The rate of attacks rose from 2014 to 2015, and could rise for this year after 515 incidents took place up to the end of November.
In 2014 there were 448 dog attacks but this rose to 547 the following year.
But the number of dogs seized and destroyed by West Midlands Police has dropped.
The figures were published as part of a Freedom Of Information request to the force, which showed dogs were most likely seized for being out of control - rather than being a dangerous breed.
The government has made it illegal for people to own certain types of breeds and let dogs be out-of-control in the public.
The figures showed police seized 369 dangerous dogs in 2016, which dropped from 467 in 2015.
And the amount of dogs destroyed also decreased across 12 months - dropping to 163 in 2016 from 262 the year before.
Currently there are four banned breeds of dogs in the UK , which are: Pit Bull Terriers, Japanese Tosas, Dogo Argentinos and Fila Brazilieros.
People can face six months in jail and unlimited fines for allowing dangerous dogs to be out-of-control in public spaces. Their dogs could also be destroyed and owners may not be able to own dogs again.
West Midlands Police said 523 dogs were seized from 2014 to 2016 because they were dangerous breeds.
These dogs were seized under Section 1 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 - which prohibits the ownership of certain types of dogs.
The government says prosecutions in these types of cases can be brought before the courts based solely on the dog's appearance.
But calls were made earlier this year by a leading animal charity to change the rules to the Dangerous Dogs Act.
The RSPCA said dogs should be banned due to their behaviour, but not breed.
This year has marked 25 years since the Dangerous Dogs Act - which applies breed-specific legislation - came into affect.
RSPCA dog welfare expert, Dr Samantha Gaines said, in August: "The police, the RSPCA and other animal rescue organisations have to deal with the consequences of this flawed law by euthanising hundreds of dogs because legislation is forcing us to due to the way they look, despite being suitable for rehoming.
"Not only is this a huge ethical and welfare issue, it also places significant emotional strain on staff.
"It is the view of the RSPCA, and the public, that every animal's life matters.
"We conclude that breed specific legislation has not achieved its objectives whilst causing unintended harms - a new approach is required.
"The RSPCA believes it is paramount for the Government to launch an inquiry into the effectiveness of breed-specific legislation, assess other options to improve human safety and dog welfare, and ultimately repeal the breed specific part of the legislation."
West Midlands Police has also seized 650 dogs since 2014 under section three of the Dangerous Dogs Act - which makes it illegal to let any dog to be dangerously out of control in a public or prohibited place.
Of these, 591 dogs caused injury, the force said.
In total there have been 1,173 dogs seized by West Midlands Police since 2014.
Meanwhile 638 dogs were destroyed in that period. The force has recorded 1,510 dog attacks in the last two years.
Reader Comments
Hitler himself said (and I bet you thought it was Hillary) “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
BSL does work and the numbers show that it works very well when enforcement does its job. However, seems that in some municipalities the animal control people are under the spell of the "nanny dog" myth and the hen pecking of the pit hags and bleeding hearts. In other words, there's a failure with enforcement, not the legislation.
People need to stop wanting puppies so that the backyard breeders will stop breeding their dogs and making more puppies and that would solve the exploding world population of dogs (same goes for cats). BSL works but there will always be the contingent of pit bull advocates who continue to tell the big lie that these dogs that are bred for blood sport actually make the very absolute bestest of pets; and they are, up until the day they rip your face off or kill your baby. Take a look at Craigslist and Facebook and you'll see how many of these wonderful family dogs are needing to be rehomed for various reasons and that they are kissey-faces and will tea party with the kiddos all day long and let the kiddos dress them in tutus, but they come with the caveat that you can't have another dog or kissey-face might get agitated and kill it, and you can't have a cat or kissey-face will hate it and kill it too, but the kiddos can eat out of the dog dish with no problem. I'll add here that over the Christmas weekend three people went to the hospital because they tried to get a sweater on Scarface the mauler who was a very sweet dog right up to that point and for some reason that escapes everyone, he just flipped out. Every day, sometimes several times a day, maulers attack out of the blue and send people to the hospital, pets to the vet and crematorium, and about 92% of those are caused by blood-sport dogs, and about every 13 days or so, someone gets a toe tag and 78% of those are caused by the blood sport dogs.
Maybe we should stop breeding pets for about 10 years to see if we can get the numbers to drop to where we won't have to euthanize 3.9 million dogs and 3.4 million cats (and growing numbers) EVERY YEAR. The only way you're going to get rid of blood sports like dog fighting is to outlaw every aspect of it, starting with the dogs themselves, and enforcing it. But, then, this is mankind we're talking about and this sport has grown so rich they can keep the lobby going. All of the SPCAs are part of that lobby as are 3 of the largest animal rescue organizations in this country and some veterinarian organizations. It's a deep, dark rabbit hole.
No small wonder cops are prone to getting trigger-happy when called to situations where dogs are involved, if you ask me.
It's like, to compensate for the fact that the owners of these dogs purposefully sought to own animals that were bred to be sharks on legs, they smother everything in treacle to defend their evil. It was as if I was being being mean and cruel to poor dumb animals for not wanting my larynx ripped out. LOL.