20:29 EDT, 3 August 2021
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Victims of dog attacks have reported up to three times as many cases during the Covid-19 pandemic, specialist lawyers have found.
Hospitals, police and lawyers have recorded huge surges in the number of dog attacks over the last year.
Figures reveal that reports of offences to police involving out-of-control dogs had already jumped by 50 per cent over four years to 14,478 incidents in 2019.
Victims of dog attacks have reported up to three times as many cases during the Covid-19 pandemic, specialist lawyers have found. Pictured: Eight-year-old Poppy who was savaged by a Staffordshire bull terrier
And over the course of the last year cases have risen by another 300 per cent, according to dog injury specialist lawyers.