Girl, 8, loses right hand in dog attack

By Georgina Mitchell
Updated August 31 2015 - 6:08am, first published 6:04am
The Park Chase, in Valentine Gardens Estate, where an eight-year-old girl lost a hand after she put her arm under a fence to pat one of the three Alaskan Malamutes who live there.  Photo: Marina Neil
The Park Chase, in Valentine Gardens Estate, where an eight-year-old girl lost a hand after she put her arm under a fence to pat one of the three Alaskan Malamutes who live there. Photo: Marina Neil
The rear fence of a home at The Park Chase, in Valentine Gardens Estate, where an eight-year-old girl lost a hand. Photo: Marina Neil
The rear fence of a home at The Park Chase, in Valentine Gardens Estate, where an eight-year-old girl lost a hand. Photo: Marina Neil

An eight-year-old girl has lost a hand and remains in hospital after she was attacked by a dog in the Hunter region of NSW.