has been banned from keeping dogs for five years after his two American XL Bullies attacked and killed 22 pregnant sheep and injured dozens more

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: Summer Morgan and her daughter Skylar were walking out of a shop in Nottingham when the dog, thought to have been a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, pounced

An 11-year-old boy living at his aunts house was playing with her 'therapy' dog, when the pup became overwhelmed and attacked him - sending him to the hospital with his injuries

Caio Lewis was playing with his two-year-old brother Jac when a French bulldog charged into the front garden of their dad's home in Carmarthenshire on Saturday evening

Jack Lis was killed in November 2021 in a horror attack by a seven stone XL bully named Beast which had to be destroyed at the scene, with Emma Whitfield talking of the tragedy

American Bully dogs are responsible for 73% of dog attack deaths since 2022, despite forming a tiny part of our canine population, and have already killed five people this year

Armani Costello offered her 'dangerously out of control' XL bully for breeding on social media, included a video on Instagram which appeared to show the dog's semen under a microscope

Campaigners have repeatedly called for tougher sentences on those found guilty of dangerous dog offences after an FOI has revealed just 12% received a jail sentence

Marie has launched a petition asking for dog-on-dog attacks to be made a specific offence after her husky was mauled on the beach by dangerous dogs

American pit bull terriers have been banned in the UK for more than 30 years and 15 people have died in horrific attacks across the country from the breed