Do YOU know a woman with a rottie named Zoe and pug named Guiness?

Then get in touch with police in Innisfil ASAP.  You know what I REALLY hate?  Irresponsible pet owners who give all dog owners a BAD name

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Ontario girl, 4, attacked by dogs on beach

Painful rabies treatments could be next

By QMI Agency
A 4-year-old Innisfil, Ont. girl is facing painful rabies treatment — 25 needles in the stomach — after she was attacked by two dogs on a beach.

Ekaterina Smrek was with her two sisters, her friend and her mother at Innisfil Beach Park on Aug. 18 when two dogs, a black rottweiler-type and a pug, attacked her. Olga Smrek said she had seen a woman with the two dogs at the beach just before her daughter was attacked. The woman put lifejackets on the two dogs and then played with them in the water in the same area where children were swimming.

The woman with the dogs was later seen talking on her cellphone away from the dogs and that's when Olga said she saw the larger dog jump on her daughter. After Ekaterina was knocked down, the smaller dog attacked and the little girl was bitten on her side.

"I just saw my daughter lying on the grass, and two dogs standing over her. I just ran and hugged her ... I was crying. There is blood on her bathing suit," she said, adding the woman who was with the dogs didn't immediately do anything. "When it happened she continued talking on the phone."

Olga said at first the woman attempted to discount the incident — but when she saw the blood, apologized, gathered up the dogs, and left the scene without leaving any contact information.

Ekaterina was taken to a clinic, where she received a tetanus shot, and antibiotics. That's when Olga learned that, if the dog owner couldn't be found to present information on the medical history of the pug, the little girl would need to begin rabies treatment.

Olga and her husband began a search for the owner of the rottweiler named Zoe and the pug named Guinness. They have plastered the park with posters asking for information, contacted local veterinary offices, Innisfil animal control, town by-law and police, but have so far been unsuccessful in discovering any information.

Olga said she isn't interested in making trouble for the owner. All she wants is information, so that her little girl won't have to go through lengthy, and painful treatment for the bite.