By Zoisa Fraser
Two weeks after three pit bulls almost killed a man in an empty lot in Queenstown, the same breed struck again last evening in Oleander Gardens, East Coast Demerara.
Two of the dogs attacked their 25-year-old caretaker, Ramdat Singh as he was preparing to feed them around 6 yesterday afternoon.
At the Georgetown Public Hospital last night, Singh’s hands and legs were heavily bandaged but were still bleeding profusely. He suffered deep wounds to the upper parts of his legs and countless punctures and lacerations to both hands. Up to press time last night he was still receiving treatment at the medical institution.
Amid pain, the man called for the animals to be put down immediately.
Recounting his experience to Stabroek News as he awaited outside the x-ray department he said that he was about to feed four pit bulls when one who he described as the bad one, attacked him. That dog was later joined by another.
Singh armed himself with a chopper and a piece of wood to fend off the dogs and ended up opening the gate in a bid to escape the animals. However they continued advancing on him and he fell.
According to him, the owner whose name he gave as Carl was not at home at the time and someone residing in the area rushed him to the hospital.
Singh told this newspaper that he had been taking care of the dogs for about three years now and is clueless as to what might have fuelled the attack.
“They got to get rid of them man’, he said, adding that he was residing at the Oleander Gardens address where the attack occurred.
Asked what happened to the animals, Singh said the gate was open and they ran out, so it was likely that they were still roaming the streets.
On May 20, three dogs escaped from their owner’s yard in Forshaw Street and attacked Moheal Raul Ramsaywack, a 20-year-old vagrant who was picking mangoes in an empty lot nearby.
He had told this newspaper in an earlier interview that as he stood under the tree to pick the fruit the dogs suddenly attacked him. He said he tried to run but tripped and fell and they launched a vicious attack. His scalp which was ripped off was reattached in an operation.
The attack on Ramsaywack followed that on Charles Roopchand a security guard of 2C Area H, Lusignan, ECD. He was killed by a pack of dogs on the Ogle Airstrip road while on his way to work.
Pit bull attacks have prompted comments from citizens countrywide with many calling for the animals to be banned or restricted and the legislation governing them to be amended repeatedly.
Dog fighting has also been another of the concerns raised with many calling for the laws to be enforced as this sport trains dogs to be vicious.
