{"id":615288,"date":"2026-09-29T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/615288\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:48:08","slug":"dog-seized-after-child-suffers-serious-injuries-in-christchurch-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/615288\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog seized after child suffers serious injuries in Christchurch attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A child has been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a dog attack in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to Breezes Rd in the suburb of Aranui at around 12pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Sergeant Hamish-Keer-Keer said animal management had been notified with police remaining on scene.<\/p>\n<p>St John said a rapid response unit and an ambulance responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our ambulance staff treated one patient and transported them to Christchurch Public Hospital in a serious condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Christchurch City Council Animal Management told 1News it had seized a six-year-old staffordshire bull terrier cross.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be undertaking an investigation so cannot comment further.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s incident took place a couple of streets over from a fatal dog attack last month.<\/p>\n<p>Sonny-Charles Watson, 1, died after being bitten by a dog at a home in Basingstoke St, Aranui on August 14. The dog was later put down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A child has been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a dog attack in Christchurch. Emergency services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-615288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615288","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=615288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}