An night stroll for a Saskatoon man and his three youngsters rapidly turned violent, when two Pit bull dogs aggressively approached and attacked them on Wednesday.
“They must have came out from behind a car or something because suddenly they were right in front of us. Immediately it was pretty apparent that they weren’t happy to see us,” the person, who wished to have his id hid, mentioned.
He mentioned the dogs had been growling and appeared agitated. His first thought was to guard his youngsters.
“I was pushing my son’s stroller so immediately I put it behind me and got out in front,” he mentioned.
His son is simply one-year-old, and his daughters are eight and 14-years-old.
“One of them got a hold of me pretty good and they were able to drag me onto the ground and knock me over and I fell backwards, I knocked my son’s stroller over and knocked him out of the stroller,” he mentioned.
He mentioned his oldest daughter swooped in to assist her brother.
“The entire time this was happening, I was basically just screaming for help,” he mentioned.
That’s when a person from a close-by home stepped in.
“He must have recognized something was going on and he came out with a broom, and tried to fend them off,” he mentioned.
He mentioned whereas the person distracted the dogs, he acquired his youngsters to run away after which he climbed on the roof of a automotive. The canine began biting the second man till he went again into his home.
Paramedics arrived on scene and took him to hospital.
“I’ve got stitches on the back of my leg and about four or five stiches on my forearm,” he mentioned.
Meanwhile police and animal management searched the world and realized the dogs had been lacking from a home on Avenue N South.
The dogs had been present in a yard a few block away from the place the attack took place.
The proprietor ultimately arrived and took the animals. The Saskatoon Animal Control Agency mentioned it’s investigating the attack.
The man mentioned his household is traumatized from the scenario and reminds pet homeowners to maintain security high of thoughts.
“There’s a huge resonantly on people who own larger breed dogs to make sure that they’re well adjusted to people and other animals so they don’t do this,”
