The Government's latest move to crack down on dangerous dogs is commendable and some will say well over due.

A police dog latched on to the leg of a man involved in a Dunedin arrest but the patrolling pooch ended up sending one of the boys in blue to hospital.

A_JS251016NADBITE034.JPG The dog that attacked 6-year-old Tyree Walters will be returned to its owners. PHOTO/JOHN STONE By Mikaela

A loud crash outside the front door told Dargaville farmer Vern Suckling that something was going on outside his home. It turned

The number of dog-bite patients discharged from hospitals around the country has increased 58 per cent over the past 10 years.

Two police officers are being lauded for "pawsing" a dog attack today when greyhound went after a small paperanian named Prince.

A 43-year-old man is facing charges after a group dog attack in Gisborne put a young boy in hospital with head and leg injuries.

The 5-year-old boy hospitalised after being attacked by four dogs will be going home today, a Gisborne hospital spokeswoman confirmed.

Baby girl bitten in face by family pet in Dunedin yesterday 'progressing favourably' in hospital.

COMMENT: I have a pathological reaction to bullies like Wiremu Perry. You have to stand up to all thugs or they'll run right over you.

Some owners will attest that their pet is as placid as any canine breed can be, but that is not saying very much. Many an owner of a normally docile dog knows it is not completely reliable.

COMMENT: You say your dangerous dog is a teddy bear? I say you're wrong, writes Raybon Kan.

Professor believes those who keep canine killers deserve to face manslaughter count.

Lorenzo Shoemark knew he was about to be attacked by his best friend's dog, so the 10-year-old did what his mum had always taught him -- he stood his ground.

Dog attacks make up nearly three-quarters of the total convictions for dog-control related offences in New Zealand courts since 2010.

Mail staff have been attacked 1150 times in three years - by all manner of creatures.

A man employed to test a HNZ property for meth ended up in hospital with severe wounds after being shut in the house's kitchen with two vicious dogs.

An elderly couple have been attacked - and their pet Bichon dog killed - by a loose pit bull in Mt Maunganui this morning.

Unleashed dogs are roaming popular Auckland beach and owners are to blame, say residents after reports of savage attack on ex-Shortland Street star Kirstie O'Sullivan.

Kirstie O'Sullivan, best known as villainous nurse Robyn Stokes on the soap opera, fears for children on Auckland beach after an unleashed dog savaged her leg and bottom.

Research has found injuries from dog bites are an escalating problem for New Zealand.

A family dog reportedly stabbed during a burglary was actually injured while fighting another dog, police say.

The owner of the dogs that mauled a Japanese girl in Murupara was not home during the attack and there was "nothing he could have done" to prevent it, a court has heard.

A fledgling Kaka was mauled to death by a dog in the Wellington region resulting in a plea from park staff to the public to keep their dogs on a leash.

A man whose dog attacked and killed a protected New Zealand fur seal pup on a West Auckland beach has been fined $1000 and will have his dog put down.

The executive director of SPCA Auckland has stood by his comments that ethnicity plays a part in the high number of dog attack convictions in South Auckland.

"I just wanted to help those innocent ladies," says a 76-year-old man who used a pick axe handle to drive off two large dogs attacking two women.

A heroic neighbour fought off a pair of bull mastiff-cross dogs mauling two women out for a walk in South Invercargill this afternoon.

The owners of two dogs that mauled a 3-year-old boy in Queenstown this week are ''distraught'', his mother says.