At 6.30am on Friday 29th November my Chihuahua puppy Marty was brutally attacked. We were on our usual walk around the Millennial Parks on Gleadless Road when a dog that looked like a dark German Shepard ran towards us directly outside the Sheaf View pub. Marty was on the lead, the other dog was not. The owner chased after his dog presumably knowing what was about to unfold. The dog grabbed Marty by the head and shook him wildly. When the owner arrived I screamed at him to get his dog to stop, he was reluctant to get involved and incompetent at handling his dog. After some time the dog released its jaws from Marty’s head. I wrapped him in my arms and took him home and straight to the emergency vet.

The left side of Marty’s face is completely destroyed and he has has lost his eye.

We have launched a social and general media campaign to raise awareness of this attack in the hope that it will prevent a further incident. The response from this has been a great comfort to us.

Marty has just had surgery and is now making a good recovery. We hope to have him home soon. He is currently in a specialist vets in Wakefield and the fees are at £6000 so far. If we could receive any contribution towards these fees we would be hugely grateful.