BAY CITY, MI -- A boy is recuperating after being mauled by a "pit-bull type" dog in Bay City's Banks District, while the dog in question is slated to be euthanized.

The afternoon of Tuesday, Oct. 9, 10-year-old Nolan Cunningham was riding his scooter at Infinity Skate Park within DeFoe Park. Shortly after 5 p.m., he left and headed for home, heading west on the sidewalk along Marquette Avenue, according to his mother, Alyssa Cunningham.

"He was just cruising on his scooter when he saw this dog come charging at him," his mom said.

Nolan tossed his scooter at the dog and tried to run, but the dog jumped on him and knocked him to the ground. Nolan put his left arm up and was bitten by the dog, his mom said.

About that time, the dog's owner came out of her residence and pulled the dog off of the boy, Cunningham said. The owner secured the dog and then used Nolan's shirt to tie a tourniquet around his arm until emergency responders arrived, she said.

Police and Bay County Animal Control personnel responded to the scene. Nolan was taken to a Saginaw hospital.

Nolan Cunningham, 10, showing the bruise he sustained on his left side when a pit bull-type dog knocked him down and mauled him on Oct. 9, 2018.

"The dog nicked his bone and they had to do surgery," Cunningham said of her son's wound to his left arm.

He received numerous stitches and a cast, which is not due to come off until Friday, Oct. 26. He also suffered a large contusion on his left side, bearing an imprint of one of the dog's paws.

The dog was not in a fenced-in yard, nor was he tethered to anything keeping it on its owner's property, Cunningham alleged.

Per departmental policy, Animal Control personnel ordered the dog quarantined for 10 days. The morning after the incident, the dog's owner surrendered it to Animal Control and relinquished ownership rights. The dog is to be euthanized once the quarantine is up, staff there said.

Staff added this is the first time they're aware of the dog in question having bitten a passerby. They are not seeking charges against the owner, they said. They identified the breed as pit bull-type dog.

Animal Control Director Michael F. Halstead declined to let MLive photograph the dog, saying doing so might violate the privacy of its former owner.

Cunningham said her son is doing better, though she's fearful he will be traumatized by the incident and be apprehensive around dogs. She agrees with the decision to have the dog euthanized and said she plans to file a lawsuit against the dog's owner to at least pay for her son's medical bills.

To that end, she has contacted attorneys with the Sam Bernstein Law Firm, who have agreed to take her case, she said.