A mother of two young children from East York is nursing serious, painful wounds to her scalp, neck, back, and calf after being mauled by a dog near her home over the weekend.
An East York woman was seriously injured after being mauled by a dog near her home over the weekend and the animal’s owner is now facing criminal charges in connection with the incident.The victim, who CP24 is only identifying as Cara, said that she was out for a stroll with a friend when they encountered a medium-sized, “pitbull-mix” dog without a leash in front of a low-rise apartment building.
Cara said that she and her friend began to slowly walk away across Mortimer when the second leashed dog began “lunging and growingly aggressively” at them, which “triggered the off leash dog to start attacking .” Now on crutches and barely able to get around, Cara told CP24.com that she expects to have a long recovery that will likely include surgery.“I just feel really grateful that I’ve survived this and I want it to not happen again to anyone else.”Meaghan Duggan lives just across the street from where the attack happened.
Scores of people in the community have also been reaching out to the local woman and her family and offering words of support for them on social media. Last summer, Duggan said she and her husband contacted 311 to complain about aggressive “pitbulls or pitbull-mix” dogs running loose near their home, but said that not a lot has happened since then to improve the situation.“We have small kids. It’s terrifying.”
Local Coun. Paula Fletcher, meanwhile, is calling the situation a “very big community safety issue,” adding she’s “expecting an immediate and coordinated response from the city and the police.”
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