A young girl has been taken to hospital after she was attacked by a dog inside a Bunnings outlet in regional Victoria.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to the Bunnings store in Delacombe, near Ballarat, yesterday at 11.10am.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Advanced life support paramedics treated the child, who was taken to Ballarat Base Hospital in a stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
An Ambulance Victoria spokesperson said the child suffered “a lower body injury”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The City of Ballarat said the dog has since been euthanised.<\/p>\n
“The dog was voluntarily surrendered by its owners for euthanasia, which\u00a0took place\u00a0on Wednesday afternoon,” City of Ballarat\u00a0director of development and growth Natalie Robertson\u00a0said.<\/p>\n
“The City of Ballarat will conduct a thorough investigation and is unable to comment further while that process is underway.”<\/p>\n
A Bunnings spokesperson said their thoughts were with the young girl and her family.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We understand the child was bitten by a dog and was treated by emergency services before being taken to hospital for further assessment and treatment,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
\u00a0“We will support\u00a0the relevant authorities with their enquiries.”<\/p>\n
The incident took place inside the Bunnings store.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the store’s entry information, “well-behaved pets that are on a lead” are permitted inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young girl has been taken to hospital after she was attacked by a dog inside a Bunnings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[40366,49927,405181,64877,405183,405184,405182,83244,405185,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-833054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ambulance-victoria","tag-ballarat","tag-ballarat-base-hospital","tag-bunnings","tag-bunnings-attack","tag-bunnings-dog-attack","tag-delacombe","tag-dog-attack","tag-dog-attack-hospital-girl","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833054","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=833054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}