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Fatal dog attacks in Canada are the occurrences of fatalities attributed to dogs during specific years. A 2008 study found that 1 to 2 deaths per year in Canada are attributable to dog attacks, however other systematic data is lacking compared to the wider variety of studies conducted by researchers in the United States.[1] In the list, the attribution of breed is assigned by the sources.
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Fatalities reported in 1998
Date | Category of Dog | Victim's name | Victim's age | Circumstances |
March |
Pack of sled dogs |
Leah Tikivik |
6 years |
Tikivik was killed in Iqaluit, Nunavut and killed by a group of sled dogs that were staked to the ice. [2][3] |
April 27 |
Bullmastiff |
Courtney Trempe |
8 years |
Trempe was playing in her neighbor's yard in Stouffville, Ontario when their dog brutally attacked her and killed her.[4][5] |
August 23 |
Sled dogs (8) |
A woman and her son |
40, 10 |
The mother and son were picking berries on Zacharias Island, Labrador when eight sled dogs attacked and killed them. [6][7] |
December 21 |
Pack of stray dogs |
Young boy |
8 years |
The young boy was mauled by a group of stray dogs while he was walking to his home in Cross Lake, Manitoba with food. [8][9] |
Fatalities reported in 1999
Date | Category of Dog | Victim's name | Victim's age | Circumstances |
November |
Pack of dogs |
Cecilia Alook |
6 years |
Alook was playing with a puppy nearby her home in Garden River, Alberta when she was attacked by a pack of starving dogs.[10] |
Fatalities reported in 2002
Date | Category of Dog | Victim's name | Victim's age | Circumstances |
January 27 |
Rottweiler |
Kyra-Lee Sibthorpe |
4 years |
The young girl was killed by the family dog in Woodland Beach, Ontario by a rented farmhouse. She was alone and she was not found for a number of hours.[11][9] |
Fatalities reported in 2003
Date | Category of Dog | Victim's name | Victim's age | Circumstances |
March 1 |
Rottweiler (3) |
James Waddell |
4 years |
Waddell was playing outside of his home in Kingston Peninsula, New Brunswick when he was attacked and killed by three rottweilers.[12] |
October 13 |
German Shepherd mix (4) |
Unnamed male child |
3 years |
The boy was killed by his grandmother's four dogs in Nelson House, Manitoba. The grandmother tried to fend off the dogs but was attacked herself.[13] |
Fatalities reported in 2004
Date | Category of Dog | Victim's name | Victim's age | Circumstances |
December 27 |
Border Collie (1), Rottweilers (3) |
Cody John Anger |
3 years |
Anger was attacked by four dogs in his home in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. He had extensive injuries and died in the hospital.[14] |
Fatalities reported in 2006
Date | Category of Dog | Victim's name | Victim's age | Circumstances |
May 29 |
Jack Russell/Collie mix |
John Martin |
77 years |
Martin was "playfully poking" his wife near their home in Wellburn, Ontario when their pet lunged at Martin's throat and killed him.[15] |
July 27 |
Husky (2) |
Derian Bird |
2 years |
Bird was killed by two huskies in Hollow Water First Nation, Manitoba.[16] |
November 16 |
Rottweiler, German Shepherd, Mutts (3) |
Lancelot Corbin Wyatt Loonskin |
5 years |
Loonskin left his house on a reserve near Fort Vermilion, Alberta alone to go outside to play. Neighbors heard several dogs barking and growling and came outside to find Loonskin being mauled. He died of his injuries.[17] |
Fatalities reported in 2007
Date | Category of Dog | Victim's name | Victim's age | Circumstances |
July 1 |
Rottweiler/German Shepherd mix |
Korie Lyn Edwards |
1 year |
Edwards was killed by her grandparents' dog in Montague Township, Ontario when she wandered into the backyard where the dog was chained. She was rushed to the hospital but she died from her injuries.[18] |
Fatalities reported in 2010
Date | Category of Dog | Victim's name | Victim's age | Circumstances |
January 30 |
Mutts (4) |
Keith Iron |
10 years |
Iron was killed by four wild dogs in a northern reserve, Canoe Lake, Saskatchewan, while walking to a family members house.[19] |
March 22 |
Husky (3) |
Sabock Akpalialuk |
4 years |
Akpalialuk was killed by 3 sled dogs when they escaped from their yard, chased him and mauled him in Pangnirtung, Nunavut. He died from extensive injuries to his neck.[20] |
