Anita Wright, 35, a financial advisor who lives in Broadgate, Preston, was walking her 11-year-old pet Jasper through Euston Park in Broadgate, Preston, when she saw a man struggling to control his two Staffordshire bull terriers.
The dogs pulled him towards Jasper and sank their teeth into his chest and ear.
As the man fought to pull them off a gaping wound was ripped in Jasper’s chest and Anita was pulled over, dislocating her knee. The dogs then bit Jasper’s paw.
The man, who tried to blame Anita, asked if she was in pain and then left her injured.
Anita said: “It was awful. I was rolling from side to side on the ground in pain. I couldn’t get up and he knew it, but he just walked away and left me. I can’t believe someone would do that.
“If that had been a child or an older person, what would have happened? My injury could have been more serious for all I knew.”
A good Samaritan in the park came to her aid and revealed she too had suffered an incident with the same dogs.
When Jasper was taken to the vets, Anita was told it was too risky to operate on him due to his age.
She added: “A lot of people don’t understand that pets are like your babies. Jasper was rescued as a puppy, his owners had stubbed cigarettes out on his ears. He has got to the age of 11 and this happens.
“I am very worried about him. His wounds are awful but the vet’s first reaction was that it is too risky to put him under anaesthetic.
“I feel very angry because that lad knew what his dogs were like - everyone knows their dogs.
“I am normally a very active person, I enjoy bodybuilding, but I cannot do anything for eight weeks due to my injury.
It came four days after we revealed how the owner of a Dalmatian that attacked a pensioner’s dog in Marsh Way, Penwortham, fled without an apology.
PC Carl Ingram said: “He has shown a total lack of compassion and we are keen to find out who he is.” Call 101.
(Lancashire Evening Post - April 29, 2013)
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