A DOG owner has told a court how he was injured as he desperately tried to save his pet from being savaged by a large Rottweiler.
Bolton Crown Court heard how Billy, a male Rottweiler, leapt at the end section of metal fencing surrounding a building site on Tempest Road, Chew Moor, pushing part of it over and escaping onto the pavement before flinging himself at Michael O’Brien’s whippet, named Polo.
“He went for Polo with some savagery and some speed,” Mr O’Brien told a jury.
“Polo stood no chance.”
As Billy attacked the whippet Mr O’Brien, who was holding his pet’s lead, told how he was pulled backwards and fell, hitting his head on the pavement. He was left with a cut head which needed gluing in hospital, concussion and whiplash and has since been diagnosed with PTSD.
Christine Wilkinson, who was at the semi-detached bungalow she was renovating, eventually managed to grab Billy.
Wilkinson, aged 51, who is representing herself in court, denies being in charge of a dog which was dangerously out of control and injured Mr O’Brien.
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