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It's taken me a few days to think about this and post about it, it's rather long and convoluted so please bear with me, its one of THE most upsetting things I have ever witnessed.
Every morning before work I am part of a dog walking group round our local park, there's a group of us, various ages, various breeds/size of dogs. Each day we walk five times around the park, have a laugh, put the world to rights and our dogs run and play happily together.
There are a few houses that back onto the park, all have very high fences, but over one of the fences a blue staffie kept looking and barking, one of the walkers has knocked on the door and told them that one day their dog will get over the fence and we have all been worried about this happening.
Last Tuesday, we were all happily walking round, all of a sudden a BLACK staffie shot over the fence and attacked Sandy, a small terrier, his owner (73 years old man with a hip replacement) fell to the ground and fought the dog, eventually it was prized off with the help of two more men, Sandy was badly hurt, he now has 150 stitches in his neck, 2 drains and is not allowed out for what will be quite a while.
The BLUE dog then turned on Lenny a very small nine year old Jack Russell and shock it silly, his owner 56 year old man with severe heart problems, has an IED thingy to kick start his heart again) fell onto the dog and fought with it, he rescued Lenny and got bitten by the black dog on his arm badly.
Someone got a lead and wrapped it around the black dogs neck and pulled it away.
We also have a man (73 years old) who'd had a pacemaker fitted the day before in the group, someone got him and his dog away safely. Another man in his 70's helped to fight one of the dogs off, his dog was safe. There was other people there who helped etc.
In the meantime the BLUE staffie ran at my dog, nipped him but did no more, my dog has a small puncture wound, I had the presence of mind to hit the dog with the metal end of the lead and it buggered off, in the meantime I was on the phone to the police and ambulance.
After a few minutes the dogs owners (two chavvy girls, well we are in Essex) turned up, one was mouthy and the other was sobbing, it transpired that the Black dog had attacked twice before and she said that they had tried to get it put down twice and the vets had refused, was was also saying that the Blue one was gentle and wouldn't do anything, The trappy girl gave a load of mouth but after a few choice words from Moi she soon calmed down when faced with having a bloody good battering lol (well I was bloody furious).
The police and ambulance arrived, 8 coppers and two ambulances, Sandy was rushed to the vets, his owner went to the GP for a tetanus as he had a cut, Lenny was taken to the vet and his owner was taken to hospital, he was checked out, and had a few stitches in arm.
The coppers took statements and details, the girls were talked to and were told that the Black dog was to be destroyed, which they promptly did, the Blue one is still alive apparently but we are assured its either kept indoors or has been taken away to another place. We have been told that they also have a Old English Sheepdog in the house that the two staffies had been attacking and its covered in scars etc, they also had two very small children in the house and were adamant the dogs were perfectly safe with them. I'm not sure but I think the coppers threatened to charge the girls with keeping dangerous dogs.
Tuesday and Wednesday I was in a hell of a state, everytime I closed my eyes I could see the whole thing again, I had no sleep and when I did drop off I woke suddenly crying and shouting for my dog apparently, my hubby said on Thursday to get my arse to the doctors, which I did, it seems I have suffered trauma and have been put on strong Diazepam each night to relax me, I feel a lot better for having had a good nights sleep but am still so upset about it all, and now when we walk around the park we are all on edge watching for that garden even though were assured the blue dog has gone, its so bad that this morning when our dogs (the ones left) started playing today I freaked and had to leave as I was so scared, I'm even crying now as I'm typing this. Thank god we're going on holiday on Tuesday, Bailey (our dog) goes to a very good Doggysitter and she takes him to a different park and is very careful with him.
The dogs owners have offered to pay all vet bills.
So, that's it in a nutshell, what I want to know for the others not really myself, but can Sandy and Lennie's owners sue the owners for say stress, time for going to vets, travel, out of pocket expenses etc ?
Any help would be really appreciated, thank you.
Every morning before work I am part of a dog walking group round our local park, there's a group of us, various ages, various breeds/size of dogs. Each day we walk five times around the park, have a laugh, put the world to rights and our dogs run and play happily together.
There are a few houses that back onto the park, all have very high fences, but over one of the fences a blue staffie kept looking and barking, one of the walkers has knocked on the door and told them that one day their dog will get over the fence and we have all been worried about this happening.
Last Tuesday, we were all happily walking round, all of a sudden a BLACK staffie shot over the fence and attacked Sandy, a small terrier, his owner (73 years old man with a hip replacement) fell to the ground and fought the dog, eventually it was prized off with the help of two more men, Sandy was badly hurt, he now has 150 stitches in his neck, 2 drains and is not allowed out for what will be quite a while.
The BLUE dog then turned on Lenny a very small nine year old Jack Russell and shock it silly, his owner 56 year old man with severe heart problems, has an IED thingy to kick start his heart again) fell onto the dog and fought with it, he rescued Lenny and got bitten by the black dog on his arm badly.
Someone got a lead and wrapped it around the black dogs neck and pulled it away.
We also have a man (73 years old) who'd had a pacemaker fitted the day before in the group, someone got him and his dog away safely. Another man in his 70's helped to fight one of the dogs off, his dog was safe. There was other people there who helped etc.
In the meantime the BLUE staffie ran at my dog, nipped him but did no more, my dog has a small puncture wound, I had the presence of mind to hit the dog with the metal end of the lead and it buggered off, in the meantime I was on the phone to the police and ambulance.
After a few minutes the dogs owners (two chavvy girls, well we are in Essex) turned up, one was mouthy and the other was sobbing, it transpired that the Black dog had attacked twice before and she said that they had tried to get it put down twice and the vets had refused, was was also saying that the Blue one was gentle and wouldn't do anything, The trappy girl gave a load of mouth but after a few choice words from Moi she soon calmed down when faced with having a bloody good battering lol (well I was bloody furious).
The police and ambulance arrived, 8 coppers and two ambulances, Sandy was rushed to the vets, his owner went to the GP for a tetanus as he had a cut, Lenny was taken to the vet and his owner was taken to hospital, he was checked out, and had a few stitches in arm.
The coppers took statements and details, the girls were talked to and were told that the Black dog was to be destroyed, which they promptly did, the Blue one is still alive apparently but we are assured its either kept indoors or has been taken away to another place. We have been told that they also have a Old English Sheepdog in the house that the two staffies had been attacking and its covered in scars etc, they also had two very small children in the house and were adamant the dogs were perfectly safe with them. I'm not sure but I think the coppers threatened to charge the girls with keeping dangerous dogs.
Tuesday and Wednesday I was in a hell of a state, everytime I closed my eyes I could see the whole thing again, I had no sleep and when I did drop off I woke suddenly crying and shouting for my dog apparently, my hubby said on Thursday to get my arse to the doctors, which I did, it seems I have suffered trauma and have been put on strong Diazepam each night to relax me, I feel a lot better for having had a good nights sleep but am still so upset about it all, and now when we walk around the park we are all on edge watching for that garden even though were assured the blue dog has gone, its so bad that this morning when our dogs (the ones left) started playing today I freaked and had to leave as I was so scared, I'm even crying now as I'm typing this. Thank god we're going on holiday on Tuesday, Bailey (our dog) goes to a very good Doggysitter and she takes him to a different park and is very careful with him.
The dogs owners have offered to pay all vet bills.
So, that's it in a nutshell, what I want to know for the others not really myself, but can Sandy and Lennie's owners sue the owners for say stress, time for going to vets, travel, out of pocket expenses etc ?
Any help would be really appreciated, thank you.
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