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.

An elderly woman has been left with serious injuries after a dog attack in Christchurch.

Darnell Mikaere Minarapa-Brown is waiting to see his mates again and getting ready to go back to school.

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.

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.

Two dogs have been put down after they seriously injured a man just days after a Bay of Plenty boy was critically injured in a dog attack.

People need to be left in no doubt about their responsibility to properly train and socialise their dogs.

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.

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.

A 7-year-old girl mauled by a dog at a neighbour's property while trick-or-treating on Halloween has returned home after two surgeries on her leg wounds.

Kiwis for Kiwi is running training sessions nationwide to condition hunting dogs against attacking our threatened national bird.

The Department of Conservation says it is still searching for the owner of a dog that killed a baby fur seal on an Auckland Beach last week.

Members of the public have helped to locate the owner of two dogs which fatally attacked a seal in Tairua on the Coromandel Peninsula on Monday.

A dog that attacked and dragged a 4-year-old boy around the backyard of his Auckland home will be put down.

The owners of four dogs which attacked a 7-year-old Japanese girl in Murupara are seeking diversion.