{"id":14511,"date":"2020-03-25T12:12:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T12:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=14511"},"modified":"2020-03-25T12:12:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T12:12:43","slug":"dog-bites-woman-in-moors-valley-country-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/dog-bites-woman-in-moors-valley-country-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog bites woman in Moors Valley Country Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman in her 40s has suffered from two bites to her leg by a Collie causing her to bleed, whilst running in Moors Valley.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The incident, which happened around 10.30am on Thursday 19 March 2020, is one of half a dozen reports of Border Collies attacking runners in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Collie was barking and circled around them before biting the woman\u2019s leg, causing two puncture wounds that bled immediately.<\/p>\n<p>She told a man and a woman who were with the dog that she had been bitten and they just replied that they would keep walking and left the scene, with the Collie following them a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>Dorset Police received a previous report of a dog believed to be Collie biting a dog walker on Wednesday 29 January 2020 at the country park and was made aware by staff that there had been a further five reports of a Border Collie attacking runners.<\/p>\n<p>Police Constable Jennie Sykes-Martin, of Dorset Police, said: \u201cWe are carrying out enquiries to try and identify the owners of the dog involved and I am appealing for anyone with information to contact us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would also urge the owners of the dog to please come forward and contact us so we can resolve the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman in her 40s has suffered from two bites to her leg by a Collie causing her to bleed, whilst running in Moors Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,34],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-14511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verwood","category-westmoors","tag-moors-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}