Neighborhood Dog Attack Leaves Woman, Welsh Terrier With Vicious Wounds: Police

One Riverside woman and her dog were attacked earlier this month by a pair of canines that left the woman with a hand injury and her 20-pound Welsh Terrier with tendon damage and deep puncture wounds, Riverside police announced in a release Monday.

Cops responded to a call about a dog bite initially around 3 p.m. on Feb. 3, Chief Tom Weitzel said in the release. The dog’s owner said she had been walking her dog in the 100 block of Akenside Road when she started to hear escalating barking. When she turned around, she said, two dogs were chasing her.

The woman told police she ran back to her house, also on Akenside Road, and was able to fend off the dogs until she reached her driveway. Her dog was ultimately attacked while she was trying to pull it through the front door with her, but said she was able to pull her dog out of the mouth of one of the attackers.

According to Weitzel, the two attacking dogs were determined to be neighborhood Labrador retriever mixes who had gotten out of a fenced-in yard in the 100 block of Akenside. The man who owns the pair of dogs told cops his kids had left the yard gate open on accident, resulting in the Labradors chasing down the smaller dog and its owner. He was cited by Riverside police for the incident.

The Welsh Terrier who’d been victimized was left with injuries in five different places, including deep puncture wounds to the hind leg, tendon damage, damage to arterial veins and other lacerations. The dog required drains, surgery and stitches, according to Weitzel’s release.

Weitzel used the attack as an opportunity to remind dog owners in Riverside to keep their pets in check.

He said all dog owners in Riverside should be “vigilant and keep their dogs in fenced-in yards, obtain proper licensing, have dogs fully vaccinated, leashed when walking and train dogs to respond to commands.”

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