There's been another dog attack in Melbourne - this time a 27-year-old man was bitten on the lip after calling over the animal in order to pat it.
Police say the man was walking through a reserve in Berwick, in Melbourne's southeast, about 7pm (AEST) on Monday when he called over the dog he described as similar to a Staffordshire terrier.
As the man leant forward to pat it, the dog jumped up and bit him on the lip.
He was taken to the Dandenong Hospital where he isexpected to have plastic surgery.
Police are appealing for the dog's owner or anyone who may have seen the attack to come forward.
The attack follows the fatal mauling four weeks ago of four-year-old Ayen Chol who was mauled to death in her St Albans home by a neighbour's pit bull mastiff.
On August 23, two dogs attacked an elderly woman in her Ringwood home and last week three hockey players warming up before a game were bitten by a dog being exercised off its leash.
In that incident, one of the boys from Altona's Under 15 A-grade team suffered two tears to the back of his knee while another suffered bruising and teeth marks to his lower calf.
