All news on the topic: Dog attacks

The owner of an XL Bully that attacked and killed an 84-year-old man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Police have arrested a 37-year-old man from the area on suspicion of being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control, causing injury resulting in death following the incident.

A child is believed to have died due to a dog bite in North Yorkshire.

A teenage girl was bitten on the face by a ’large black dog’ in North Staffordshire, with police on the hunt for the animal.

Jonte William Bluck was killed by his family’s pet XL Bully while staying with his dad in November last year, with an inquest into his death opened at Gwent Coroner’s Court on Monday

A baby boy who died in a dog attack in South Wales was killed by an XL bully, police have confirmed.

A nine-month-old baby has died after a dog attack in Wales.

Daniel Twigg, 3, died after being attacked at a farm in Rochdale back in May 2022.

A toddler has been rushed to hospital with "severe injuries" after she was attacked by a dog in her local park.

A 17-year-old girl is fighting for her life after a friend’s dog attacked her.

A five-year-old boy, who ended up in the hospital after being attacked by a "pocket bully," was told that it was his fault.

A ‘fighting dog’ ran from its drunk owner and viciously attacked a four-year-old boy.

A Nebraska mother has been accused of attempting to cover up a brutal dog attack that saw her four-year-old daughter's scalp nearly torn off by hiding bloody clothes from police

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES - Fay Hagger, of Ashford, Kent, is still traumatised after being bitten and dragged to the floor by her neighbours' pet, Mikey, and said the pain was worse than childbirth

An "XL Bully-type" dog was put down at the scene of an alleged attack as police swarmed Broughton Place, Coatbridge, in Scotland, on Thursday - with a woman, 30, arrested, Police Scotland have confirmed

An Alabama toddler was mauled to death by his neighbour's two dogs, which were kept in a pen outside in between the homes

Noah Wilson fought back the tears as he recalled the horrifying incident in Coventry this week in which he saw his dog get "eaten alive" while walking on their usual route

The can, named Canine Shield, emits a powder mist with a hissing sound for seven seconds and is designed to startle approaching dogs to allow time for people to get away

The dog attacked the child in Rochdale and left them with life-changing injuries. No-one has been arrested

Two men aged 36 and 23 were charged over the fatal attack in Lanarkshire but prosecutors are hoping that the dogs are signed over to them so they can be destroyed

Paolo Pasqualini, 39, was jogging in the woods when he came across the three Rottweilers - and was mauled to death as horrified witnesses were powerless to help

Merseyside Police have arrested a man and a woman after a boy, eight, was bitten by an XL Bully dog in Bootle and rushed to hospital with a serious head injury, as an investigation was launched

Cops confirmed they are investigating the incident which took place in Bothwell, Greater Glasgow on Friday morning and there is a suspicion it may have been an XL Bully-type hound

An interactive map has shown the locations of deadly dog attacks across the UK, with more than half caused by XL Bully Dogs, including Esther Martin in Essex last weekend

Metropolitan Police said the dog, thought to be an XL Bully, was not on the lead and was not wearing a muzzle at the time of the attack in Battersea, southwest London