South Yorkshire Police have urged parents to take action to protect their children after a 3-year-old boy was mauled by a registered XL Bully dog in Doncaster,

The attack was on the boy’s face, resulting him needing face surgery earlier this week and the seized dog remains in the kennels as SYP carry out the investigation.

Chief Inspector Emma Cheney who leads the work on dangerous dogs in South Yorkshire said: “Children should never be unsupervised when with dogs, even family pets that you believe ‘would never hurt’ your children.”

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