"I thought it was playing": Bulldog mauls child at cafe
Shocking footage has emerged of the horrific moment a dog mauled a six-year-old boy outside a popular Gold Coast cafe.
Andy Bracek and his son Teddy were walking down Pacific Parade in Currumbin just after 8 am on Sunday when they stopped to grab a coffee from Tommy’s Italian.
CCTV showed Teddy approaching a man and began petting his British bulldog before the animal attacked him.
Mr Bracek was then seen running toward his son trying to get him away from the vicious attack which left him with a “horrendous wound” on his arm.
He claims that his son asked the dog’s owner if he could pet him to which he was told “of course he can”.
“At first when the dog jumped up I thought it was playing,” Mr Bracek told Courier Mail.
“But I quickly realised it was attacking Teddy when I heard him screaming. The owner then made a .... half-assed effort to restrain the dog.”
Mr Bracek was left fuming when the dog’s owner left the scene without providing his details to report the incident.
“If he came back and sorted it everything would’ve been okay but I’m pi**ed off and disturbed that this man has put his dog’s welfare before a child’s.”
Teddy was taken to Griffith University Hospital in a stable condition where he underwent surgery leaving him with internal and external stitches.
“It’s especially awful to see on a small child. It takes up a third of his forearm,” Mr Bracek said.
The local council has been notified of the horrific attack with investigations ongoing.
Watch the footage here.
Image: CCTV