Cairns Regional Council recorded 171 dog attacks on humans¹ between Jan and October 2015 whilst Logan City Council recorded 636 dog attacks involving a bite between July 2014 and June 2015¹. Across Queensland, 6330 dog attack injuries were recorded in certain hospital emergency departments between 1999 and 2010 ³ but this is estimated to be only a fifth of the cases presented across the whole state equating to over 31,000 dog attacks in those 11 years. Around 35% of these attacks were on children with 733 of these being facial bites requiring cosmetic surgery⁴.