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Mickey has been fearful of dogs since the attack, often staying close to his mother. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n
An Auckland mother says her 10-year-old son is still traumatised more than a month after he was attacked by an out-of-control dog while riding his bike home in Belmont, on the North Shore.<\/p>\n
On May 13, Anna and her son Mickey were cycling along Lake Rd when they turned onto Bardia St, where a woman was struggling to control her dog.<\/p>\n
Anna, who did not want her last name used, was cycling a short distance behind her son and told the Herald she initially thought the dog had merely scared Mickey because the owner never told her he had been bitten.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe said, \u2018Oh, I hope your son is fine. I hope your son is not upset.\u2019 So I didn\u2019t know what happened,\u201d Anna said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I got home, I found my son shaking, crying, hiding himself in the corner and his left leg full of blood.\u201d<\/p>\n
A neighbour who witnessed the attack later told Anna the dog had first tried to bite its owner before turning and attacking Mickey as he rode past.<\/p>\n
Mickey was rushed to hospital, where he underwent treatment and later received a tetanus shot as a precaution.<\/p>\n
Mickey has been fearful of dogs since the attack, often staying close to his mother. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n
Anna said the dog\u2019s owner later told her it was a rescue dog and she did not know its history.<\/p>\n
More than a month later, Mickey remains fearful of dogs, and Anna has started walking him to and from school because he is too scared to go alone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he sees any dogs, not very close to him, but if he sees dogs, he stops.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said he often seems frightened on trips out of the house, staying close to her side.<\/p>\n
The family was left about $1900 out of pocket after paying for the boy\u2019s medical treatment, vaccinations and travel costs.<\/p>\n
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The family has racked up nearly $2000 in medical and travel expenses after the attack. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n
Anna said her husband also had to take leave from work to attend appointments before working overtime to make up the lost hours.<\/p>\n
Auckland Council told her its investigation had concluded and advised her to pursue any claim for medical costs through the Disputes Tribunal.<\/p>\n
Acting animal management manager Nikki Cripps told the Herald the owner had reported the attack and the dog had been seized.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing an investigation, the dog was released back to its owner with a menacing dog classification, meaning that the dog must be desexed, microchipped and muzzled when in public.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe owner was also issued with an infringement notice for failing to control their dog.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cripps said this outcome was \u201cin line\u201d with enforcement guidelines.<\/p>\n
Dog attacks have come under increasing scrutiny in New Zealand after a series of serious and sometimes fatal incidents.<\/p>\n
Last weekend, a Palmerston North family was devastated after their 6-year-old Spoodle, Rory, was fatally mauled by a larger dog during a riverside walk.<\/p>\n
Rory\u2019s owner, Nathan, has since appealed for information to help identify the other dog\u2019s owner.<\/p>\n
He said stronger dog control enforcement is needed to protect the community from further attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Auckland mother says her 10-year-old son is still traumatised more than a month after he was attacked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,22065,63,784,360028,5315,85],"class_list":["post-749649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-auckland","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-dogattack","tag-investigation","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}