Man and son help save 92-year-old woman by beating dog off with a six-pack of beer

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A 92-year-old woman has been taken off the critical list after being attacked by her daughter's pit bull in Sydney's south.



A spokeswoman for St George Hospital said the woman is now in a serious but stable condition after suffering head, neck, chin and ear injuries when she was attacked by the American pit bull terrier in the driveway of a Sans Souci home on Good Friday.

After hearing screams, her 70-year-old daughter ran outside where she found her dog on top of her mother.

With help from a man and his son who were passing by, she managed to pull the dog off and lock it inside the house, police said.

Her mother was rushed to St George Hospital for surgery to her head, neck, chin and ear.

A hospital spokeswoman said on Sunday the woman was in a critical but stable condition.

The two men who helped the woman said they have never seen “so much blood”.

“We thought the screaming was a fight or something so we did a light jog around the corner and there was a dog basically chewing a lady's face off,” Justin Innes told Fairfax.

“I gave my son the six-pack [of beer] I was carrying and told him to stay back, but the dog was going crazy. I was hitting it but I had nothing, so I told my son to give me a beer and I hit it with that.

“Then [my son] came and hit it with the rest of the six-pack.”

Innes said the dog turned on his son, Jacob, before they were able to wrestle it back inside the house.

The woman's daughter was also taken to hospital for cuts and puncture wounds to her hands.

She has agreed to have the dog put down, a police spokeswoman said.