At 1:30pm on on Sunday, K (aged 7) asked if he could go out and play in the street. As it was sunny and quiet, we said OK. So he ran off up the road to call for his friends. On the way up the street, he passed a woman sitting on the front step of her house whilst behind her, in the open doorway, were 2 German Shepherd dogs. As K ran past, one of the dogs got past her, jumped the gate and attacked him. K tried to run away and either fell or was knocked over by the dog who held him down and bit his back.<\/p>\n
The woman eventually managed to call the dog back, took the dog into the house (as one might expect) but then went into the house herself and closed the door without even checking to see how badly my son was hurt. There were no other children or adults out at the time to help him, so K had to get back to our house by himself.<\/p>\n
We had no idea what had happened until he turned up on the doorstep screaming.<\/p>\n
R then had to carry him to a walk-in clinic where a nurse took one look at K and immediately sent us on to A&E at the local children’s hospital. So we spent most of the afternoon there whilst his wound’s were assessed, cleaned, butterfly stitched and dressed. The lower left quarter of his back had been scratched by claws and teeth, I saw at least 4 bruise impressions of teeth and there was a very deep puncture wound just above his left kidney which needed extensive cleaning.<\/p>\n
From the hospital we went to the local polic station (which, luckily, is only next door to the hospital) and filed a report. We then went home, grabbed something to eat and went straight back out to the local clinic again as K’s dressing was already coming loose and we were concerned about the continued bleeding.<\/p>\n
At 8:30pm, wound re-dressed and armed with a replacement dressing, we finally got home.<\/p>\n
K’s at home now – on antibiotics and painkillers. All things considered, his injuries are lighter than they could have been. He is a small 7 year old. This was a big dog. Falling over during the attack may well have been the best thing that he could have done. He’s not in a lot of pain, as long as he doesn’t have to bend or move too much, and seems to have recovered from the ordeal quite rapidly – although what the long term effects will be, we don’t yet know. The police, so far, have reacted very quickly, so both R and I are also having to deal with talking to them at various points and try to cope with our own delayed reactions to the whole thing. I don’t think either of us will be exactly compos mentis for a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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