Three-year-old girl savaged by dog has life saved by terrified relative who saw attack

UNITED KINGDOM -- The family pet suddenly mauled the defenceless youngster before an onlooking relative manage to pull the out-of-control husky away. Their actions could have saved the girl’s life, police said

A distraught mum rushed out her home carrying her wounded three-year-old daughter after a crazed dog attack.

The family pet suddenly mauled the defenceless youngster before an onlooking relative manage to pull the out-of-control husky away.

Their actions could have saved the girl’s life, police said.

Horrified residents watched as the child’s mum emerged from the terraced home on Lawrenny Street, Neyland, Powys, with the injured tot wrapped in a blanket.

She was placed in an ambulance and driven to a nearby school field where an air ambulance flew her to Morriston Hospital in Swansea.

The girl suffered facial injuries on Thursday afternoon, but is ‘recovering well’, police said.

The animal, an eight-year-old Siberian Husky cross Alaskan Malamute, was destroyed by a vet at the family’s request.

Dyfed Powys Police said no crime had been committed as the dog is not a banned breed and evidence suggested nobody had acted recklessly in the ‘out of the blue’ incident.

Onlookers watched as the animal was later led out the house by officers, described as ‘calm, quite big, but docile’ by watching residents.

Shannon Knowles, 19, said: “This is a quiet street where nothing ever happens so to suddenly see three police cars and an ambulance was a bit mad.

“There was a lot of activity in front of the house and then I saw the mum, who looked shaken, carry out the little girl in a blanket and get into one of the ambulances. A couple of minutes after that I saw the air ambulance take off.

“The girl’s only a toddler and I was so upset to think what had happened. The dog must have been bigger than she was.”

A pensioner, who did not want to be named, said: “There was a lot of activity in the road and people were very sorry for the little mite.”

A police spokesman added: “The incident occurred inside the family home and was by all accounts an attack that came completely out of the blue.

“The dog had not been left unsupervised with the little girl and if it had not been for the fast actions of a family member, her injuries could have been far more serious.

“Police have thoroughly looked into this matter and are satisfied that this was a very unfortunate incident that no one could have foreseen. There will be no further investigation.

“The little girl is recovering well after being treated.”

The breed is the same as that responsible for the death of a six-day old baby, Eliza-Mae Mullane, at a house in Pontyberem, Camarthenshire, in February 2014.

(Mirror UK - April 25, 2015)