Cheryl-Lee Maher yesterday recalled the moment when a Staffordshire terrier-cross attacked her son Jarman on January 29.
Jarman was flown to Perth the same day and is still being treated at Princess Margaret Hospital.
He has had eight operations, has a big facial cut and nerve damage to the left side of his face and is expected to be in a wheelchair for six months.
Ms Maher was inside her home when she heard the screaming.
"When I got to Jarman, the dog was on his leg and it would not get off him, then I looked at his face and it was torn right up," she said. "There was eight of us there but we just could not get the dog off him."
The dog has been put down. Its owner said the dog had pushed its way through a flywire screen door at his home. He said that he had been running after the dog when it attacked and he had injured a finger trying to pry its jaws open.
"I did the best I could," the owner said. "I want to make up for it somehow, it was like a bad act of God."
City of Albany senior ranger Rob Forster said it was the worst attack he had seen in his eight years in the job.
(West Australian - Feb 22, 2011)
