Nonfatal incident record · 2026-10-20

Jacksonville man bitten while separating family dogs fighting over a squirrel

A Jacksonville police report described a 44-year-old man bitten on his left cheek and arm while separating two family dogs; hospital treatment was not established.

Nonfatal reported · 1 person bittenBreed: Unknown / not reportedDuval County, FL

Date2026-10-20 · Exact time not reported

LocationFamily fenced yard, Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida; exact street address and yard location not published.

Victim(s)One 44-year-old man was reported bitten on the left cheek and arm, with a laceration to the left eyelid. No other human bite victims were reported.

Dogs involvedTwo of four family dogs reportedly fought after chasing a squirrel; one dog, called Brutus in the police report, was identified as the human biter. The other dog was not reported to have bitten a person.

Injury severityNonfatal report: police described bite marks on the left cheek and arm and a lacerated left eyelid. Hospitalization, treatment details and longer-term outcome were not reported.

Breed attributionUnknown / not reportedThe October 21 News4JAX account of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office report did not identify Brutus’s breed or mix. Name, ownership, size and circumstances cannot establish breed.

What the record currently shows

Incident summary

News4JAX reported on October 21, citing a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office report, that a 44-year-old man was bitten Tuesday, October 20, while trying to separate two of the family’s four dogs in his fenced yard. His daughter told officers the two dogs chased a squirrel that had fallen from a tree and then began fighting. One dog, identified in the report as Brutus, reportedly bit the man on the left cheek and arm, and the man also had a laceration to his left eyelid. The daughter brought the dogs inside. Police said the dog was captured and advised contacting Jacksonville Animal Care and Protective Services about possible surrender. No breed, hospital treatment, final animal-control outcome or criminal charge was confirmed in the article; this record does not infer any.

Legal-status note

Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office advised the family to contact Animal Care and Protective Services about possibly surrendering the dog and sent the report to that agency. No charge, surrender, euthanasia, or dangerous-dog ruling was established.

Original reporting and supporting evidence

Sources and evidence

News4JAX — Jacksonville man bitten in the face while separating dogs fighting over squirrel, JSO says — News4JAX October 21 local original reporting citing a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office incident report; medical records and independent veterinary breed evidence were not obtained.

High for the police-report-attributed date, general location, age, mechanism and identified dog name. Breed, exact address, treatment, final severity, dog disposition and any charges have not been independently established.

Supplementary sources

Data-quality notes

What BiteDB does not infer

The bite and laceration details are attributed to the Jacksonville police report as described by News4JAX. No breed, clinical diagnosis, hospitalization, animal-control disposition, or criminal charge is inferred. The generalized map marker is not the family's home or attack location.