- The six-year-old boy needed to spend days in medical facility after the vicious attack
A young boy wept ‘am I passing away?’ to his mom after their American Staffordshire terrier viciously assaulted him and ripped skin from his scalp.
Vick Zidko was walking down the stairs in his family home in Doncaster when their dog, which was purchased on Facebook simply 2 weeks prior, secured its jaws on his head.
The six-year-old pleaded with the dog, called Diesel, to stop as it extremely bit and scratched and him on his head and back, The Mirror reported.
The boy’s family was ultimately able to prise the dog’s mouth open after his daddy Vitalijus put his arm in the dog’s jaw to safeguard his child – after which, young Vick wept ‘Mummy, am I passing away?’.
After 5 days in medical facility Vick had actually the torn-off piece of scalp reattached – it is now under a big spot on his head.
Forklift truck driver Vitalijus informed The Mirror the family had actually believed ‘long and hard’ about getting a dog and explained Diesel as ‘actually soft’ and ‘leaping around’.
Last Thursday at 7pm, the dog was chewing a bone prior to the attack started leading Vick’s sis Gabriel, 18, to believe ‘it was as if he saw Vick as a chew toy’.
After the attack a piece of Vick’s scalp wound up on the flooring at the home and was almost stepped on by a policeman.
Mother Eugenija, 41, informed The Mirror: ‘I got Vick and went to the bed room, locking the door.
‘I was attempting to relax him down. I put a towel on his head to stop the bleeding. He saw all the blood and said, “Mummy, am I passing away?”.
‘Then he asked is [his twin brother] Nick and Gabriel OK.’
She included her child is now having bad dreams where he relives the minute the dog assaulted him.
She included: ‘He said, “Promise me we’ll run out dogs in our house”.’
Officers are examining the occurrence and the dog was destroyed by authorities.
It comes as a female who was whipped to death by the 8 animals in January as she was walking in a Surrey park is thought to have actually been killed by her own American Bully XL.
Witnesses to the dreadful attack said the dogs became a pack of ‘wolves’ when they assaulted Natasha Johnston, 28, at the Gravelly Hill charm area in Caterham on January 12.
She passed away from several bites to the neck, consisting of one that perforated her jugular vein, an inquest heard. Eight dogs were taken at the scene of the crazy attack.
Police validated Ms Johnston’s dog was the only animal to have actually been destroyed, which they think to be an American Bully XL.
They are continuing to hold 5 other dogs following a veterinarian’s forensic report, however 2 took dachshunds were gone back to their owner last month.
