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“I got in my truck to go and see if I could find the dog,” Hussey said, explaining he was “concerned” for the family’s pet.

As he drove around the corner, Hussey said he spotted the dog heading back home, so he continued on to look for the intruder.

Moments later he spotted a man, his face bloodied, hiding between houses on nearby Oakridge Dr.

Hussey called 911 but the man was gone by the time officers arrived in the area.

He returned to the victim’s house and picked up the distraught boy to comfort him while his dad was on the phone with a 911 operator.

“I heard (the child’s father) yell in the phone, ‘I’ve been stabbed,’ and then I looked at his leg and his leg was all red,” Hussey said. “That’s when I realized something bad happened.”

He said the victim told him the intruder’s face was probably bloodied “because he hit him with a hockey stick.”

Police searched the area but Sidhu said the intruder could not immediately be found.

“The homeowner suffered a deep stab wound to his hamstring,” she said, explaining the man was taken to hospital by ambulance.

The injury is not believed to be life-threatening.

cdoucette@postmedia.com