Police last night impounded a pack of dogs which were involved in an attack on a Brechin pensioner.
As the victim revealed his fear when the group set upon him in the Wednesday afternoon incident, the OAP owner of the crossbreeds last night admitted it was her dogs that had gone for the 78-year-old but said it was “his own fault” after claiming he kicked out at the over-excited pups.
Fiona Borders, who is 76, made the claim at the door of her boarded-up home in the town’s Montrose Street just seconds after police had seized her pets in the wake of the incident behind garages at Viewbank Place, next to Wards Park, around 2pm on Wednesday.
The victim, who asked to remain anonymous, had described the dogs as “completely out of control”.
He said: “I was taking my cocker spaniel for a walk on its lead when these four dogs came through a fence out of nowhere.
“There didn’t seem to be anyone with them and they started sniffing around my dog. Then they began to get aggressive,” he said.
“I picked my dog up and they started jumping up to get at my dog. I was knocked to the ground.”
At 6.15pm two police vehicles, one a dog section van, arrived at Ms Borders’ door where three officers spoke to her.
After a short discussion with her, the animals were taken away in a van.
She told The Courier she was due to give a statement to police this weekend.
But she admitted it had been her animals which attacked the man on Wednesday. She said they were not Staffordshire bull terriers, but whippet crossbreeds.
Of Wednesday’s incident, she said: “The pups just ran up to him, they’re friendly and they wanted to be friendly with him.
“But he started kicking and shouting at them…I’m sorry that he cut his hand, but they just wanted to be friendly.”
Police are appealing for witnesses to Wednesday’s incident to contact them.
For more on this story, see Saturday’s Courier.
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