A police officer’s 4-year-old son had his foot amputated after the father’s police dog attacked.
The mauling happened Sunday afternoon in Hesperia, California, while Michael Mastaler, a Rialto Police Department officer, was upstairs and his son went outdoors
Hunter, Mastaler’s son, had been playing video games, but went outside to look for his mother, unaware that she had gone shopping, the San Bernardino Sun reports.
Mastaler’s police dog, Jango, was outside but not in its kennel, and attacked the little boy.
Neighbors heard Hunter scream and called 911. Other neighbors broke through the backyard fence to help. Witnesses told authorities they saw Jango, a German Shepherd, with its mouth wrapped around Hunter’s foot, ABC7.com reports.
“My sister told me to run over there and see what it was, and I ran and I saw this little kid he was getting chewed up, his leg, by a dog,” a neighbor identified as Anthony, told CBS Los Angeles.
“I kicked the dog as hard as I could. It still didn’t release him, so I grabbed him by the mouth,” another neighbor told the station.
The reasons for the attack are unclear. Neighbors managed to pry open Jango’s jaws. When Michael Mastaler heard the commotion, he ran to the backyard and got the dog off his son.
Rialto Police Capt. Randy DeAnda, told the Victorville Daily Press that K-9 officers like Jango live with their handlers. Although the dogs do bond with the families, it’s “only under direct supervision of the handler.”
Paramedics who arrived on the scene rushed Hunter to a local hospital where his foot and ankle were amputated, ABC7.com reports.
Jango is on a 10-day quarantine at a kennel facility, according to the Monterey Herald.
Friends of the Mastalers’ have started a GoFundMe page in Hunter’s name to help pay for a prosthetic leg and therapy.
Authorities told ABC7.com that Jango will probably not a be a police dog anymore and could be euthanized.
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