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Dog owners back in court over attack
The alleged owners of four dogs that savaged a 7-year-old girl in Murupara have reappeared in court.
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Dog victim's anger over new attack
A teenager savaged by a dog 11 years ago has spoken out about the frightening attack in Murupara, telling the 7-year-old Japanese victim to "just hold on".
Dog attack: No history of aggression
The four bull terrier crosses which attacked a 7-year-old girl in Murupara yesterday, leaving her in a critical condition, had no history of aggression.
Dog attack victim was due to fly home
The Japanese girl attacked by four dogs at a Murupara home was due to fly home with her family to Japan tomorrow.
Charge threat to dog victim
A babysitter attacked by a dog wants the Dog Control Act reviewed after she was threatened with prosecution.
Man's ear bitten off by dog called Tyson
A dog owner survived a savage attack in which his ear was bitten off by his pet... the somewhat aptly named Tyson.
Attack dog owners had been warned
Owners of two rottweilers who mauled an 8-year-old boy last weekend had been warned by animal control officers just days earlier to keep the dogs locked up.
Family want dogs put down after attack
The family of an 8-year-old Christchurch boy mauled and tossed in the air by two pet rottweilers want the animals put down.
Boy mauled by family dogs
An 8-year-old Christchurch boy was tossed in the air during a horror mauling at the weekend by his family's rottweilers.
Council seizes dogs after attack
Three dogs have been impounded following an attack in Kaitaia which left a 31-year-old man with bite wounds to his back, legs and feet.
Woman hospitalised after dogs attack
A Gisborne woman suffered serious facial injuries in what's been described as a "horrific" attack by two dogs.
Dog attack: Council yet to decide on pet's fate
A 5-year-old boy is in a stable condition in hospital after being bitten by a dog in south Auckland last night.
Boy, 5, bitten on face by family pit bull
A 5-year-old boy has been hospitalised after being bitten on the face by a pit bull, believed to be a family pet, in South Auckland.
Dog owner faces prosecution
The owner of a dog that ripped a large chunk of flesh from an elderly man's arm is to be prosecuted if the animal is not released to dog control officers.
Woman jailed over pitbull attack
A Rotorua woman has been sentenced to four months' jail after her pitbull attacked a toddler - "degloving'' the child's forehead.
Attack not the first for killer dogs
Two large dogs that mauled a pilates instructor to death have attacked before, police say.
Sentencing adjourned in dog attack case
Sentencing for Rotorua's Philomena Marcelle Matthews, 37, who has pleaded guilty to being the owner of a pitbull that attacked a toddler causing serious injuries, has been adjourned.