"I was crying and it hurt a lot," said 10-year-old Alex.
"He looked terrified and scared," said Alex's mom, Tamara Dwyer. "I was just worried about how he was feeling."
Alex and his brother older brother Steve love to play with their family dog. So when the two were walking to a nearby convenience store Sunday, and saw a dog barking at them in a yard, Steve said he weren't too worried, but his brother Alex was.
"I said you'll be okay, and he comes over next to me," said Steve.
"Buddy just started lunging, I just figured he wanted to come up, give them a hug and lick them," said the dog owner, Dave Hagar.
Hagar said he was sitting on his front porch when the two brothers walked by. He said his dog, Buddy, a boxer labrador mix, was chained up and was barking loudly at the boys.
"We just kept walking," said Steve.
Hagar said something in Buddy snapped, and so did the chain holding him back. Buddy ran at the two brothers, biting Alex in his left arm.
"I tried to get it off of him so I try to kick him," said Steve.
"At first I didn't feel it, I thought it was just a little scratch," said Alex. "I looked at my arm and it was bleeding and my tissue was falling out."
Alex and Steve ran over to a neighbor's house and called their Dad. Alex was rushed to the hospital and got thirteen stitches in his arm.
"I never meant for this to happen," said Hagar.
"I would put most of the blame on the owners. You're responsible for training your pets, you're responsible for keeping them under control," said Dwyer.
Hagar isn't required to put Buddy down because it's his first offense, but he said that doesn't matter. "My family believes he had a taste of human blood and I don't trust him no more."
The two brothers agreed, and said they won't trust other dogs anymore either.
(KPTM - June 5, 2013)
