4-Year-Old Loses Foot After Dad’s Police Dog Bites

February 13, 2015
Los Angeles

A military officer’s 4-year-old son had his feet amputated after a father’s military dog attacked.

The mauling happened Sunday afternoon in Hesperia, California, while Michael Mastaler, a Rialto Police Department officer, was upstairs and his son went outdoors

Hunter, Mastaler’s son, had been personification video games, though went outward to demeanour for his mother, unknowingly that she had left shopping, a San Bernardino Sun reports.

Mastaler’s military dog, Jango, was outward though not in a kennel, and pounded a small boy.

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Neighbors listened Hunter roar and called 911. Other neighbors pennyless by a backyard blockade to help. Witnesses told authorities they saw Jango, a German Shepherd, with a mouth wrapped around Hunter’s foot,

â€œMy sister told me to run over there and see what it was, and we ran and we saw this small child he was removing chewed up, his leg, by a dog,â€ a neighbor identified as Anthony, told CBS Los Angeles.

â€œI kicked a dog as tough as we could. It still didnâ€™t recover him, so we grabbed him by a mouth,â€ another neighbor told a station.

The reasons for a conflict are unclear. Neighbors managed to examine open Jango’s jaws. When Michael Mastaler listened a commotion, he ran to a backyard and got a dog off his son.

Rialto Police Capt. Randy DeAnda, told a Victorville Daily Press that K-9 officers like Jango live with their handlers. Although a dogs do bond with a families, it’s “only underneath approach organisation of a handler.”

Paramedics who arrived on a stage rushed Hunter to a internal sanatorium where his feet and ankle were amputated, ABC7.com reports.

Jango is on a 10-day quarantine during a cage facility,

Friends of a Mastalers’ have started a GoFundMe page in Hunter’s name

Authorities told ABC7.com that Jango will substantially not a be a military dog anymore and could be euthanized.

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