Dog Bite News Articles – Dog Attacks in Pennsylvania
Filed under Dog Bites, Dog Statistics on January 19, 2011
Above, Chow-Chow dogs may look cuddly but they rank high among dog breeds that most often attack humans.
Dogs that are on their own property – especially when chained, are more likely to attack people. Dog bite statistics shows that chaining a dog seems to increase the likelihood of it biting a human.
All dogs that are chained should be considered potentially dangerous.
2002 – PA Dog Attacks on Humans
- February 2002: Two pit bulls attack and injure a 9-year-old boy. Full Article
2003 – PA Dog Attacks on Humans
- July 2003: Three young children are severely mauled by two pit bull dogs. Full Article
- November 2003: A woman is severely injured after a dog broke through her front screen door and attacked her in her own home. Full Article
2004 – PA Dog Attacks on Humans
- April 2004: A 12-year-old girl walking to a neighbor’s house was attacked by two pit bulls that knocked her to the ground biting to the bone and left six severe lacerations. Full Article
- April 2004: 12-year-old girl survives a serious pit bull attack when another dog and a neighbor come to her aid. Full Article
- August 2004: A 9-year-old girl is attacked by a chained German Shepherd-Sharpei mix dog. Full Article
- November 2004: A couple is charged after their Chow-Sharpei mix attacked a 3-year-old girl. Full Article
2005 – PA Dog Attacks on Humans
- January 2005: Two pit bulls chase teenaged girl; one attacks and bites. Full Article
2006 – PA Dog Attacks on Humans
- October 2006: A 2 1/2-year-old Rostraver Township girl was flown to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh after she was attacked by a dog in her backyard. Full Article
- November 2006: A woman is attacked by her own pit bull. Full Article
2007 – PA Dog Attacks on Humans
- April 2007: Two pit bulls escape, kill one dog and seriously injure another. Full Article
- April 2007: Pit bull attacks for the second time injuring another dog. Full Article
- May 2007: Pit bull attacks an elderly man in Brackenridge. Full Article
- May 2007: During the first 4 months of 2007, 45 postal workers had already been bitten by dogs. Full Article
2008 – PA Dog Attacks on Humans
- June 2008: Man attacked by American Staffordshire Bull Terrier. Full Article
- July 2008: A 14-month-old girl from Erie County died after being attacked by the family dog in a cemetery caretaker’s cottage in Millcreek Township. Full Article
- December 2008: Pit bull shot after it attacks man and a teenager. Full Article
2009 – PA Dog Attacks on Humans
- May 2009: A pit bull severely injured the 2-year-old son of Pittsburgh Steelers’ James Harris at his Franklin Park home. Full Article
- January 2009: A 70-year-old man fends off two pit bulls in his yard with a shot gun after the attack and kill his pet dog. Full Article
- September 2008: An American Stafford pit bull terrier that injured three people in West Brownsville. Full Article
- September 2009: Two Pennsylvania men injured in an attack by four pit bulls in Larimer. Full Article
- September 2009: Woman bitten by loose pit bull. Full Article
- September 2009: A Jeannette police officer shot and killed a pit bull Monday morning after the dog reportedly held a mailman at bay for 15 minutes and then lunged at the officer. Full Article
- October 2009: Resident Kim Gido told council she feels alienated since she, her husband, John, and their small, white Maltese, Holly, were maimed by a 100-pound American bulldog owned by resident Joe Naylor. Full Article
