“He has feeling in his arm, feeling in his fingers and can move his fingers,” Animal Control Officer Kenneth Fraser said Friday.
Fraser said the boy’s father told him that additional surgery will be required as he continues to recuperate. Doctors were initially fearful that that they would have to amputate the limb, which suffered damage to an artery.
The attack, which occurred at the family’s Day Avenue home, was reported to police shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday, Capt. Michael McCabe said.
The incident happened shortly after the boy had been bouncing on a trampoline in the yard, Fraser said, adding that the dog had a history of “going crazy” when children used the trampoline.
The boy got off the trampoline and was attempting to pass through a gated area leading toward the house when his arm got stuck in the gate. The boy started yelling for help and the dog, which was on the other side of the gate, attacked his arm, Fraser said.
McCabe said the boy’s father told police that the dog had “territorial issues.” The bite started near the boy’s right shoulder and extended into his upper arm, McCabe said.
The dog, a 3-year-old American bulldog, has since been euthanized.
(The Republican - April 05, 2013)
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