A woman victim of a terrifying attack by a pit bull in Montreal

Ten days after having undergone a terrifying attack by a Pitbull. Moreover, a Montrealer wishes to warn against the unpredictable and hypocritical character of the animal.

“If I hadn’t been beaten until the end. In addition, it is sure that I would be dead today,” says Mélanie Chartrand, still shaken.

At the end of June, she was bitten on both arms by Hope, the female dog of her spouse’s son. However, the animal had already come to spend time with M^me Chartrand. Nevertheless, “I loved it. Meanwhile, It was a good doggie, she got on my knees and we gave herself hugs, ”reports the victim.

Cries heard by the neighbors

But at the time of the attack. Moreover, while his spouse and the master of Hope were absent, M^me Chartrand heard an argument between Hope and his dog Jackie.

She wanted to intervene and the pitbull bit her arm. Consequently, “My two knees dropped and I came across,” she says.

Hearing his cries, his neighbors called 911.

M^me Chartrand painfully moved in the embrasure of another room in his house. the dog always hung on her arm. With the door of the dog’s mouth, she managed to make him let go and lock him up.

“The look. She chewed my arm and she liked it. This look will be engraved in my head for the rest of my days, ”she continues, visibly terrified.

The emergency services arrived shortly after, when she began to weaken. She would have lost two liters of blood. suffered around twenty lacerations, depending on what M^me Chartrand heard during woman victim terrifying attack pit his hospitalization.

Call for prevention

You m^me Chartrand did not fear pit bulls before. the incident convinced it of the danger of the animal.

“These are dogs that have been designed for fights. I have the impression that it can happen to anyone. anytime, ”says the lady, who launched a socio -financing campaign, since she will have to be a good time for work.

M^me Chartrand woman victim terrifying attack pit is indignant that the master of Hope does not wish to make his dog euthanize. “If it was one of my dogs who had done that, he would already be euthanized,” she says.

She made a complaint to the police. she said, but the owner would not have presented himself with the veterinarian for the evaluation of the beast.

The newspaper contacted the woman victim terrifying attack pit latter, but he refused to comment.

If the pit bulls have often made the headlines. the city of Montreal does not prohibit any race of dogs on its territory. “Aggressiveness is not specific to a type of dog,” you can read on its website.

However. it is possible to report an aggressive dog and there is a register that brings together dogs who are potentially dangerous.