News of Sunday's incident in Kaikohe prompted a 74-year-old Kaitaia woman to reveal that she had been attacked by a dog two weeks ago, as she walked in Matthews' Ave.
The dog had rushed out from a property "like a flash," ripped a chunk of flesh that she described as the size of a tomato from her left calf then "shot off like a rocket."
The woman, who did not wish to be named, flagged down a passing police patrol and asked for a ride home, but was delivered to Kaitaia Hospital.
On Tuesday she was facing 10 more weeks of twice-weekly changes of dressing. The wound was healing, but ached "like hell."
She had reported the attack to the district council, and the dog had been destroyed the next day.
