All news on the topic: Dangerous dogs

If you don't follow the laws when it comes to owning a dog you could face a fine or even end up in prison

A 24-year-old man suffered life-changing facial injuries, police said, after he was violently mauled by a dog in Edinburgh yesterday evening but the animal and its owner have since vanished

A passer-by contacted animal rescue centre Linjoy Wildlife Sanctuary after spotting the mother swan sitting on her nest unable to move on Tuesday, May 2

Chelsey Colwill said that she had to "stamp" on a dog that was attacking her young son and his friend as though they were a "piece of meat" in Caerphilly, south Wales

Jucena Ali had been queuing outside a busy café in Cwmdonkin Park, Swansea, when she and her puppy were approached by another dog that bit her twice

Bernard Valentine pleaded guilty to five counts of owning a dog which caused injury whilst dangerously out of control in a public place. In a horrifying video of the attack her mum can be heard screaming

Dorset Police has issued a photograph of a man and woman restraining a dog moments after it allegedly bit a boy in the head as he played in a pub garden in Swanage

The number of savage dog attacks reported to the police has soared by 46 per cent in the last five years

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Paul Jennings and his wife Sasithon were walking on the pavement near the Kingston-upon-Thames town centre with their Beagle Cody when a massive German Shepherd lunged at them

Gwent Police were called to an address in Penyrheol, Caerphilly at about 9.10am today where a baby was rushed to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and a dog was seized

Controversial shock collars for dogs will be banned from early next year, sparing half a million dogs from the painful devices which inflict pain for up to 11 seconds

Anne Shields, 67, died four days after taking in a pitbull that she found starving. Police are now investigating the owner of the dog, who was not named but was described as a 35-year-old Spanish man

Gavin Stone had been out on his usual weekend walk with his 11-year-old Tibetan Terrier Rocky, in Wightwick, near Wolverhampton, when they were attacked by an XL Bully and a Rottweiler

A dog owner from north west London says he has been left with a £7,500 vet's bill after four-month-old puppy Max was attacked and left with a punctured lung by the two XL American Bully dogs

Ann Dunn, 65, was found collapsed with "catastrophic injuries" at her Liverpool home and it is likely that she was trying to break up a fight between two American bulldogs, an inquest heard

Gary Stevens appeared in court charged with being the person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control causing injury resulting in death, after his dog mauled and killed his younger brother Wayne Stevens at a home in Derby

Police have charged 53-year-old Gary Stevens after a man died in the dog attack in Derby on Saturday

Three-year-old Denis Jano suffered terrible injuries to his face and scalp after the XL bully clamped his head in its jaws as he played outside, but he was saved by neighbours WARNING: STORY CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES SOME READERS MAY FIND DISTURBING

One witness described the horrific scene in Walton, Liverpool, claiming the white dogs were in a 'frenzy' and 'red with blood'

Joanna Harris, 49, has told how a one-year-old American bulldog she was fostering from the RSPCA attacked her leading to such severe injuries that she needed to have her arm amputated

Police officers in South Yorkshire are appealing for witnesses after a pet dog was killed during a walk in Rotherham on Sunday. Tadi was reportedly attacked by black lurchers or bulldog crosses

A young boy in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, needed hospital treatment after he was injured in an XL bully dog attack. There were 21,918 recorded dog attacks in 2022 compared with 16,294 in 2018

Dog attack victim Simon Edge has shown off the serious injuries he suffered after being attacked by two out of control dogs which bit five other people in a rampage in Birmingham

Simon Edge was walking home in Birmingham when he was suddenly set upon by two large dogs, and was left with wounds to his lower back, arm and torso - and a young girl was also attacked

Simon Edge was among the six victims bitten by two dogs on the loose in Winson Green, Birmingham, earlier today and suffered injuries to his lower back, arm and torso