A seven-year-old girl has been mauled by a ‘XL bully’ dog while playing in a park in Merseyside.
The youngster was raced to hospital after the attack just before 8.30pm on Monday.
Merseyside Police say officers were called to Gorsedale Park, in Wallasey following a report that the dog had bitten the child. She suffered bite marks to her legs and injuries to her head in the ‘horrific attack’.
The dog, believed to be an XL Bully breed, which is not a banned breed, was seized by officers and efforts to locate the owner are ongoing.
A number of witnesses have also been spoken to but police are now appealing for further witnesses to come forward and for anyone with footage that may assist enquiries to contact police. House-to-house enquiries have also been carried out in the area and all CCTV opportunities are being explored.
Detective Inspector Emma Kerrigan said: “This was a horrific attack which has left a young girl receiving hospital treatment for injuries to her head and legs. I want to reassure people that she received the best possible care and treatment for her injuries, and we hope she makes a speedy recovery now she is home.
“We have seized the dog and extensive efforts are underway to establish exactly what happened and to find the owner. I want to appeal to anyone who was in the area at the time of the incident, who may have information which could help us with our investigation to come forward as soon as possible.
“You may even live locally and have CCTV, or have been passing in a vehicle and captured dashcam footage – if so, we want to hear from you. This case highlights in the starkest terms the potential dangers of dogs, and I would appeal to anyone with information about dangerous dogs in their area to contact us so that we can take pro-active action.”
How many more people need to be injured or kill before we ban these?
I’m normally one to avoid hysteria on topics like this, but it does seem to be increasingly clear that this breed of dog and (frankly) coupled with the sort of irresponsible owner they unfortunately seem to attract is creating danger for people and other dogs. There needs to be something done.
>I was recently out to popular kids play area with my 2 some dickhead decided to bring 2 of his XL Bullies to the are and they just ran havoc around. No lead no muzzle or anything with kids that are half a size of that thing. We packed up and left. Next time I think I will be calling police having such dog on a loose should be treated as criminal offence.
It’s not like you can even tell those assholes off because there are 2 fucking killing machines next to them.
My kids are told everytime if they see this type of dog they leave park immediately I am not risking it.
Even if dog is not biting 60kg dog running into 16kg heavy toddler can do life changing damage.
Dog licences should be implemented, and anyone with history of being a twat shouldn’t be allowed to own one. Plus this bread need banning. I see tones of this dogs now it’s like they are more popular than ever
The absolute state of the moderators on this sub – XL bullies are considered too controversial so discussion is automatically stifled by the mods. Ridiculous.
This is one of the rare examples where a non-fatal attack is publicised. These dogs cause untold damage daily – they kill and injure other pets on a very, very regular basis but that doesn’t make the news.
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A seven-year-old girl has been mauled by a ‘XL bully’ dog while playing in a park in Merseyside.
The youngster was raced to hospital after the attack just before 8.30pm on Monday.
Merseyside Police say officers were called to Gorsedale Park, in Wallasey following a report that the dog had bitten the child. She suffered bite marks to her legs and injuries to her head in the ‘horrific attack’.
The dog, believed to be an XL Bully breed, which is not a banned breed, was seized by officers and efforts to locate the owner are ongoing.
A number of witnesses have also been spoken to but police are now appealing for further witnesses to come forward and for anyone with footage that may assist enquiries to contact police. House-to-house enquiries have also been carried out in the area and all CCTV opportunities are being explored.
Detective Inspector Emma Kerrigan said: “This was a horrific attack which has left a young girl receiving hospital treatment for injuries to her head and legs. I want to reassure people that she received the best possible care and treatment for her injuries, and we hope she makes a speedy recovery now she is home.
“We have seized the dog and extensive efforts are underway to establish exactly what happened and to find the owner. I want to appeal to anyone who was in the area at the time of the incident, who may have information which could help us with our investigation to come forward as soon as possible.
“You may even live locally and have CCTV, or have been passing in a vehicle and captured dashcam footage – if so, we want to hear from you. This case highlights in the starkest terms the potential dangers of dogs, and I would appeal to anyone with information about dangerous dogs in their area to contact us so that we can take pro-active action.”
How many more people need to be injured or kill before we ban these?
I’m normally one to avoid hysteria on topics like this, but it does seem to be increasingly clear that this breed of dog and (frankly) coupled with the sort of irresponsible owner they unfortunately seem to attract is creating danger for people and other dogs. There needs to be something done.
>I was recently out to popular kids play area with my 2 some dickhead decided to bring 2 of his XL Bullies to the are and they just ran havoc around. No lead no muzzle or anything with kids that are half a size of that thing. We packed up and left. Next time I think I will be calling police having such dog on a loose should be treated as criminal offence.
It’s not like you can even tell those assholes off because there are 2 fucking killing machines next to them.
My kids are told everytime if they see this type of dog they leave park immediately I am not risking it.
Even if dog is not biting 60kg dog running into 16kg heavy toddler can do life changing damage.
Dog licences should be implemented, and anyone with history of being a twat shouldn’t be allowed to own one. Plus this bread need banning. I see tones of this dogs now it’s like they are more popular than ever
The absolute state of the moderators on this sub – XL bullies are considered too controversial so discussion is automatically stifled by the mods. Ridiculous.
This is one of the rare examples where a non-fatal attack is publicised. These dogs cause untold damage daily – they kill and injure other pets on a very, very regular basis but that doesn’t make the news.