Mohali, Oct. 24 -- Planning a walk in their neighbourhood park? Or thinking of letting your children play outside? Or mulling a quick dash to the nearby market on foot? Think again. Because your chances of encountering a ferocious dog, or, worse still, being bitten by it are extremely high. The numbers say so.

In the last nine months, i.e, January to September, the city has recorded 22,329 dog bite cases - an average of 82 cases a day.

The total cases are a 44.6% increase over the 15,439 cases recorded during the corresponding period in 2025.

The surge comes amid the suspension of the district's stray-dog sterilisation programme.

The monthly figures shared by the civil hospital in Phase 6, show that the cases remained above 2,300 thro...