Woman seriously hurt after dog attack in Aldergrove

Editor’s note: This article contains graphic details. In addition, the link in this article directs to a Facebook post with very graphic and disturbing images in the comment section. This material is not suitable for all readers.

LANGLEY (NEWS 1130) – A woman is dealing with what appear to be severe injuries after she says she was attacked by a big dog in Aldergrove.

According to Kim Tamminga, her sister Shelby went to a store in the area of 272 Street and 29 Avenue and got out of her truck when was confronted by the animal.

“A dog came right around the front of her truck, looked at her. She looked at it. And then it did nothing else — it just charged her and attacked, and got a hold of her right leg,” she explains.

Tamminga says the dog let go once, and then re-gripped. “The second time he let go, she managed to get her leg out of his mouth, curled up into a ball. And that’s when he was biting at her hip and her buttocks.

That’s when Shelby heard someone whistle, the attack stopped, and the dog was gone.

“She says she’ll never forget that whistle because it just stopped. Everything stopped.”

Tamminga says a young couple was walking by, and her sister asked them for help. “He whipped his belt off, put a tourniquet around her leg.”

Graphic photos posted in the comment section of a Facebook post show the victim suffered serious injuries to her leg. The 45-year-old has large gashes in her leg.

“He tore, basically, the flesh right out,” says Tamminga. “She’s got gaps on the bottom of her calf, as well as on the top of her calf. That’s all stapled up and we’re waiting to find out from the surgeon what the next steps are going to be.”

She says her sister also has severe bruising and bite marks on her left hip.

Police have not yet located the dog — which is described as large and light coloured — or its owner, and say a scan through surveillance footage in the area didn’t reveal much.

According to Tamminga, her sister had originally planned to take her daughter and a softball teammate’s three-year-old daughter with her.

“Typically, when you park and the kids pile out of the truck… had my sister taken those kids with her, I worry that the kids would have been attacked and it would have been a lot worse, I think. I’m concerned that this dog is out and could potentially do this again to someone else. To a child, it would be much more devastating.”

The family is hoping anyone who may have been in the area of 29 Avenue and 272 Street on Tuesday around 7 p.m. will contact police. Tamminga adds the family would also like to hear from the couple who helped her sister so they can thank them.

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