A search is underway for the owner of two dogs that attacked a family pet near a 91原创 school, inflicting injuries that required emergency surgery. 

Murrayville resident Breanne Robson and her two children, aged four and two, had gone with Len, their King Charles cavalier/bichon frise cross to the playground at Glenwood Elementary around noon on Sunday, Nov. 10, when two off-leash dogs attacked. 

鈥淥ne big one lunged at me and my dog,鈥� Robson described. 

鈥淚t just kept biting and biting and ripping. I screamed and screamed and screamed, for what seemed like forever while doing everything in my physical power to stop the dog. My kids never got hurt, thank goodness, but were screaming and crying in fear.鈥� 

Robson described the two dogs as two pitbull crosses. 

Then, her husband, Daniel Allingham, arrived. 

鈥淢y wife was covered in blood and urine from our dog,鈥� he said. 鈥淪he was in tears and in shock while the other dog owner blamed his dog for jumping out of the truck.鈥� 

As Allingham was attending to his family, the dog owner, a 5 ft. 8 in., 200-pound Caucasian man who appeared to be in his 60s, left after Robson told him to get the attacking dog. 

鈥淗e took off because I told him to get away as he was making no attempt to leash his dog,鈥� she said. 

鈥淚 didn鈥檛 want the dog going after my kids next.鈥� 

Allingham asked some Good Samaritans, women who had come to his family鈥檚 aid, to get information from the dog owner, but the man didn鈥檛 stick around. 

He drove off in a newer black GMC pickup, heading north on 208 Street. The family didn鈥檛 get the licence plate number, but said it appeared to be a special B.C. parks plate. 

鈥淎s they [the Samaritans] went to speak to him they yelled 鈥榮top,鈥� and he rushed away,鈥� Allingham recalled. 

Len was rushed to the Willowbrook Animal Hospital for emergency surgery for multiple injuries, including torn muscles in his back. 

His recovery will be a long one,鈥� said Robson. 鈥淭he vet bill is in the thousands." 

Allingham added: 鈥淢y wife is beside herself. She鈥檚 always been of the mindset that all dogs should be leashed especially at playgrounds. Our children have been traumatized [and] are afraid to look at our dog with his wounds after a lengthy surgery.鈥� 

Len will be six on the 23rd, Allingham told the 91原创 Advance Times. 

鈥淸He鈥檚 the] happiest guy ever, wonderful with kids or dogs,鈥� Dad described. 鈥淛ust wants to smile and play with everyone, or at least he did.鈥� 

Robson hopes to locate this individual "so that he can be held accountable for his dog鈥檚 actions so that this never happens again. 

Sarah Jones, executive director of LAPS (91原创 Animal Protection Society), said animal control officers are looking for the owner of the two dogs. 

鈥淲e鈥檒l probably be increasing patrols in that area and talking to more people,鈥� Jones said. 

鈥淲e have ways of being able to trace people,鈥� Jones added. 

鈥淚t鈥檚 amazing how community can come together, and just talking to people, eventually, sometimes you鈥檒l find a name.鈥� 

In some cases, Jones said, owners of offending dogs have turned themselves in. 

There have been other incidents this year in B.C. where owners of attacking dogs have attempted to evade responsibility. 

In August of this year, an unleashed dog . The owner fled the scene. Vancouver police are reportedly still investigating.

In April of this year, in Victoria, the owner of an attacking dog avoided a $1,500 veterinary bill by providing what turned out to be an out-of-service phone number.