Queen’s son Tom Parker Bowles battles ’15-stone’ dog as it attacks his Jack Russell – leaving the tiny pooch fighting for life
The Queen’s son, Tom Parker Bowles, struggled with the ’15-stone dog’, which injured his beloved Jack Russell and left his little pet fighting for his life.
As the food writer walked Maud along Kensington High Street, they approached what he later described as a ‘huge dog, probably a cane corso’, held tethered to the end of a metal chain.
He said the couple gave the animal ample space but the dog suddenly spotted Maud, lifted her owner off her feet and savagely attacked the two stone terriers.
In a sad account shared on Instagram, he wrote: ‘I finally managed to fight the beast off, rolling across the pavement and desperately trying to pry its jaws from its tiny body.
“It seemed like hours but probably no more than 30 seconds,” the heartbroken dog owner wrote on Instagram.
Maud was ‘very, very seriously injured’ and was taken to the emergency vet with the help of a ‘kind lady’ who ‘whisled like a sailor to hail a taxi’.
Mr Parker Bowles insisted that ‘dangerous dogs like this should always be muzzled’, but stressed: ‘I’m a great believer in bad owners, not bad dogs, though.’
The food writer was walking Maud along Kensington High Street when they approached what he later described as ‘a large dog, probably a cane bone’.
Mr Parker Bowles stressed that ‘dangerous dogs like this should always be muzzled’ but added: ‘Although I’m a great believer that it’s not the bad dogs, it’s the bad owners.’
As Maud lay bleeding on the pavement, she continued to thank the strangers who intervened: ‘I want to thank all the lovely people of all faiths and colours, who came to my aid… To the taxi drivers who carried me across town.
‘And the amazing vet @villagevetlond Chiswick who saved her life.’
He concluded with praise for the capital: ‘The kindness of strangers is so great… It’s still the greatest city in the world and I’m so proud to be a Londoner.’
As the Mail reported last year, 16 dogs are seized every day in the UK, according to data released last year.
Since November 2023, nearly 6,000 dangerous dogs have been seized by 27 police forces, an average of 114 dogs per week.
Greater Manchester recorded the highest incidence of seizures, with 19 dogs taken per week and 337 animals killed during the year.
West Midlands officers seized 17 people in the week, followed by Northumbria with nine. West Yorkshire reported eight, while Leicestershire claimed six.
