{"id":207792,"date":"2026-09-13T16:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/207792\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:05:09","slug":"toronto-woman-arrested-after-dogs-attack-person-dog-in-midtown-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/207792\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto woman arrested after dogs attack person, dog in midtown park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A woman has been arrested after police say her two dogs attacked a person and their dog near a midtown Toronto park on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/article\/woman-wanted-following-dog-attack-in-midtown-toronto\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/article\/woman-wanted-following-dog-attack-in-midtown-toronto\/\">Police say they were notified Saturday<\/a> after receiving reports of the attack, which took place at a park near Avenue Road and Roxborough Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim was walking their dog near an off-leash fenced area of the park when the suspect\u2019s two dogs escaped the enclosure, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The dogs, believed to be large breeds of pit bull or bull terrier, then charged and attacked the victim as well as their dog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries while their dog sustained life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Sunday, police arrested Tanychia Black, 40, of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She was charged with multiple offences, including criminal negligence causing bodily harm, two counts of fail to prevent dog from biting or attacking under the Dog Owners\u2019 Liability Act, two counts of dog bite a person or domestic animal under the Dog Owners\u2019 Liability Act and obstruct peace officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The charges have not been proven in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say the two dogs involved in the attack have not been located. Police are asking anyone with information on the whereabouts of the dogs to contact investigators or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIf the dogs are seen, use caution and do not approach,\u201d police said in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66894\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66894\/\"> a news release.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files from CTV News\u2019 Bryann Aguilar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been arrested after police say her two dogs attacked a person and their dog near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[147,48],"class_list":["post-207792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}