A distraught dog owner has spoken of how a pair of ‘lethal’ dogs savaged her beloved Westie on Monday.
Pensioner Janet Gay, from Burgh Heath Road, said two "greyhound-type" dogs attacked her pet Robbie on a bridleway in Epsom at 4.30pm.
Mrs Gay said that she had been walking Robbie down a bridleway from Treadwell Road to Burgh Heath Road at the time of the attack.
She said: "The dogs came out of nowhere. The white one first, with its muzzle hanging round its neck, followed by the black one."
She said the dogs latched on to Robbie for about five minutes and inflicted multiple puncture wounds, including one that just missed his eye.
His ear was torn, his back scraped and his private parts injured.
She said: "It was horrific. He has been torn to ribbons. He is lucky to escape with his life."
Robbie has received treatment at a vets in Langton Avenue, Ewell, but there is a danger that he has further internal injuries.
She said: "I want to tell my compatriot dog walkers to be on alert. I want to warn other people about these dogs."
After the incident she rang the police, but she does not know the identity of the woman walking the dogs on the day of the attack or a man she has seen them out with before.
She said: "You don’t stand about with your dog pouring blood to exchange details."
The attack in Epsom comes after Denis Fenton, 73, was attacked by one of a pack of canines in Nonsuch Park earlier this month.
Guided walk leader Mr Fenton, of Park Avenue East in Stoneleigh, is now calling on Sutton Council to limit the numbers of dogs people can walk in the park at any one time.
In April a shocked woman watched in horror as her neighbour’s Labradoodle was attacked by two "Staffie-type" dogs on Epsom Common.
The dog Molly had to have an operation and was left with ‘six inch’ stitches on her right side.
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