A young boy cried ‘am I dying?’ to his mother after their American Staffordshire terrier viciously attacked him and ripped skin from his scalp.
Vick Zidko was walking down the stairs in his family home in Doncaster when their dog, which was bought on Facebook just two weeks prior, clamped its jaws on his head.
The six-year-old pleaded with the dog, called Diesel, to stop as it brutally bit and scratched and him on his head and back, The Mirror reported.
The boy’s family was eventually able to prise the dog’s mouth open after his father Vitalijus put his arm in the dog’s jaw to protect his son – after which, young Vick cried ‘Mummy, am I dying?’.
After five days in hospital Vick had the torn-off piece of scalp reattached – it is now under a large patch on his head.
A six-year-old boy was scalped by an American Staffordshire terrier called Diesel (pictured) just two weeks after it was purchase on Facebook
The dog (pictured) was destroyed by police after it tore skin off the head of Vick Zidko
Forklift truck driver Vitalijus told The Mirror the family had thought ‘long and hard’ about getting a dog and described Diesel as ‘really soft’ and ‘jumping around’.
Last Thursday at 7pm, the dog was chewing a bone just before the attack began leading Vick’s sister Gabriel, 18, to think ‘it was as if he saw Vick as a chew toy’.
After the attack a piece of Vick’s scalp ended up on the floor at the home and was almost stepped on by a police officer.
Mother Eugenija, 41, told The Mirror: ‘I grabbed Vick and ran to the bedroom, locking the door.
‘I was trying to calm him down. I put a towel on his head to stop the bleeding. He saw all the blood and said, “Mummy, am I dying?”.
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‘Then he asked is [his twin brother] Nick and Gabriel OK.’
She added her son is now having bad dreams where he relives the moment the dog attacked him.
She added: ‘He said, “Promise me we’ll have no more dogs in our house”.’
Officers are investigating the incident and the dog was destroyed by police.
It comes as a woman who was mauled to death by the eight animals in January as she was walking in a Surrey park is believed to have been killed by her own American Bully XL.
Natasha Johnston died from multiple bites to the neck
Police at the scene in Gravelly Hill in Caterham, Surrey, where dogs fatally attacked Ms Johnston
Witnesses to the horrific attack said the dogs turned into a pack of ‘wolves’ when they attacked Natasha Johnston, 28, at the Gravelly Hill beauty spot in Caterham on January 12.
She died from multiple bites to the neck, including one that perforated her jugular vein, an inquest heard. Eight dogs were seized at the scene of the frenzied attack.
Police confirmed Ms Johnston’s dog was the only animal to have been destroyed, which they believe to be an American Bully XL.
They are continuing to hold five other dogs following a vet’s forensic report, but two seized dachshunds were returned to their owner last month.
