Vera Lewis' terrier Suzie was mauled by a white pit bull in Granville Marina last Wednesday.
Her son, Alan Lewis, was walking Suzie at about 7.30pm when the incident happened.
Mr Lewis said: "It went straight for the neck. It was dead silent and it didn't bark. I managed to get it off her. I could see her neck bone and both shoulders and there was blood everywhere. I thought she was going to die. Suzie is my mother's pride and joy and she (Suzie) worships her."
Mrs Lewis was distraught when she saw her pet's injuries before she was taken to an emergency vet.
She said: "I nearly died with fright. Suzie was just lying across my feet bleeding.
"She is like a small child to me. She follows me around everywhere – she's always on my lap. They (the police) haven't done anything."
Mr Lewis said the owner of the pit bull apologised, saying it had not happened before.
Suzie survived but Mr Lewis now has to pay a £600 bill for the seven-year-old terrier's treatment and has been told police are unable to take action because no crime has been committed.
He said: "This bill could break a lot of people. People need to know about an unpredictable, dangerous dog. It's disgusting the police say no crime has been committed. The dog was only on Suzie for ten seconds and if nothing's done it's just going to get better at it and become more dangerous.
"The sheer speed and power of that animal was unbelievable. I do not want to be talking to you or hearing about a child being killed by this dog in the future."
A spokesman for Kent Police said the attack was classed as a "civil dispute" because "it was deemed that the dog was not dangerously out of control".
Kent Police confirmed the incident and said officers visited the informant to discuss the matter but it was established this was a civil dispute.
A Freedom of Information Act request to Kent Police in June revealed almost 2,000 incidents involving dangerous dogs in publics place in East Kent since 2009. The force did not specify how many of these incidents were dog-on-dog attacks.
Kent Police and Crime Commissioner Ann Barnes was unable to respond on whether a change in legislation on dog attacks was needed at the time we went to press after she was hurt in a car crash on Tuesday.
A statement on Mrs Barnes website said she was "shaken, but fortunately not seriously injured."
(thanetgazette.co.uk-Sep 23, 2014)
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