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A man who was bitten twice trying to stop a savage attack on a woman by a pair of dogs said he only did what anyone else would have done if they came across such a horrifying scene.
Robin Gallie was on his way to the drugstore Saturday when he came upon a 25-year-old woman being mauled by a pair of aggressive dogs near the corner of Lamoureux Drive and Des Epinettes Avenue in Orleans.
“She was being attacked, emphasis on attacked,” said Gallie. “It wasn’t just two dogs nipping at her. She was being attacked savagely.”
Gallie immediately stopped his car and jumped out. He called 911 and then honked his horn in vain in an attempt to scare the dogs off. The woman was pleading for help and trying desperately to shield her face and neck with her arms as the dogs circled around her, Gallie said.
“I just got out of the car and started yelling at the dogs. I just yelled ‘stop it, get off.’ I was stomping my foot,” said the 66-year-old investment adviser. “They didn’t give a darn about me.”
That’s when a woman appeared at the front door of a nearby house. Gallie said he yelled at a woman to hand him a broom – or anything – he could use to hit the dogs.
The woman had just handed Gallie a red-handled broom when a person in a white SUV swerved between the woman and the dogs. The driver told the woman to jump inside, which she did.
One of the dogs ran off. But the other turned it’s attention to Gallie and his broomstick.
The dog “saw me and came straight toward me,” said Gallie.
“It was frightening, put it that way,” said Gallie. “To see this monster dog with his big head looking at me.”
Gallie said he yelled at the dog as it closed in on him.
“I said ‘don’t you dare’ or something like that,” said Gallie. What happened next was a blur.
“I know I hit it on the head or something,” said Gallie, who remembered feeling a pain in his leg.
“I felt something. I didn’t look down to be honest,” he said.
When he eventually did, he saw blood running down his left leg from a bite just above his knee. It wasn’t until he got to the hospital that he realized he had also been bitten on his left hip.
Gallie said the dog’s bite left a hole in his new shorts and stained his favourite running shoes with blood, but he got off easy compared to the trauma suffered by the woman.
“It’s nothing to what she had,” he said.
Gallie said by then, neighbours had flooded outside to help. A man with a small shovel chased after one of the dogs, Gallie said.
Gallie said he was being treated by a paramedic when a police officer returned to say they had got the dogs. One was located and killed on Duvernay Drive, the other along 10th Line Road near Charlemagne Boulevard, police said.
Gallie said the dogs looked like pit bulls, although the exact breed has not been confirmed.
As of Monday, police said the dogs’ owner still hadn’t been identified. There was no update on the condition of the woman.
When asked if he had any thoughts about what should happen with the dogs’ owner, Gallie stops himself.
“I do, but I won’t put that in writing,” he said, shaking his head slightly as he spoke.
Gallie prefers to credit police and paramedics for doing a fantastic job dealing with a situation that he described as “bedlam” than take any credit for his actions.
“They were professional, they were courteous, they were helpful. Everyone should be proud of them for what they did,” he said. “I just did what any other person would do, and that’s stop and help somebody.”
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Robin Gallie was on his way to the drugstore Saturday when he came upon a 25-year-old woman being mauled by a pair of aggressive dogs near the corner of Lamoureux Drive and Des Epinettes Avenue in Orleans.
“She was being attacked, emphasis on attacked,” said Gallie. “It wasn’t just two dogs nipping at her. She was being attacked savagely.”
Gallie immediately stopped his car and jumped out. He called 911 and then honked his horn in vain in an attempt to scare the dogs off. The woman was pleading for help and trying desperately to shield her face and neck with her arms as the dogs circled around her, Gallie said.
“I just got out of the car and started yelling at the dogs. I just yelled ‘stop it, get off.’ I was stomping my foot,” said the 66-year-old investment adviser. “They didn’t give a darn about me.”
That’s when a woman appeared at the front door of a nearby house. Gallie said he yelled at a woman to hand him a broom – or anything – he could use to hit the dogs.
The woman had just handed Gallie a red-handled broom when a person in a white SUV swerved between the woman and the dogs. The driver told the woman to jump inside, which she did.
One of the dogs ran off. But the other turned it’s attention to Gallie and his broomstick.
The dog “saw me and came straight toward me,” said Gallie.
“It was frightening, put it that way,” said Gallie. “To see this monster dog with his big head looking at me.”
Gallie said he yelled at the dog as it closed in on him.
“I said ‘don’t you dare’ or something like that,” said Gallie. What happened next was a blur.
“I know I hit it on the head or something,” said Gallie, who remembered feeling a pain in his leg.
“I felt something. I didn’t look down to be honest,” he said.
When he eventually did, he saw blood running down his left leg from a bite just above his knee. It wasn’t until he got to the hospital that he realized he had also been bitten on his left hip.
Gallie said the dog’s bite left a hole in his new shorts and stained his favourite running shoes with blood, but he got off easy compared to the trauma suffered by the woman.
“It’s nothing to what she had,” he said.
Gallie said by then, neighbours had flooded outside to help. A man with a small shovel chased after one of the dogs, Gallie said.
Gallie said he was being treated by a paramedic when a police officer returned to say they had got the dogs. One was located and killed on Duvernay Drive, the other along 10th Line Road near Charlemagne Boulevard, police said.
Gallie said the dogs looked like pit bulls, although the exact breed has not been confirmed.
As of Monday, police said the dogs’ owner still hadn’t been identified. There was no update on the condition of the woman.
When asked if he had any thoughts about what should happen with the dogs’ owner, Gallie stops himself.
“I do, but I won’t put that in writing,” he said, shaking his head slightly as he spoke.
Gallie prefers to credit police and paramedics for doing a fantastic job dealing with a situation that he described as “bedlam” than take any credit for his actions.
“They were professional, they were courteous, they were helpful. Everyone should be proud of them for what they did,” he said. “I just did what any other person would do, and that’s stop and help somebody.”
aseymour@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/andrew_seymour
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