Little William Davies was watching his dad play football when he was bitten by the animal, which was on a lead but not muzzled.
The dog’s owner apologised, but while William was being tended to he walked off from the playing fields in Woodsmoor, Stockport.
William’s father, landscape contractor Ashley Davies, 38, was playing in a match with the Stockport Georgians at the time.
When he realised what had happened, he raced to his son’s aid and called his wife, William’s mum, Rachel, 41.
The worried parents took their son to their doctor, who bandaged up the bite mark, about 8cm by 8cm, on his stomach and prescribed antibiotics.
The mother-of-two, who has two dogs of her own, has slammed the owner of the Rottweiler who was seen walking away in the direction of a nearby estate.
Rachel, a volunteer for Victim Support from Woodsmoor, trawled the area in a bid to find the owner following the drama.
She said: “That dog should have been muzzled. If my son had been any smaller it could have been his face. It could have been so much worse.”
A passer-by told Rachel they had seen a man with a muzzled Rottweiler.
She added: “I just want him to say ‘yes, the dog has been dealt with and I’ll keep the muzzle on’. It was obviously in his pocket.
“The fact he walked away leads me to think the dog had done it before. The owner needs to be held responsible for the fact his dog has bitten my son.
“He left without leaving any details and without waiting for his parents to arrive or to see how he is.
“That’s annoyed me more than anything. William has never been scared of dogs before. Now if he sees one, he stops. I don’t want him to have that fear.”
Rachel spoke out after we reported how another boy, aged, seven, was bitten by a dog in a playground in Marple.
In that incident the owner of the dog also left the scene.
(Manchester Evening News - Oct 14, 2013)
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