Woman, Dog Recovering After Attack by Two Dogs in Indian Valley
Good Samaritan credited for intervening and preventing worse injuries in Wednesday incident.
A woman and her dog were injured Wednesday when two other dogs attacked them in the rural Indian Valley area, but the attack could have been much worse if a good Samaritan did not intervene, the woman's husband said. The attack was reported at about 7:30 a.m. near the intersection of Indian Valley and McClay roads, according to Carrie Harrington, spokeswoman for the Marin Humane Society. The woman was walking her female Jack Russell terrier when two Chocolate Labrador retrievers without leashes approached and began sniffing the dog, Harrington said. At some point the labs attacked the smaller dog, and when the woman tried to intervene, she was also bitten several times, Novato fire Capt. Bob Royer said. The woman suffered "some pretty bad …
Renee Soda
4:30 pm on Thursday, December 23, 2010
Janna, this is the only article you will find regarding this story. If this WAS a pitbull it would be on every television and on the front page of every paper which is why you think pitbulls are responsible for more attacks. All breeds bite, even little ones.........all dogs can be dangerous when in the wrong hands..........get off the bandwagon and back off the pitbulls. PLEASE more ›