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‘Fear in her face’: Hero couple who saved K’gari dingo attack victim tell their story

A Queensland couple have told how they raced to the rescue of a young woman being attacked by a pack of dingoes on K’gari and described her horrific injuries.

Hero couple tell of dingo attack terror (9 News)

A Queensland couple have told how they raced to the rescue of a young woman suffering horrific injuries during an attack by a pack of dingoes on K’gari.

It comes as the leader of the pack has been euthanised.

Shane and Sarah Moffat were driving on Orchid Beach on Monday when they saw a pack of dingoes attacking a female jogger, who ran into the surf to try to escape.

“We saw two dingoes hanging off the side of her, she was walking towards me with a hand up yelling out, ‘Help, help’,” Mr Moffat told 9 News.

Shane Moffat risked his life as he forced himself between Sarah Peet and the collared dingo before punching the animal known by K’gari Rangers as “CC Green”. Picture: 9 News
Shane Moffat risked his life as he forced himself between Sarah Peet and the collared dingo before punching the animal known by K’gari Rangers as “CC Green”. Picture: 9 News

Sarah Peet, 23, of Brisbane, suffered dozens of significant bites before being rescued by the two bystanders who punched the animals to get them away from her.

“I could see fear in her face that she wasn’t in a good way, there was a big piece missing out of her arm there and there was puncture wounds all up the side of her legs,” Mr Moffat said.

He risked his own life as he forced himself between Ms Peet and the collared dingo before punching the animal, known by K’gari rangers as “CC Green”.

“He was coming for me, and then I’ve just gone like that, and that was his teeth, the side of his face,” he said.

“He was coming for me, and then I’ve just gone like that, and that was his teeth, the side of his face,” said Mr Moffat. Picture: 9 News
“He was coming for me, and then I’ve just gone like that, and that was his teeth, the side of his face,” said Mr Moffat. Picture: 9 News

“When I hit him, he kind of shook twice on his head, but then he still lunged at me with a bit of aggression.”

Ms Moffat said she caught some of the horrific attack on video as she screamed in terror for her husband to get out of the water.

She then dropped her phone to pull the injured woman from the shallows, loading her into the back of their utility as the dogs continued to attack.

Sarah Moffatt said that she caught some of the horrific attack on video as she screamed in terror for her husband to get out of the water. Photo: 9 News
Sarah Moffatt said that she caught some of the horrific attack on video as she screamed in terror for her husband to get out of the water. Photo: 9 News

Mr Moffat said the dingo tried to grab Ms Peet off the back of the tailgate before they escaped.

Paramedics later assessed Ms Peet on the ute before airlifting her to hospital.

The Moffats, who have two children, said the ordeal would not stop them returning to K’gari, but had forever made them more aware of dingo safety.

The thing that we’ve thought about the most is like what she went through before we got there,” said Ms Moffat.

“I think if we were any later, yeah, that it might have been a different story,” Mr Moffat said.

Victim Sarah Peet
Victim Sarah Peet

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