OUCH. The picture we print today of the injuries suffered by Wendy Parker were inflicted by a Rottweiler in Greater Leys on Sunday.

Just 24 hours later, a man was attacked just streets away from the first incident by what police said was either a Staffordshire Bull Terrier or a Pitbull.

He required surgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

That these incidents happened at all is worrying. That they have happened on the back of a string of unsavoury — but unrelated — incidents is of huge concern.

Dog owners have a responsibility to keep a leash on their animals — particularly ones like these, with a predisposition for unfriendliness.

Some dogs have been bred to attack – it’s in their make-up.

But when a dog strikes at another human or animal, the owner carries the can. And quite right too.

Changes to the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 bans the domestication of Pitbull terriers, The Japanese Tosa, The Dogo Argentino and The Fila Brazileiro.

Police said they were investigating both incidents.

We would urge anyone who knows whose dogs were involved to call the police, before it happens again.