Queen Camilla’s son has told how he had to come to his tiny Jack Russell’s rescue after she was attacked by another dog in the street and left ‘shivering and bleeding’
Tom Parker Bowles has told how he had to fight off a hulking 10-stone mastiff that savaged his tiny Jack Russell, Maud in a terrifying attack.
Tom, the son of Queen Camilla, was out with his less-than-one-stone pooch in a London street when he saw two mastiffs being walked by their owners in the opposite direction. Although the dogs were on leashes, he sensed the trepidation in Maud and moved to the other side of pavement, believing he was out of their reach.
However, he described he the mastiffs were “straining” at their leads – before “all hell broke loose” as one of the musclebound mastiffs launched at frightened Maud, yanking his owner off his feet with brute power.
“That moment will never leave me,” he wrote in the Daily Mail. “Within moments, the mastiff had his jaws locked deep into my tiny, less-than-one-stone terrier, who was shrieking with terror. Then came the most heartrending cry of pain.
“At this point, my memory goes rather hazy. All that mattered was getting this brute off my dog, and pure instinct took over.
“Trust me, I’m no hero and usually run a mile from any sort of altercation, be it human or canine. But I knew Maud would be finished if the attacker could lift its head to shake her like a rag, or crush her like a furry Twiglet.”
Tom described how, in desperation, he launched himself at the mutt, trying to prise its jaws from Maud’s belly. Passers-by watched aghast, before one helped out by hitting the dog with his walking stick.
“I think, in the end, I must have kicked the wretched beast in the balls and it loosened its grip for one moment,” he added.
“Maud was free and in my arms. She was also a mess of blood and flesh and fur, a great gaping wound slashed across her right-hand side, with deep, sinister puncture marks where the incisors had penetrated her skin.”
Thinking only of Maud’s survival, Tom told how he didn’t have time to get details of the dog walker or witness statements, instead rushing to the vet with his dog, who was “shivering and bleeding in my arms”.
Maud had to visit three different vets’ practices to have the surgery she needed, but is thankfully now on the mend. However, it is a salutary tale to any dog owner, and Tom called for dangerous dogs to be muzzled when out in public.
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