What’s behind the rise in dog attacks?
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:10.5 | Today, why are so many people being bitten by dogs in Britain? |
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| 1:37.6 | Jack Liss was just 10 years old when he was more to death by a dog. |
| 1:42.4 | Jack Liss was attacked by an Excel bully in 2021 while visiting his friend's house in |
| 1:48.2 | Kevphilly in South Wales. Last week, his mum Emma Whitfield made an emotional plea to MPs and parliament. |
| 1:56.3 | For the last year, she has been campaigning for justice to try and ensure that no one suffers |
| 2:02.8 | like her son did. This has been the consequence of people wanting a status symbol. |
| 2:08.6 | This animal was not a family pet. It was not a cute, cuddly member of the family. |
| 2:14.5 | It was made to be this way, and there was absolutely no intent on anyone calming it from the moment |
| 2:20.8 | it was born. The dog that killed Emma's son was an American bully Excel. A breed that has |
| 2:27.2 | been responsible for more than half the deaths caused by dogs in England and Wales since 2021. |
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