Terrier Mauls Man, His Doberman : Attack: The victim, who was taking a walk in Anaheim with his 8-year-old dog, used a pocketknife to fend off the pit bull-like American Stafford.

An Anaheim man used a pocketknife to fend off an attack by a pit bull-like terrier who mauled him and his Doberman pinscher Tuesday as they were coming home from a walk, neighbors said.

Greg Gardner, 28, was taken by a neighbor to UCI Medical Center in Orange after the attack by a neighbor’s 4-year-old American Stafford terrier. He was treated for a dog bite to the right hand and later released, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The incident occurred at The Orange Tree mobile home park in the 1400 block of South Douglass Road about 4:50 p.m.

Gardner’s mother, Carol Gardner, said her son and his 8-year-old dog, Priss, had just returned home from a walk when she heard her son scream: “Mom, Mom, help me!”

“He wouldn’t let me see his hand, he just said, ‘Take the dog (Priss) to the vet, she’s more important. And don’t let them put her to sleep,’ ” Carol Gardner said.

Irene Ziemer, a neighbor of the Gardners, said she ran out of her mobile home after hearing the commotion. She said Greg Gardner “was mauled real bad.”

Ziemer volunteered to drive Greg Gardner to the hospital because he had insisted that his mother take his dog to an animal hospital.

Greg Gardner told Ziemer that the terrier was on its owner’s porch when it charged him. Ziemer said Gardner “got a knife and he stabbed the dog” to make him let go. The terrier then bit Gardner’s Doberman on its right front paw before running off, she said.

Ziemer said she wrapped Gardner’s bleeding hand in a towel and escorted him to her car.

“All I could worry about was getting him to a doctor,” Ziemer said at the hospital. “Blood was just squirting out. The dog mauled his arm and right hand. He said he could see the bone sticking out.”

Carol Gardner said she took Priss to a veterinarian’s office, where the dog was being held overnight for observation.

The dog was expected to be fine, she said.

Later, she went to the hospital to see her son.

“He said he was in pain,” Carol Gardner said. “They were both in bad shape, the dog and Greg.”

The terrier, which belongs to Daryle McGunigale, was taken to the dog pound, the owner said.

McGunigale said his dog, Bandit, had never been a problem. “We had no trouble with it whatsoever,” he said. “We have a 2-year-old and a 6-month-old and they ride it.”

Connie Currier, a resident of the mobile home park, said McGunigale “took good care of that dog. It wasn’t trained to be a fighter or anything like that. It was a pet.”

Times staff writer Lanie Jones contributed to this report.