A toddler has had his face ripped open after one of his family's eight-stone Japanese Akita dogs turned on him in their home.
Little Lewis Oliver, two, was undergoing plastic surgery yesterday and may be scarred for life after the dog, Kona, attacked him as he played with her.
He was rushed hospital and his family said he was 'doing well' yesterday.
His horrified parents, Reme Keightley, 30, and Dean Oliver, a builder, who also have a 13-year-old daughter, Chelsee, voluntarily handed Kona to police and the dog was destroyed immediately.
They plan to give up their second Akita, called Patchie, up for re-homing.
