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Phillip Lane and his wife Linda were walking their two-year-old Jack Russell-beagle mix Buddy on a quiet Collendina dog beach in Australia this week, when a large, brown ridgeback ran up and snatched their little dog in its jaws.
"It grabbed our dog, threw him to the ground and had him by the neck," Phillip Lane said. "I thought, 'if he starts shaking him, he'll kill him'."
Lane tackled the attacking dog and tried to forcibly unclamp its jaws with his hands.
"I managed to open its jaws once and he let Buddy go, but then he grabbed him again. I thought Buddy was gonna be dead, that's it, he's gone ... he was crying and squealing, it was just horrible."
Fearing for his dog’s life and with one hand in the ridgeback's mouth and another around its neck, Lane resorted to desperate of measures.
"I thought, 'if you're not gonna let go, I'm gonna bite your ear off' ... I ended up biting him on the ear as hard as I could," he said.
The bite stunned the ridgeback and it released Buddy. The ridgeback’s owner then came over and took away the attacking dog.
The Lanes grabbed their bloodied pet, and took him to the safety of the water, before rushing him to the vet.
Veterinarians told the Lanes that the thick skin around Buddy's neck helped him survive the attack.
Buddy is currently recovering at home. His owner, however, received multiple cuts to his hands from the Ridgeback's attack, with a doctor administering butterfly stitches, a tetanus shot and antibiotics.
He voiced his anger at the ridgeback owner's apparent indifference to the attack and inability to control his pet.
"The bloke had been lying down on the sand, and only arrived when he heard my wife screaming. He said 'sorry about that', and mentioned his dog had attacked other dogs."
Lane added, "Dogs are supposed to be muzzled if they're dangerous, and if they've attacked other dogs, they shouldn't be allowed on the beach."
Sources: Geelong Advertiser, Daily Telegraph
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