June 7 |
Husky (2) |
Unnamed female child |
3 weeks |
The baby was killed by two huskies in her home in Saint-Barnabe-Sud, Quebec.[21] |
Fatalities reported in 2012
Date | Category of Dog | Victim's name | Victim's age | Circumstances |
February 16 |
Husky |
Unnamed male child |
Newborn |
The baby died en route to a hospital after being attacked by the family dog in his home in Airdrie, Alberta.[22] |
Fatalities reported in 2014
Date | Category of Dog | Victim's name | Victim's age | Circumstances |
March 16 |
Alaskan Malamute (2) |
Gracie Hernetier-Clark |
7 years |
Hernetier-Clark was killed outside of a house in Oakbank, Manitoba. She died shortly after being mauled by the two Alaskan Malamutes.[23] |
June 14 |
Husky |
Sheena Levina Jenny Uqaituk |
4 years |
Uqaituk was killed by a sled dog in Puvirnituq, Quebec who was chained on a neighbor's property. She was mauled and died from her extensive injuries.[24] |
Fatalities reported in 2015
Date | Category of Dog | Victim's name | Victim's age | Circumstances |
October 17 |
Northern dogs (4) |
Shane Glada |
22 years |
Glada was killed in Ross River, Yukon by four stray dogs while walking in the woods.[25] |
Fatalities reported in 2016
Date | Category of Dog | Victim's name | Victim's age | Circumstances |
January 30 |
Mutt |
Kathleen Green |
78 years |
Green was killed in Kamloops, British Columbia by a family member's dog who was tied up in a backyard.[26] |
June 6 |
Northern Dog |
Unnamed female child |
4 years |
A 4-year-old girl was killed by a dog in Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut. The dog had not been tied up properly and mauled the girl who died on arrival to the hospital.[27] |
June |
American Staffordshire Terrier |
Christiane Vadnais |
55 years |
Vadnais was killed by a registered boxer, DNA testing conducted in Washington State found the dog to be 87.5% American Staffordshire Terrier[28] (nearly the same breed as the American Pit Bull Terrier). The owner of the dog was charged with negligence but was not charged with the crime.[29][30] |
Fatalities reported in 2017
Date | Category of Dog | Victim's name | Victim's age | Circumstances |
July 2017 |
Boxer bulldog mix |
Andrew Kochut |
Unspecified, adult |
Andrew Kochut was killed when his dog attacked him as he was having a seizure in his girlfriend's apartment in Kitchener, Ontario [31] |
May 13 |
Large pack of stray dogs |
Donnelly Rose Eaglestick |
24 years |
Eaglestick was chased down and attacked while walking home at night through a construction site in Little Grand Rapids, Manitoba. She was severely mauled and had died of her injuries when the body was found the following morning.[32] |
September 14 |
Alaskan Malamute |
Cameron Mushanski |
6 years |
Killed by grandparents dog. Dogs later put down.[33] |
Fatalities reported in 2018
Date | Category of Dog | Victim's name | Victim's age | Circumstances |
September 15 |
Boxer mix |
Lisa Lloyd |
50 years |
According to Strathmore RCMP, the mutt cross attacked a two-and-a-half year-old girl on a farm north of Langdon and just east of Chestermere about 6 p.m., before turning its attention on its 50-year-old owner. The unidentified woman, who police said was the dog’s owner, was in her home when the vicious attack occurred.[34] |
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References
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- ↑ "Child killed in dog attack on northern Alberta reserve". CBC News. November 17, 2006. Retrieved May 21, 2017.
Five-year-old Cecilia Alook was killed by dogs in November 1999 when she stopped to play with a puppy just 200 metres from her home. That attack was blamed on animals that were starving.
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- ↑ Report to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General - Public Fatality Inquiry: Lancelot Corbin Wyatt Loonskin (PDF) (Report). Provincial Court of Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2017.
- ↑ Burgmann, Tamsyn; Ma, Adrian (July 3, 2007). "Tot killed by grandparents' dog". Toronto Star. Retrieved May 21, 2017.
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- ↑ Calgary-area woman killed by own dog after child attacked, https://edmontonsun.com/news/crime/langdon-woman-killed-by-own-dog-after-child-attacked/wcm/f763bbe8-5b7a-477a-8284-a60236447c2e