The Gold Coast Bulletin

Pet loses leg in wild attack

- AMANDA ROBBEMOND amanda.robbemond@news.com.au

A WOMAN has been left devastated after her pet dog was mauled by another dog just metres from their home – for the second time.

In 2015, Lynette Johnston was forced to euthanise her 12-year-old softcoated wheaten terrier Kyla after a dog from a nearby Oxley Drive property savagely attacked her on a public walkway.

Last Saturday, history repeated itself as another dog, allegedly from the same property, grabbed her 13-month-old dog – also called Kyla and of the same breed – by the leg and “bit (it) off”.

Luckily, this Kyla survived.

Ms Johnston said she was walking home from Lions Park at Jabiru Island around 7.15am when she spotted the bull terrier-type dog on the beach close by.

“As soon as it saw us it just shot up and just jumped straight on top (of Kyla), bit her leg off, it was just hanging by a muscle,” she said.

“The noise was horrendous. (She’s) had her leg chopped off at the shoulder, her front leg, it’s dreadful.”

Kyla was taken straight to the Paradise Point Vet where her leg had to be amputated.

The retired Paradise Point local said she always looked to see whether or not the gate was open at the property when she was walking her dog.

“If you can’t walk along out on the footpath in the public, something is terribly wrong,” she said.

The attack has left Ms Johnston $2500 out of pocket and she said she was determined to take it to the civil tribunal “as a matter of principle”.

Overnight, more than 50 Paradise Point locals including councillor Cameron Caldwell came together for a community meeting where the attack was discussed.

One resident described the dog who allegedly attacked Kyla as a “large, hunting dog” while another man said the dog had once tried to attack him near the canal behind Oxley Drive.

A Gold Coast City Council spokeswoma­n said they were aware of the latest dog attack and were investigat­ing.

The spokeswoma­n confirmed there had been previous complaints.

 ?? Picture: RICHARD GOSLING ?? Lynette Johnston was walking Kyla back from Jabiru Park when a bull terrier-type dog attacked her 13-monthold soft-coated wheaten terrier and ripped its leg off.
Picture: RICHARD GOSLING Lynette Johnston was walking Kyla back from Jabiru Park when a bull terrier-type dog attacked her 13-monthold soft-coated wheaten terrier and ripped its leg off.

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