In 2024, 77 people reported being bit by dogs in Clatsop County. In 2025, the number jumped to 139. This year, there have been 77 dog bites reported so far, according to Clatsop County Public Health.

Last summer, a dog attacked a 3-year-old in San Francisco's Marina District. Later that year, three dogs attacked a pedestrian in the Fillmore district, according to police. And just this month, San ...

As the number of dogs owned by Americans has increased in recent years, so too has the number of people bitten by dogs across the country. There are nearly 90 million dogs living in U.S. households ...

Ed Wolf doesn’t quite recall the moments between being knocked off his bike and losing a chunk of his face in November 2023. But he remembers the phone call he made to his wife: “I said, ‘You have to ...

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