The 17-year-old was walking along Grigor St in the Moffat Beach Industrial Park when she spotted a dog that “looked like it was crossed with an American staffy” staring right at her.
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| Schoolgirl Jorja Schloss, 17, shows the arm injured in a dog attack. |
Uneasy, Jorja crossed the street to avoid the collared dog, which had brindle colouring with a white patch down its back left leg.
But it was then that the drama unfolded.
“After I crossed the road, I looked back and it started to approach me so I walked faster. The next time I turned around it was running at me,” Jorja said.
“It latched on to my arm and I just managed to pull my arm out before it bit down properly. Even then it tore the skin on top of my arm and underneath you can see each individual tooth mark.”
After struggling to get free, Jorja was chased for 500m before the dog stopped.
She ran to the Caloundra High School office and alerted staff.
“I was shaking so much, it was the scariest thing. The whole time the dog looked like it wanted to kill me,” Jorja said.
The attack came just five days after six-year-old Zane Watkins was mauled outside his Buddina home.
A Sunshine Coast Council spokeswoman said that dog had been removed due to concerns that it could not be contained securely. “In relation to the Moffat Beach reported attack, council officers patrolled the area but no dog was sighted,'' she said.
Owners of dogs found to have attacked a person face a maximum fine of $30,000.
(Sunshine Coast Daily - June 23, 2011)
