East Ruimveldt plumber mauled by two vicious dogs
…his face ripped from mouth to ear
Patrick Gordon is grateful to be alive following yet another pit bull attack in the city early Monday morning; he was mauled by two dogs belonging to his neighbours.
Speaking at the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday morning Mr. Gordon said he was rushed to the institution by his neighbour, Brenda Archer, who heard his screams for help.
According to the injured man, at about 03:00h, he was heading to his East Ruimveldt residence when he suddenly heard a loud growl and then a pit bull lunged at his throat.
The 54-year-old man said he desperately tried to hold off the animal and then another one rushed at him and began tearing at his face.
He spoke of excruciating pain and he screamed for help.
He told the Guyana Chronicle that his face was torn from mouth to ear before his neighbor came out of her house and hauled the dogs off.
Gordon now has stitches on both sides of his face, on one side running from his mouth to his ear.
He is the third victim of the very pit bulls who usually get away from their owner’s premises and lie on the road waiting for unsuspecting passersby.
Gordon, a plumber, said that the owner of the dogs offered him a $250,000 settlement.
But he refused, since he will be unable to work for some time and then there is matter of his face being disfigured.
He said the police visited him at the hospital the following day but he was unable to speak. The police promised to return, but up to yesterday he had not done so.
Gordon said that only his relatives visited him at the hospital, and so he decided to have the matter of the pit bull attack highlighted in the newspapers.
On May 21, 2008, a vagrant was scalped and injured by several dogs in Queenstown in the city, when he went into an empty lot to pick mangoes. The dogs got into the empty lot through a hole in the fence next door.
And then on April 16, 2008, Charles Roopchand, a security guard of 2C Area H, Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, was killed by a pack of pit bulls on the Ogle Airstrip road while on his way to work. That same morning, the late Desire London, wife of Bishop Philbert London, and resident of 123 Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara, was bitten on her arms and leg by the same animals.
Earlier this year, full-blooded members of the breed bit two Tucville residents as well as two employees of the Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
This incident occurred after a woman in the area was alleged to have let loose the dogs on a group of children who had been annoying her.
Then there was the case last year when two pit bulls attacked a North Ruimveldt jogger, seriously injuring him. He had to undergo several operations to repair his damaged ligaments in his legs.