The location is Shandong Province.
In China, where dog-bite incidents have become increasingly frequent, surveillance footage has emerged showing an 80-year-old person having their nose bitten off by a neighbor’s pet dog—an attack that also resulted in the victim losing their sight. The dog was euthanized that same day.
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Incidents Involving Free-Roaming Dogs Persist in Shandong Province Despite Regulations
In Shandong Province, where this recent incident occurred, a system for regulating free-roaming dogs was already in place. In the provincial capital, Jinan, a registration and “point-based” system for dog owners has been in operation since 2017. Owners are initially allotted 12 points; three points are deducted for each violation—such as walking a dog without a leash or failing to clean up after it—and if the point total reaches zero, the dog is confiscated.
Furthermore, following an incident in October 2023 in Chongzhou, Sichuan Province—where a large dog (a Rottweiler) attacked a two-year-old girl, leaving her with severe injuries including fractured ribs and a damaged kidney—several regions, including Shandong, Jiangxi, and Hubei provinces, as well as the municipality of Chongqing, announced intensified measures, such as the mass capture and culling of stray dogs and stricter enforcement against free-roaming pets. In other words, Shandong Province is a region that had already been strengthening its controls on free-roaming dogs for several years; yet, it was during this period that the current incident took place, in which an elderly person reportedly had their nose bitten off by a neighbor’s dog, resulting in the loss of their vision.
Across China, the number of reported rabies cases had declined from 422 in 2018 to 131 in 2023. However, the figures have since begun to rise again—reaching 167 cases in 2024 and 248 in 2025 (according to preliminary data)—suggesting that the implementation of regulatory systems has not necessarily translated into an effective reduction in such incidents.
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