WATCH: A Coquitlam man is speaking out about a dog attack on Burke Mountain that left him and his dog bloodied and bruised. Jill Bennett reports. Warning: story includes graphic images.
An animal control officer was called to a Coquitlam home in the wake of a serious dog attack.
Court Pilon was taking his dog Bishop for a walk in Galloway Park on Thursday when he says two dogs on a leash got away from their owner and attacked.
Pilon suffered a bite to his hand when he tried to pull the dogs apart. An injured Bishop then ran home.
“I took Bishop and saw how severe the situation was,” says family member Lexus Pilon. “He was bleeding all over, couldn’t even walk. He was making one of the worst sounds I’ve ever heard. He was in so much pain.”
Bishop, normally an energetic three-year-old shepherd cross, is now recovering after surgery to stitch up a deep cut and other injuries.
The Pilon family wants to know why the dogs were being walked by someone who couldn’t control them and they want to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
“I’m not a person to say, ‘OK, let’s put some dogs down.’ They’re animals and it’s the owner’s responsibility to have control over their animals,” says mother Racquel Pilon. “I guess what I would want to see is them definitely muzzled.”
The owner of the dogs involved in the attack lives in a nearby home.
“She gets a little excited over other dogs, so I try to get control of it, but that day I couldn’t get control,” says the dogs’ owner, who did not want to be identified.
The owner says she paid Bishop’s vet bill and is working to keep her dogs under control.
An animal control officer is investigating. Under Coquitlam bylaws a dog can be deemed aggressive or vicious. If designated vicious, it is required to be muzzled while in public.
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