A man and a woman were treated at the scene of a dog attack Thursday in the backyard of a home in the city’s northeast, said paramedics.
The dogs were not seized by animal services.
Charges have already been laid against a pit bull owner whose dogs mauled a pet Pomeranian to death Monday and seriously injured a Great Pyrenees.
And on Wednesday, two pit bulls were seized after they got loose and allegedly bit a woman.
Emergency crews were alerted to the latest problem after a neighbour heard a woman screaming.
“I was in my bedroom and I could hear screaming. It sounded like someone was being attacked,” the witness told Global Calgary.
“[My boyfriend and I] grabbed some golf clubs and a baseball bat and we ran over and just gave them to them over the fence, but we couldn’t really see what was happening.”
The owners told CTV Calgary that they had to work quickly to save the dog’s life.
“We managed to get the one dog into the other side of the yard, and then had to try to get the other dog off our dog,” one of the owners said.
Doug Anderson of Calgary Bylaw Services said the number of dog attacks so close together is “abnormal for us.”
(Canada.com - Jan 4, 2013)
