Descriptive data on dog owners’ reactions upon their dog’s biting of a human and/ or animal, at biting incidents leading to confiscation of 374 dogs.

Descriptive data on dog owners’ reactions upon their dog’s biting of a human and/ or animal, at biting incidents leading to confiscation of 374 dogs, as counts and as % of column total for a first time frame (2008–2010), a second time frame (2020-mid-May 2022) and overall for both time frames. No significant differences were found between the time frames (χ2 = 8.5, P = 0.21, df = 6).