Outraged residents of a Melbourne suburb are questioning why it took two savage attacks on women just a day apart for the wild dogs they had repeatedly complained about to finally be captured.
On Friday afternoon, a new mother was pushing a stroller with her baby to pick up an older child from school when she was savagely attacked by two dogs in Withers Close, Sunbury, 40 kilometres northwest of Melbourne’s CBD.
Shockingly, the same dogs were still on the loose after attacking a 71-year-old woman just a day earlier, knocking her to the ground and biting her face, legs and back.
The elderly woman was saved by two men who pulled the dogs off her, but they were also injured by the animals in doing so, police said.
Neighbour Mick Jackson witnessed the attack on the 35-year-old mother and said: ‘He was bleeding from his head, from his ears, from his nose.
“I’m sorry to say, but she was like a piece of meat under attack.”
The owner of the dogs said 7News who heard the mother screaming from her house.
“I was in shock, but I ran over there immediately and put my body on top of the woman. I’m very, very happy that the baby is okay,” he said.
On Friday afternoon, a new mother (pictured, lying injured on the ground) was pushing a stroller with her baby and was on her way to pick up another child from school when she was brutally attacked by two dogs.
Outraged residents of a Melbourne suburb are questioning why it took two savage attacks in 24 hours for their neighbourhood dogs (pictured) they had repeatedly complained about to finally be caught.
The dogs’ owner said: “I’m heartbroken and feel humiliated. I feel ashamed.”
But neighbors said what happened was inevitable as the dogs constantly escaped from their backyard and had been terrorizing them for months.
“They’ve been reported many times,” Jackson said. “They scare the hell out of you.”
At least five residents said they had complained to Hume Council about the dogs, but nothing was ever done.
On one occasion, a neighbour was told they would have to restrain the dogs themselves before rangers came to investigate.
Another local, Anna Jackson, said the incidents on Thursday and Friday were not the first time dogs had bitten someone.
“About two or three months ago… the dogs were outside and Christopher was trying to push him away, but the dog just came up to him and bit him on the left leg,” she said.
When Hume Council was asked why the dogs were not removed from the property after the first attack, one councillor said there was a “process” to follow.
“You can’t just walk onto a property and take a dog. That’s the problem, even if it attacks you. You have to go through a process,” said Councilman Jack Medcraft.
The dogs were eventually removed on Saturday and euthanized.
The two women who were attacked remain in hospital and both underwent surgery for their injuries.
“I really pray for that woman and I hope she can forgive me,” the dog owner said.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Hume City Council for further comment.