Cops issue warning after 13 horrific dog attacks in just 48hrs – including man left with face gashes & baby at risk

COPS person issued an urgent informing to canine owners to "step up earlier idiosyncratic dies" aft 13 horrific attacks successful little than 48 hours.

South Yorkshire Police said incidents of unsafe dogs included a antheral near with superior facial injuries and a pistillate fearing for her baby's safety.

The unit added that owners who did "not measurement up" and forestall harm would not beryllium tolerated.

It comes conscionable days aft a "wonderful" small girl, 10, was mauled to death by a XL Bully successful North Yorkshire.

Police said a antheral was attacked by his ain canine successful Sheffield connected Thursday astatine 3.22pm.

The American Bulldog had attacked erstwhile the proprietor attempted to abstracted the bulldog and a pouch bully wrong a property.

The proprietor suffered lacerations to his face, cervix and caput and was taken to hospital.

The canine was seized and remains successful constabulary kennels.

Further calls included a pistillate walking location with her babe successful a bearer connected her chest.

She was approached by a escaped XL Bully who began to amusement aggression and leap up to her baby.

Meanwhile an aged pistillate and her grandchild were attacked by different escaped canine successful Sheffield.

Chief Inspector Emma Cheney, starring the enactment connected unsafe dogs crossed South Yorkshire, said: "Recently we person sadly seen different fatal incidental successful the UK of a canine causing death.

"People deliberation it won't hap to them, that their canine won't origin harm, but it tin hap to anyone.

"Any canine tin origin fearfulness and harm and owners who bash not measurement up and forestall harm to our communities volition not beryllium tolerated.

"You are liable for your dog's actions, and we proceed to enactment radical earlier the courts."

South Yorkshire Police said the telephone outs presented a fiscal outgo to the unit and had the added outgo of the dogs' attraction portion a determination was made connected its future.

CI Cheney continued: "We lone person a constricted fig of resources, attending unsafe canine incidents takes officers distant from different calls.

"If each proprietor steps up and makes tiny changes, we tin marque a difference."

Shocking photos precocious showed a small girl's horrific injuries aft she was mauled by her household dog.

Police were called to a spot successful Sheffield connected October 25 aft reports that a young kid was attacked by a two-year-old Doberman.

The canine was laid connected the sofa and the miss tried to buss it but the carnal reacted and mauled the child's head.

Horrific photos of the small miss from aft the onslaught showed the broadside of her look and ears covered successful blood, and she was taken to infirmary wherever she required surgery.

The canine liable for causing wounded to the kid was seized by South Yorkshire Police officers and volition beryllium enactment to sleep.

Horrifying footage besides showed a antheral being attacked by a canine successful Sheffield.

The unit received reports of 2 dogs causing wounded to a antheral and a miss connected Dagnam Crescent connected September 29 conscionable aft 5pm.

It is alleged that the 2 dogs, believed to beryllium a Mastiff and a Cane Corso, had escaped from a spot connected the street.

A section nonmigratory saw the dogs and enactment 1 of them connected a lead.

As the antheral attempted to untangle the pb from 1 of the dog's legs, they some became reactive and started to attack.

The victim, 47, suffered heavy cuts and puncture wounds crossed his assemblage and was taken to infirmary via ambulance and required surgery.

A 2nd victim, 14, suffered insignificant injuries from attempting to intervene.

Upon officers' arrival, 1 canine had been tied to a lamppost.

The 2nd canine remained connected the escaped and continued to airs a hazard to the public.

Firearms officers secured the escaped Mastiff successful a plot but were incapable to safely incorporate it, and the determination to humanely destruct the canine astatine the country was taken.

A 21-year-old antheral was arrested connected suspicion of possession of a canine dangerously retired of power and obstructing a constabulary officer.

A 39-year-old pistillate was arrested connected suspicion of possession of a canine dangerously retired of control.

It comes a twelvemonth aft a mum fought disconnected an retired of power dog successful a hopeless effort to support her one-year-old daughter.

The pistillate was walking her canine connected Richmond Road, Sheffield, portion pushing her young kid connected a trike connected September 2, 2023.

Suddenly, a canine escaped its owner and approached them.

The dog, a Staffordshire bull terrier, began attacking the victim's dog, which required attraction from a vet.

The pistillate and her girl some suffered superficial injuries.

In different incidental a man was dragged into oncoming traffic during a ferocious canine attack.

The fearfulness unfolded arsenic the antheral appeared to effort to prevention his ain beloved favored - holding a tiny achromatic pooch supra his caput arsenic the hound leapt astatine him.

In the footage, helium fights disconnected the tan-coloured bull mastiff-type canine arsenic it latches onto his arm, earlier pulling him to the ground.

The antheral past struggles to get distant from the canine aft it dragged him into the roadworthy successful Sheffield.

As helium manages to get backmost to his feet, a BMW hatchback mounts the kerb successful what appears to beryllium an effort to mow the beast down.

Moments later, equipped constabulary swarmed the thoroughfare and the antheral was raced to infirmary with superior injuries.