Attack dog notorious in village

The dog that attacked a Matangi woman this week was involved in an earlier attack on a passing dog.

The partially blind and wheelchair-bound elderly woman who was attacked by a doberman in Matangi on Wednesday night is angry the dog had been impounded a fortnight earlier.

Seventy-five-year-old Dawn Brocket, who had to undergo surgery and a skin graft for the puncture wound in her arm, believes the owner should have better restrained the animal and another dog on the property after the first incident. MORE>>