The owner of a 10-year-old bichon poodle assaulted was left bleeding with substantial bite marks in its neck after being assaulted by another dog as it chose a walk along a rural New Plymouth street.
Lee Mancer, from Waitara, was walking Cooper and her other dog Ted along Courtenay St prior to work last Friday when a dog hurried out from a property and assaulted Cooper.
“It was so horrific,” she said. “I can remember the dog coming from the driveway, and it did have a lead on it, but obviously wasn’t attached to anything,” she said.
“It was shocking, because imagine if that was a woman walking along with a little toddler and a little dog.”
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New Plymouth District council said the attack was under examination.
If the owner was prosecuted following the examination a judge would choose the charge, consisting of if the dog required to be ruined.
Mancer doesn’t keep in mind much of what took place or what sort of dog it was, she said.
“It’s just so horrifying. Those things are sort of blocked out.”
Lee Mancer was taking her dog Cooper for a walk when the lap dog was assaulted by another dog on a rural New Plymouth street.
But she keeps in mind seeing the other dog grab Cooper, which weighs 8kgs, on the back of his neck and turning it onto its back.
“The dog had Cooper by the throat just shaking him vigorously. I was just screaming, but I actually do remember trying to put my fingers under the dog’s jaw because I was trying to get them to release Cooper.”
But it was locked on tight. Then the owner came out and “ordered” Mancer to go and get him a stick, she said. He utilized it to get the dog’s jaw off Cooper.
People came out from neighboring homes and one female covered the greatly bleeding Cooper in blankets and handed him to Mancer.
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Cooper was left bleeding from the dog bites, which came close to its jugular.
Another took her to the veterinarian who said the bites had actually come really near Cooper’s jugular.
The dog invested 4 days at the veterinarian on morphine and greatly sedated. He’s now on prescription antibiotics.
“He’s recovering really well,” Mancer said.
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Cooper is recuperating well from, however isn’t too crazy about choosing a walk.
Mancer said she hoped the owner of the dog that assaulted covered with Cooper’s veterinarian expenses. She said she had actually begun a Givealittle page to assist with the cost of her dog’s treatment and healing.
