A girl has been arrested on suspicion of utilizing her mastiff-type canine to “trigger concern and hurt” to a person.
South Yorkshire Police stated the pet was one in all two dogs seized on Thursday.
The 37-year-old girl was detained on suspicion of offences below the Dangerous Dogs Act after officers went to Harlington Crescent in Denaby Main, close to Doncaster, at 22:20 BST.
Eight minutes later the pressure acquired a separate report of an American bully XL attacking one other canine in Sheffield.
The bully XL is believed to have escaped from its proprietor’s home in Laburnum Grove.
A spokesperson stated the proprietor, who was walking their “harmless canine” alongside the road, suffered vital accidents and wanted hospital therapy after they tried to intervene.
The pressure urged homeowners to be accountable and for folks to grasp the “danger harmful dogs pose” to everybody.
Dog Legislation Officer PC Paul Jameson stated: “We’re persevering with to see a rise in incidents involving dogs being uncontrolled, or inflicting concern, and with out motion, and we concern it is just a matter of time till we expertise one other fatality inside South Yorkshire.
“We’re urging canine homeowners of all breeds to up their efforts in conserving everybody secure. Please cease pondering ‘my canine would not try this’, ‘my canine would not chunk my little one’. This can occur to anybody.
“During this month, we’ve got already seen a number of kids requiring hospital therapy for assaults by their very own household pets, harmless canine walkers being left with critical accidents by unfastened dogs and officers struggling damage throughout their response.”
Mr Jameson stated regardless of an increase in incidents, officers discovered “many victims” not supporting police investigations and prosecutions, and despatched reassurances that not all seized dogs can be put down.
“If there isn’t a danger to the general public, the place doable we work with the proprietor, alongside charities, together with the Blue Cross, to refer homeowners onto a accountable canine possession course and put measures in place to cut back danger,” he stated.
“Of the dogs we seize, we take into accounts the rationale why it has been delivered to our consideration and, the place doable, work with charities and rehoming centres.”