Scarred for life over dog attack

AFTER reading your article in the Gazette regarding the dog attack in Pole Hill Park, I thought I’d email to tell you that we have suffered a similar sort of thing (Pets savaged in park ‘bloodbath’ by terrier, Gazette, April 25).

My partner took our dog (a Shih Tzu cross) to Barra Hall park with our two children aged three and eight, along with our neighbour, his dog (a King Charles spaniel) and his daughter, also aged eight.

Our dogs were on leads when a man with a French mastiff entered the park with his dog not on a lead. The dog bounded up to my dog and attacked him.

He suffered severe neck injuries and had to be rushed to Putney Animal Hospital where he was kept overnight on a drip, had multiple stitches to his neck and had to have drains inserted.

They said he was very lucky to be alive, as the bite had just missed his jugular.

Worst of all, the owner took off on his toes, leaving my dog near death’s door and my children absolutely terrified.

My three-year-old son refuses now to go back to Barra Hall Park and I can’t blame him.

NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED

Airport can’t cope with more flights

WHEN we first moved to Hayes in 1969-1970, flights [at Heathrow Airport] were every three minutes.

Now, as we sit and see them coming over London, we timed them and it’s every minute and 30 seconds.

Heathrow can’t cope with it any more, and we have had many a close shave when coming in to land.

God forbid any more flights. BAA might just as well blow us all up – even with all windows shut tight we can still hear engines when the wind is in our direction.

BERYL BRADSHAW

Lynch Gate Walk

Hayes

Come forward and explain your actions

TO the dear lady in Eastcote who maliciously used her key to scratch the side of my car after a brief exchange of words outside the doctor’s surgery in Eastcote: as intended, you have successfully caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage to our car.

After getting a quote to repair the damage, I became involved in a car crash which I would not have been involved in had I not had to fix my car. Despite all of this, the hardest thing by far has been trying to explain your actions to our three-year-old daughter who wants to know why someone has been so nasty and mean towards our family.

The doctors’ surgery and council have both agreed to help the police with their enquiries.

If anyone else saw this malicious act on April 27 at approximately 11.30am in Devonshire Lodge car park, Eastcote, please contact the police by calling 101, quoting Crime reference number 0908211/12.

Alternatively, if the lady herself has any shred of moral fibre in her being, she should come forward and take responsibility for her actions.

This would by far be the best lesson my daughter could hope to learn from this sorry affair.

JANINA

Via email