ALASKA -- A 7-year-old boy sustained facial wounds Tuesday in a South Anchorage attack by a family friend’s dog, which police say had also attacked him a few years earlier.
APD spokesperson Dani Myren says dispatchers were informed at 8:36 p.m. Tuesday about the attack, which occurred at the friend’s home on the 9000 block of Amanda Circle. Myren says the boy and his father were visiting the home when Dexter, a Rottweiler/Labrador retriever mix, attacked the boy.
“It sounds like he had some pretty severe facial lacerations as a result of this dog incident,” Myren said.
The boy’s father and the dog’s owner drove him to the Jewel Lake fire station, from which he was taken to Providence Alaska Medical Center for treatment of what Myren said were non-life-threatening injuries.
Myren says Dexter also reportedly attacked the boy two or three years ago, in an incident where he may have provoked the animal.
“Apparently the child had some scarring as a result, and now the child has been bitten again,” Myren said.
Dexter was taken to the Anchorage Animal Care and Control Center after Tuesday’s attack. A Channel 2 request for details on the dog’s status wasn’t immediately answered Wednesday afternoon.
(KTUU - June 5, 2013)
