Mother wants dog laws enforced

DOG ATTACKS TWO-YEAROLD BOY IN QUEBEC

The mother of a Quebec boy who was mauled by a pit bull-type dog last week says the rules regarding dangerous dogs need to be better applied and enforced.

“If it’s either by law or by forbidding that breed of dog, somebody needs to do something,” Cleothilde LefebvreBergeron said Monday. “But no amount of laws will (matter) if no one is looking for people who are infringing the laws, it’s pointless.”

She was on her way home from the park with her son Hugo Giroux, 2, when a pit bull bolted toward him, unmuzzled and with no owner in sight in Gatineau’s Aylmer district.

“He went straight to the stroller, it happened so crazy fast,” LefebvreBergeron said. “I remember my son saying in French ‘a dog!’ and he bit once and I pulled him away and he went at it again, so I pulled (the dog) down and put all my weight on it.”

The dog got away from LefebvreBergeron and Gatineau police later found the animal. They are investigating whether charges should be laid.

Lefebvre-Bergeron said the dog bit her son in the face, injuring his upper lip and left cheek.

She said she also learned from police the dog was staying with the owner’s parents.

“It got away, I have no clue how,” she said. “But there was no one to be seen with the dog, he was completely free in the street.”