Successful dog attack: Woman mauled by Rottweilers in Perth
A woman was saved from death by her two Rottweilers when police opened fire on the dogs.
The 31-year-old woman was attacked by the canines in the backyard of a house at Pitta Corner in Success, south Perth, at 4.37pm on Saturday.
She suffered ‘severe bite wounds to her arms and legs’ and was rushed to Royal Perth Hospital after being treated by paramedics from St Johns Ambulance.
A neighbor called 000 after hearing a commotion in the backyard before police intervened and an officer shot one of the dogs.
A woman has been rushed to hospital after a life-threatening abuse by her two Rottweilers, one of which had to be shot
A neighbor called 000 after hearing a commotion in the backyard of a house at Pitta Corner in Success, in Perth’s southern suburbs. When police arrived, the attack was in progress
“While police attended, police observed two Rottweilers attacking a woman in her home,” WA Police said in a statement.
‘Due to the extremely aggressive nature of the dogs and the ongoing risk to human life, a police firearm was discharged to stop the attack.
“One of the dogs was seriously injured.”
Police had to lock the second dog in a garage until Cockburn city rangers arrived.
It is understood the seriously injured dog was euthanized on Saturday.
The attack comes after several tragic incidents involving the same breed this year.
A British woman died this month after being mauled on her arms and legs by two Rottweilers in August.
Marie Stevens, 40, was attacked at around 5.45pm on Friday, August 18 and taken to hospital where she was treated and later discharged.
But police were called by the North West Ambulance Service to Ms Stevens’ home on Holden Road, in Brighton-le-Sands, on September 3 to reports she had collapsed and died at home.
In February this year, two Rottweilers mauled a five-week-old baby in New South Wales.
The pets struck without warning while the girl slept during a family barbecue.
Friends of little Mia Jade Riley’s family have revealed how the child was sleeping next to a table of six to eight adults at her grandfather’s home in Moruya, on the NSW south coast, when the tragedy occurred about 10.40pm.
They said the dogs were innocently dozing about ten feet away from the crib when, for no apparent reason, they suddenly jumped on the sleeping newborn.
WA Police said they shot the Rottweiler on Saturday due to the dogs’ ‘extremely aggressive nature’