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A 40-year-old man is recovering in Saskatoon hospital from life-threatening injuries after being attacked by his own dogs outside a home in the Riversdale neighbourhood.

Officers were dispatched late Friday, around 11:50 p.m., to a home in the 400 block of Avenue E South, where the attack was taking place. Members of the air support unit spotted the attack in progress and when officers arrived at the scene, they quickly located the man “still being attacked by the two, large breed dogs,” police said in a news release.

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“Both dogs then began to aggressively advance toward the officers, who were forced to discharge their service weapons and stop the threat,” police said.

Both dogs are dead, police added. The dogs “came from the same address as the injured man,” police said later in a Facebook comment.

The attack victim — identified by a friend as 40-year-old Chris Bayet — was rushed by ambulance to hospital.