The 11-year-old Preston youngster underwent emergency surgery on her legs, after she was badly injured in the attack and was in hospital for over a week.
Emily Procter and her friend were on their homes in Edward Street in Deepdale, when they took a shortcut down Great George Street.
Her grandma Lorrain Procter, of Villiers Street, said the youngsters had been shopping at Iceland in North Road and as they passed the site of a former car wash they stopped to feed two dogs behind a fence.
Lorrain said: “There was some food on the pavement so Emily kicked it under the fence to the dogs. One of the dogs grabbed her toe pulling her leg under the fence and as the dog got her leg the other one joined in.”
She added that a young man on his way to work grabbed the girl and carried her home, where her mother Ellie called an ambulance and police.
Lorrain said: “She has been to theatre twice and is still in hospital. She’s had surgery on one leg and the other is all bandaged. It is a mess.
“The dogs are in a compound and there is a sign up but what worries me is that children walk past there all the time. I have a four-year-old grandson who likes to roll a stick along fences . I am worried about what will happen if he does that there.”
Lorrain said Emily, a pupil at St Ignatius Catholic Primary School, Deepdale, was “a very easy going laid back child.”
She is the fourth of six children and has been brought up around big dogs.
Mum Ellie was “devastated” by the incident but Lorrain added: “Emily being Emily is bright and chirpy despite everything and was still going to school in hospital.
“That’s the way she is but we don’t know what the damage is yet. They keep doing tests to check for nerve damage. My worry is that it could happen again.”
Businesses nearby said it was unclear who the dogs, a large Alsatian-type and a Rottweiler, belonged to.
One neighbour said: “It used to be a car wash but they left some time ago. Someone comes at night to feed them (the dogs.)”
Police and local dogs wardens were called to incident. A spokesman for Lancashire Police said the animals were not banned breeds under the Dangerous Dogs Act and added: “We are aware of the incident but not taking any action as no criminal offence has been committed.”
A Preston Council spokesman said they were liasing with police.
(Lancashire Evening Post - July 8, 2013)
