{"id":578713,"date":"2025-11-18T17:34:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/578713\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:34:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:34:47","slug":"south-yorkshire-dog-owners-urged-to-control-pets-after-nearly-40-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/578713\/","title":{"rendered":"South Yorkshire dog owners urged to control pets after nearly 40 attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At least two of the incidents involved attacks on children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Thursday a seven-year-old, who was attacked in the face by a family Jack Russell in East Herringthorpe, Rotherham, required surgery to their lips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Tuesday a two-year-old was attacked by a neighbour&#8217;s pocket bully in Ecclesfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile police were called to a property in Bolton-Upon-Dearne at 05:00 GMT on Monday after a family dog, a pocket bully, savaged a man&#8217;s face, leaving him with life-altering injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers were called to the Fox Hill Road area of Sheffield on Thursday after a woman walking her dogs was aggressively approached and attacked by a loose Staffordshire bull terrier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The dog was captured by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson said: &#8220;These incidents are a stark reminder that such attacks are preventable &#8211; and that responsible dog ownership is not optional, it&#8217;s essential.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least two of the incidents involved attacks on children. On Thursday a seven-year-old, who was attacked in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-578713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115571911729513941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}