The mother of the 10-year-old boy who was attacked by a Rottweiler last Friday in Arrecife has clarified that in reality it was two dogs that bit her son. According to her account, one of them was loose and was the first to attack the minor. The owner then ran over to try to stop the attack, but he had a second Rottweiler tied up that also ended up attacking the child. "I thought I was going to die," the little boy later told his mother, who cannot forget that phrase: "It was etched in my mind."
The woman has already filed a complaint this Monday with the National Police, in which she specifies that both dogs were without a muzzle, despite the fact that it is mandatory in this type of breed. Along with the complaint, she has also provided her son's injury report, which showed two wounds on his arm of two centimeters each and another on his thigh of 12 centimeters long, requiring stitches in all of them, as well as "several scratches on his side."
The events took place at around 6:00 p.m., when the boy was playing with his friends in an open field in the San Francisco Javier neighborhood. Then the owner of the dogs appeared, "one with a leash and the other completely free." According to his mother, who was working at the time and was alerted by another mother, the dogs began to approach the children and her son ran away scared, but was reached by the dog that was loose.
Afterwards, the situation worsened when the owner arrived with the second Rottweiler, which according to his mother was the one that caused the wound on his son's leg, since he was not wearing a muzzle either. "The boy felt like his leg was being torn off," she says.
Remembering the "great scare" they experienced, the woman celebrates that it did not have more serious consequences. Now, she hopes that responsibilities will be determined, since she also maintains that "it is not the first time it has happened." In fact, she assures that a neighbor has told her that those dogs also bit him a year and a half ago. "Now he regrets not having reported it," she says.
"For me, the dog is not to blame, the owner is. I don't know about sacrificing it, but at least taking it away, I think so," she says. And furthermore, the mother affirms that the man "continues to take the dogs out without a muzzle", despite what happened three days ago, when he even accompanied the family to the hospital where the child was treated. "If the day after this you take the dog out again without a muzzle, it's that you haven't learned anything. He continues as if nothing happened until a greater misfortune happens," she concludes.