The owner of a pack of five dogs that allegedly terrorised a North Canterbury neighbourhood and attacked a woman and her puppy will be prosecuted.
Larissa Corboy needed surgery after the pack of dogs set on her and her dog when she was out for a run.
The Waimakariri District Council has confirmed the owner will be prosecuted.
Four of the five dogs have been destroyed but Larissa Corboy says the fifth one, now classified as menacing, is the most dangerous of all.
Corby and her dog Mouse were mauled by a pack of five dogs in late June while out for a run on a public track in the rural Canterbury community of Loburn.
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"My first reaction was to get Mouse out of the way. That's when two of the staffy-pitbulls latched onto him, and I picked him up," Corboy told Newshub.
"That's when one bit my butt and the other grabbed my ankle and pulled me to the ground."
Corboy says the owner of the dogs, in a car behind them, was powerless to call them off as they tore into her and 6-month-old Mouse.
"He yelled at me to kick them and I was thinking, 'I'm not going to be able to kick all these dogs'," Corboy said.
When the owner did get out of the car, the dogs turned on him as he tried to intervene.
"He was trying to pull them off and he eventually got on the ground and held Mouse around the neck so he was protected around his jugular," Coroboy told Newshub.
Corboy was even more horrified when the owner put the dogs in his car and took off after the attack, leaving her and Mouse badly injured on the isolated track in the dark
The owner pulled over further up the road and called an ambulance for his own injuries.
Corboy has spent the last two days in hospital having surgery to repair the deep bite wounds on her leg.
Mouse also needed stitches for his wounds.
Her family say the area is popular with runners and even children on their ponies.
"[I] probably didn't really reflect on it until we were in the hospital," said Corboy.
"This could have been a whole lot worse than it actually was."
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