A terrified lady was mauled as she tried to save lots of her dogs from being savaged by two XL bullies.
Christine Potts was bitten on the face and head and suffered a suspected damaged nostril. During the extended assault, she and her pal Tracey Heyhurst tried in useless to struggle the animals off earlier than each dogs ultimately drained and ran away.
But moments later one of many bullies savaged one other pet within the busy public park. Christine and Tracey had sat on a bench after walking their dogs, Rosie, a 16-year-old West Highland Terrier, and Mylo, a two yr old Papillon, MirrorOnline reports.
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Tracey stood up after listening to one other lady shouting for assist and when she turned around the XL bullies, which weren’t on a lead, had pounced on their pets. One of them grabbed Rosie by the neck in its highly effective jaws.
Tracey punched and kicked out on the large canine because it threw Rosie to the ground.
She mentioned: “I hit it nevertheless it didn’t do something in any respect.”
The different animal went for Mylo and Christine was bitten as she lay on the ground attempting to guard the pooch beneath her physique. Both girls feared they’d lose their battles with the bullies.
Christine mentioned: “At one level I used to be getting so drained I assumed we must allow them to kill our dogs. We simply couldn’t hold combating.
”The dogs, one white and the opposite tan, lastly ran off however seconds later the darker colored animal attacked a 3 yr old Yorkshire Terrier-Chihuahua cross referred to as Scooby, who was additionally within the park with its proprietor Jackie Mahoney, 50.Jackie additionally needed to struggle to save lots of her pet, which was badly bitten and wanted a staple in a again wound. The police arrived and each XL bullies had been captured.
Christine mentioned the scene of the assault, Willow Park in Newton-le-Willows, issued by households and added: “The dogs may simply have had a toddler.”
Both she and Tracey have backed calls to ban the breed.
Christine mentioned: “They are too powerful to be kept as pets. It is like walking round with a tiger.”
After her canine Scooby was mauled, Jackie Mahoney began an internet petition calling for a Bully ban, which has now been signed by greater than 25,000 folks. Jackie, a social employee, mentioned: “Doing nothing is not an option. We have got to do something immediately. If we don’t we are basically saying it is ok for people to be killed. It is ok for children to be killed.”
A spokesman for Merseyside Police, who’re investigating the incident, mentioned no-one has been arrested and the 2 seized dogs are in safe kennels beneath police management.
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