“He was making an attempt to get my neck, so I’m like, ‘Hey, this canine goes to kill me!'” stated Emeterio Marroquin. “I attempted to seize his enamel and tried to choke him, as a result of he was making an attempt to get my neck, however he did not don’t have anything on his neck to seize.”
The Chatsworth man says the canine was not solely off-leash, however not sporting a collar. As he struggled to free himself from the canine, one other man, Patricio Fuentes, heard the canine’s proprietor screaming for assist, so he ran over and tried to get the canine off Marroquin.
“All of a sudden the canine realized I used to be there making an attempt to distract him and he jumped at me and lunged at me. Got me within the chest and within the arm,” Fuentes instructed Eyewitness News.
The canine finally ended its assault, returning to its proprietor.
Both males have been rushed to the hospital with dozens of chunk wounds. Marroquin rated his ache on the prime of the dimensions.
“You might say from one to 10, like ten!”
Fuentes and Marroquin are hoping cellphone video of the assault will assist determine the proprietor, who left as quickly as she was in a position to get the canine on a leash.
“She obtained right into a automobile proper after. She did not wish to look ahead to the police and took off,” Fuentes stated.
The canine is described as a white pit bull combine with black spots, weighing about 60 kilos.
Both males say it is necessary to get that canine off the streets and out of parks.
“He was simply loopy,” stated Marroquin. “Imagine if it was a child who was attacked. Maybe he will get killed.”
