{"id":30664,"date":"2025-09-19T01:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/30664\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T01:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:58:09","slug":"man-charged-after-gisborne-dog-attack-injures-two-leaves-one-victim-requiring-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/30664\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after Gisborne dog attack injures two, leaves one victim requiring surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police gave first aid to two people with \u201cserious\u201d injuries. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe two injured people were transported to hospital and one person required surgery,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

A Hato Hone St John spokesman said one person was taken to Gisborne Hospital in a moderate condition.<\/p>\n

Kerr has been charged under the Dog Control Act 1996<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The charges involving alleged dog attacks on people carry a maximum penalty of three years\u2019 imprisonment and a fine of $2000. <\/p>\n

The maximum penalty for the alleged attack on a goat carries a maximum penalty of a $3000 fine. <\/p>\n

Gisborne District Council<\/a> declined to comment on the breed of the dog involved in the alleged incident or whether it had been euthanised.<\/p>\n

In the 12 months to June 30, 2025, the council received 39 reports of dogs attacking people and 68 reports of dogs attacking other animals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Council animal control team lead Ross Hannam earlier said no hospitalisations were required in the attacks on people over that period, although some went to the emergency department.<\/p>\n

About 60% of the dogs involved in the attacks were registered.<\/p>\n

When dog attacks occur, the council typically has about 80% of the dogs surrendered and euthanised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police gave first aid to two people with \u201cserious\u201d injuries. \u201cThe two injured people were transported to hospital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,89,13239,9219,12506,42,29510,7973,5158,43,5270,29511,6290,40,38,41,39,1237,1337],"class_list":["post-30664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-attack","tag-charged","tag-dog","tag-gisborne","tag-headlines","tag-injures","tag-leaves","tag-man","tag-news","tag-one","tag-requiring","tag-surgery","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-two","tag-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}