{"id":617180,"date":"2026-10-01T07:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/617180\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T07:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:04:10","slug":"christchurch-dog-attack-dog-euthanised-after-child-seriously-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/617180\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch dog attack: Dog euthanised after child seriously injured"},"content":{"rendered":"

A passer-by, who did not wish to be named, told the Herald they heard a commotion coming from a property on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe heard all this yelling and screaming coming from one of the houses,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis guy was smacking a dog with a bit of wood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hato Hone St John said it was notified at 11.56am of \u201can animal incident\u201d and responded with a rapid response unit and an ambulance.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur ambulance staff treated one patient and transported them to Christchurch Public Hospital in a serious condition,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Senior Sergeant Hamish Keer-Keer said on Tuesday that Animal Management had been notified.<\/p>\n

The incident came weeks after a fatal dog attack in Aranui. Toddler Sonny-Charles, 1, died on August 14<\/a> at his family home after being bitten by a dog.<\/p>\n

Police have confirmed no criminal charges will be laid in relation to the boy\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A passer-by, who did not wish to be named, told the Herald they heard a commotion coming from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,89,155261,1558,2511,4487,9219,82705,42,10933,2845,43,23419,2846,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-617180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-attack","tag-attacking","tag-been","tag-child","tag-christchurch","tag-dog","tag-euthanised","tag-headlines","tag-injured","tag-leaving","tag-news","tag-seriously","tag-them","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617180","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=617180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}