One of the dogs that attacked their caretaker 25-year-old Ramdat Singh on Thursday was pregnant and this was responsible for her cross behaviour, the owner yesterday explained.
Businessman Carl Thomas who owns six pit bulls, comprising parents and their offspring told Stabroek News outside his Oleander Gardens residence that it was the `mother’ dog that attacked Singh.
He explained that she is pregnant and when dogs are in that condition they are usually `cross’.
Singh a resident of Cummings Lodge was attacked by two of the animals around 6 pm as he was preparing to feed them. He was bitten countless times on his hands and legs and rushed to the Georgetown Hospital bleeding profusely from the wounds.
After receiving treatment, including an x-ray he was admitted to the open ward in a stable condition.
When Stabroek News visited the man yesterday, he was in pain. The bandages on his hands were bloody. He said that the owner had visited him earlier in the day.
Asked about compensating Singh for his injuries, the businessman said that he is receiving free medical care at the Georgetown Hospital but when he gets well he can come back to work.
“Georgetown Hospital is free… He still has his job” Thomas said adding that Singh had been taking care of his dogs over the last two months without an incident.
He said that Singh lived on his premises and would cook, clean and care for the dogs.
According to Thomas he has the animals for security purposes as when his house was stripped of everything, right down to the window panes there was no one there to look out for him.
“The main purpose for having them is to protect my property…. If you call the police they don’t have transportation and all kinds of things”, he said.
He added that not feeding the animals on time had nothing to do with the attack and continued insisting that it all happened because one of the dogs was pregnant.
Thomas added that it all comes down to how you train a dog, pointing out that pit bulls are more aggressive than any other dog.
He said that when he arrived at home following the attack, the gate was open but the dogs were in the yard, a reflection of their training.
The dogs are nursing chop wounds they sustained at the hands of Singh, who had armed himself with a chopper and a stick to fend them off. (Zoisa Fraser)
