Dog-on-dog attacks have “skyrocketed” by 700 percent since the pandemic, Parliament has been told.
MP Anna Firth said the increase was down to the purchasing of “pandemic puppies” during COVID-19 lockdowns as she called for a new law to tackle the scourge.
The Tory politician said the true figure is likely to be far higher—as just 14 out of 43 of the UK’s police forces record the attacks.
She estimated that the figures, which have jumped from 1,700 in 2016, to a staggering 11,559, could be as high as 35,000 throughout the UK.
In London alone, police recorded 2,264 dog-on-dog attacks.
Firth gathered the information through Freedom of Information requests as she proposed a bill to make vicious dog attacks a crime….