A Melbourne woman who was attacked by dogs the day before the same pack mauled a mother pushing a pram has spoken of her traumatic experience.
Late last month, three American cane-like dogs attacked Christine, 71, in Sunbury, 40 kilometers northwest of Melbourne’s financial district, knocking her to the ground, biting her face, legs and back and breaking her hip.
Surprisingly, the same dogs were still roaming free the next day, when they savagely attacked a 35-year-old mother who was pushing her little one in a stroller, while she was on her way to pick up an older child from school.
Christine was saved by two men who took the dogs from her, but they were also injured by the animals while doing so.
Speaking for the first time, Christine said that after what happened to her, the second attack “should never have happened” as the dogs should have been taken away.
He is still receiving treatment at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, including skin graft surgery.
The three dogs were put down within hours of attacking the mother, but Christine said Hume Council officials should have acted sooner.
“It’s an unpleasant situation and it shouldn’t have happened,” he told Herald of the sun.
A Melbourne woman who was attacked by dogs (pictured) the day before the same pack mauled a mother pushing a stroller has spoken about her traumatic experience.
“I feel sorry for the young woman who was attacked the next day, that should never have happened.”
He said the dogs should have been caught after they attacked her, which would have saved the mother from being savagely attacked the next day.
“I know how I felt when I was attacked, but she also had to protect her baby,” she said.
“That must have been heartbreaking for her.”
Christine spent 10 days in hospital after the “terrifying” attack and said one of the “big bites” she suffered “will take quite some time to heal.”
“I got hit flying and broke my hip so I couldn’t get up to go anywhere and they just left me on the ground,” he said.
She thanked the “very good Samaritans” who came to rescue her.
Christine said she couldn’t thank them at the time due to her injuries and shock, but she hopes to meet them again so she can.
When the second attack occurred, neighbors were alerted after hearing the mother’s screams, only to find her “bleeding from her head, ears and nose.”
The dogs savagely mauled a 35-year-old mother (pictured on the ground) who was pushing her toddler in a stroller.
The dogs’ owner (pictured) apologized to the community for the incidents and said her dogs “were my family.”
Among those who came to the mother’s aid was the dogs’ owner, who said she was “humiliated” and “sorry” for what her pets had done.
But he said he knew nothing about the previous day’s attack on Christine, otherwise he “would have kept (the dogs) inside.”
she said 7news that he had ‘put my body on the woman’ to try to stop the attack and was grateful that they did not direct their attention to the baby.
“It’s been heartbreaking for me and I’m just praying for her,” he said.
“I’m very, very happy the baby was okay… The dogs didn’t go near the baby, thank God.”
He also apologized to the council and the local community for the incidents and said his dogs “were my family”.
But neighbors said what happened was inevitable as the dogs were constantly escaping from their backyard and had been terrorizing them for months.
“They have been reported many times,” said one man. “They scare the hell out of you.”
At least five neighbors said they had complained to the city council about the dogs, but nothing was ever done.
On one occasion, they told a neighbor that they would have to restrain the dogs themselves before the rangers came out to investigate.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Hume City Council for comment.
