A fourth toddler in as many weeks has been attacked by a
family dog.
Despite emergency surgery yesterday, the 18-month-old girl is
likely to have scars across her face.
Police say the girl was playing in her backyard on Porirua's
Dorset Grove when the family's pitbull-staffordshire cross
launched itself at her. She sustained significant injuries to
the right side of her face and stomach.
The dog, on a 5m chain at the time, was seized by council
officers shortly after the attack and was due to be put down
yesterday. Two other dogs, of similar breed, remained at the
property.
On Wednesday, a 3-year-old boy was badly bitten on the throat
by a doberman-staffordshire-bull terrier. On Christmas Day,
15-month-old Ozyris Beeching was savaged by the next door
neighbour's pitbull while he played in the yard. And three
days before that, a 3-year-old boy needed plastic surgery
after an attack at Red Beach, north of Auckland.
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