Teenager’s horror as puppy savaged by dog

UNITED KINGDOM -- A teenager today spoke of the horrific moment she watched her beloved Yorkshire terrier puppy mauled to death by another dog.

The 15-year-old said her family had been left devastated following the attack in Darlaston, and made a plea for dog owners to keep their pets on a lead if they are aggressives.

Police have told the distraught family that they are powerless to take action over the attack because it is two dogs fighting.

 

Chantelle Manns today described walking  one-year-old puppy Max in Pine Avenue when another dog, believed to be a bull terrier, came racing from behind and locked its jaws on her pet.

The Grace Academy pupil, who lives with mother Andrea, brother Mitchell, 16, and seven-year-old sister Abigail in Broadwaters Road, Darlaston, said the terrier snapped at her heels as she was on her bicycle walking Max.

She grabbed her pet and dropped him on some grass on the other side of a small fence, thinking she had kept him safe.

But she said the other dog leapt over the fence and sank its teeth into him.

She said: “He looked at me as if to say ‘Please help me!’

“He was trying to put his foot in the other dog’s face and the dog’s owner was trying to pull him off.”

She said of her beloved pet: “I was his best friend, he was the family pet but I was the one to wash him and feed him.”

Mother Andrea, 36, said: “It’s been very traumatic at Christmas time.

“I didn’t want to see him afterwards, so I can’t imagine what Chantelle went through seeing him attacked.

“She was sick three times when she came home that evening.”

She added: “We did get the police involved and they looked into it, but because it’s a dog fighting another dog, there’s nothing they can do, they said it was a civil matter.

“I am concerned because what happens when the dog is loose again? It could happen to a child.”

The attack happened on November 30.

(Express and Star - Dec 21, 2011)