Well, back to square one.
Do you remember the savage mauling of a beautiful little girl in an Auckland park in 2003?
She was my only grandchild. Her name is Carolina Anderson.
The dog which attacked her left the child with horrific injuries to her face, eye and nose. She was seven years old.
I'm looking at a photograph of her distorted, bloodied face pictured in a magazine ‘North and South' dated February 2010 page 36.
I would like to report this wonderful, spirited and charming child, after 19 surgeries to date and plastic surgery at Middlemore Hospital, is now a confident, intelligent and educated young woman nearing her 21st birthday.
As a family we are grateful to the health services and
especially the dedicated
work of the surgeons at Middlemore Hospital.
I would ask you, fellow New Zealanders, to image the trauma, the agonies, the worry over such incidents should it occur to one of your own family, or indeed any child in our beautiful and caring country.
This terror can, and indeed has, affected so many of our dear little innocents, for recently four more of these terrific dog attacks were reported!
Please make this stop! No more wringing of hands and weeping and wailing from our leaders, without prompt and positive steps to get rid of our breeds responsible for the dog attacks.
Please approach or
write to influenced political representatives local and government expressing your desire for urgent severe restrictions, eradication
and neutering of the
dangerous breeds.
Lastly, my family and I are dog lovers and have or have had loved pets of our own.
My son and daughter-in-law purchased a small Japanese Temple dog about the size of a Bichon Frise for my granddaughter Carolina after the mauling so that she might find some solace and not live in fear of all dogs. This small dog, Guilietta, is dearly loved by her.
Carolina is now nearly 21
and in her last year of study for her first architectural degree.
She is a personable and attractive young woman.
Some scars remain but she has retained her eyesight.
My son John made a submission to Parliament at the time and was recently interviewed by National Radio.
Unless you, the public, also show your concern, this dreadful danger and attacks by dangerous breeds will continue.
Will you help please? Together we can do it.
L Anderson, Katikati.