A 13-year-old girl attacked by a neighbour's dog is now traumatised by the sound of her own pet dog barking, her mother says.
The Te Puke girl was bitten on the top of her arm on Tuesday by a pitbull, but her mother said the dog's owner acted quickly to halt the attack.
"The owner was really good,'' the woman said.
She drove her injured daughter to hospital herself as emergency services were working to help a 15-year-old kiwifruit worker critically injured in a tractor accident at nearby Maketu.
The girl was discharged from Tauranga Hospital on Tuesday night and was yesterday resting at home, her mother said.