Boy, 4, seriously hurt after being mauled by dog

Police are investigating the assault within the Craiglea Highway space of Duntocher, Clydebank (Image: Google)

A four-year-old boy has been taken to hospital after being severely injured by an out-of-control canine.

The kid was mauled on Saturday night time in Clydebank in West Dunbartonshire, police in Scotland have revealed.

His accidents usually are not considered life threatening, however officers have launched an investigation into the assault, which befell within the Craiglea Highway space of Duntocher.

It comes after a two-year-old boy died in hospital two days after being mauled by a canine at a property in Egdon, Worcester, and struggling a cardiac arrest.

Police have since eliminated three rottweilers from the constructing however couldn't affirm what number of have been concerned within the assault.

Late final month an eight-year-old boy was rushed to Birmingham Youngsters’s Hospital after being bitten within the face by a canine in Cannock, Staffordshire, whereas a lady, aged six, damage her arm.

On March 21, an American bully XL – a authorized breed – mauled one-year-old Bella-Rae Birch at her residence in St Helens, Merseyside.

Undated family handout photo issued by Merseyside Police of Bella-Rae Birch who died after being attacked by a dog. Issue date: Tuesday March 22, 2022. PA Photo. The 17-month-old girl died in hospital from her injuries after emergency services were called to her home in the Blackbrook area of St Helens at 3.50pm on Monday, Merseyside Police said. See PA story POLICE Blackbrook. Photo credit should read: Family Handout/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
It comes after one-year-old Bella Rae-Birch was mauled to dying at her residence in St Helens, Merseyside (Image: PA)

Within the decade as much as 1991, 15 folks have been killed by canines, in line with the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics.

However prior to now 10 years that determine has risen to 32. In the meantime the Canine and Feline Behaviour Affiliation stories a 54% enhance in canine assaults from 2020 to 2021.

RSPCA canine specialist Dr Sam Gaines instructed the Solar that this could possibly be associated to ‘impulse buys’ over lockdown made by individuals who don’t essentially have the time and sources to correctly increase a canine.

She steered that the banned record of breeds may be lulling folks right into a false sense of safety, considering that some other forms of canine should be protected.

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