Family pet dies after savage dog attack
DEAN Watson, 11, woke to his mum screaming – and now his pet dog is dead.
Running to the front door of his Regency Downs home, Dean saw his mum, Christine Watson, fleeing from two dogs.
“I saw mum yelling at these dogs, they were trying to grab at her,” Dean said.
“They looked like they were going to have a piece of her.”
Not knowing what to do, Dean armed himself with a “massive big stick” and rushed toward the dogs.
Mrs Watson, who lives on a 1.5 acre property, said she had just let the family’s 13-year-old staffy, Sky outside just after dawn.
“She only got like five metres and these dogs are on her,” she said.
She saw two big dogs, one brown and one black and said the brown one grabbed Sky in its teeth and ran with her.
Running after the dogs and yelling at them to drop Sky, Mrs Watson found herself in danger.
“They turned on me and started barking at me, then they went to attack me,” she said.
“They could have ripped us to pieces, especially that brown one – he was so angry and just launching himself at me.”
Mrs Watson climbed inside an old truck parked at the back of the property.
Once the dogs had finally retreated, she ran to Sky and found she was covered in blood.
“There was blood everywhere and she had holes everywhere in her,” she said. “Her lung was literally coming out of her ribcage because they had hurt her so bad.”
Sky was put down after a vet advised nothing could be done to save her. The family spent the morning burying her in their backyard.