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Editorial: Dog ownership carries heavy duty of care

Some owners will attest that their pet is as placid as any canine breed can be, but that is not saying very much. Many an owner of a normally docile dog knows it is not completely reliable.

Raybon Kan: Too many excuses for vicious dogs

COMMENT: You say your dangerous dog is a teddy bear? I say you're wrong, writes Raybon Kan.

Expert: Hit owners hard when dogs attack

Professor believes those who keep canine killers deserve to face manslaughter count.

Watch: Dog attack victim stands his ground

Lorenzo Shoemark knew he was about to be attacked by his best friend's dog, so the 10-year-old did what his mum had always taught him -- he stood his ground.

Dog attacks worst in city's south

Dog attacks make up nearly three-quarters of the total convictions for dog-control related offences in New Zealand courts since 2010.

Dogs, bugs and birds attack posties

Mail staff have been attacked 1150 times in three years - by all manner of creatures.

Attack dogs set on HNZ meth tester

A man employed to test a HNZ property for meth ended up in hospital with severe wounds after being shut in the house's kitchen with two vicious dogs.

Elderly couple attacked by pit bull

An elderly couple have been attacked - and their pet Bichon dog killed - by a loose pit bull in Mt Maunganui this morning.

Dogs put down after latest attack

Two dogs have been put down after they seriously injured a man just days after a Bay of Plenty boy was critically injured in a dog attack.

SPCA boss in hot water

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.

Dog attack: 'Don't call me a hero'

"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.

Hero neighbour fights off attacking dogs

A heroic neighbour fought off a pair of bull mastiff-cross dogs mauling two women out for a walk in South Invercargill this afternoon.

Dog owners 'distraught' over boy's bite

The owners of two dogs that mauled a 3-year-old boy in Queenstown this week are ''distraught'', his mother says.

Policeman injured in dog attack 'in good spirits'

Policeman still in hospital after dog attack

Girl home after Halloween dog attack

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.

Training session for dogs help save kiwi from attack

Kiwis for Kiwi is running training sessions nationwide to condition hunting dogs against attacking our threatened national bird.

Search for seal-killing dog continues

The Department of Conservation says it is still searching for the owner of a dog that killed a baby fur seal on an Auckland Beach last week.