NORTH HIGHLANDS — 7/24/23 – A 73-year-old mail carrier is in recovery Monday after he was attacked by a dog in North Highlands while on the job last week.

The man typically delivered mail to the dog’s owner from the street, the owner told CBS13 on Monday, but would not share his name and did not want to be identified. Through a security gate on his front door, the owner told CBS13 that the mail carrier would call from the street when he arrived, to avoid contact with the Pitbull named Blue.

On Friday, he explained, the mail carrier came up to the front door, and that’s when Blue escaped the house and pulled the mail carrier to the ground.

In video shared with CBS13 by Keith Williams Sr. and Jr., the father and son who live next door to the attack, the dog’s owner attempts to intervene in the attack, but falls over onto the mail carrier in the process. The dog continues to attack the carrier’s face and hands while neighbors begin distractions. Read more at CBS.