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.

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.

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.

The alleged owners of four dogs that savaged a 7-year-old girl in Murupara have reappeared in court.

A Whitianga woman is considering taking the fight for her beloved dog to the High Court after it was sentenced to death.

The owners of four dogs that attacked a 7-year-old girl in Murupara can finally be named.

Emotions are running high in Kumara on the West Coast after at least 21 chickens were killed by a marauding dog.

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".

A babysitter attacked by a dog wants the Dog Control Act reviewed after she was threatened with prosecution.

A dog owner survived a savage attack in which his ear was bitten off by his pet... the somewhat aptly named Tyson.

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.

The family of an 8-year-old Christchurch boy mauled and tossed in the air by two pet rottweilers want the animals put down.

An 8-year-old Christchurch boy was tossed in the air during a horror mauling at the weekend by his family's rottweilers.

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.