Luke lost his left ear, has damaged lips, had both cheeks ripped open and sustained lacerations to his back and neck.
He was mauled by the Jack Russell at his Northmead home on Wednesday, last week.
The boy’s father, Gary Flemming, said he was at the back of his yard when the domestic worker ran up to him, shouting “Something is wrong with Luke”.
He ran outside and saw two of the dogs on his son.
”He was face down on the floor and the two dogs were on him,” said Flemming.
”I grabbed him and ran away with him.
”Initially, when I looked, I saw no damage because he was lying face down.
”It looked like he was trying protect himself.”
The father said he thought his son was dead, as the child was barely responsive when he got to his side.
Flemming took Luke to the Tambo Memorial Hospital immediately after the attack, from where he was later transferred to the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital.
The father has has no idea for how long the dogs had been attacking his son, or the reason for it.
The domestic worker apparently saw how a third Jack Russell on the property, who is pregnant, was trying to protect Luke from the attack.
The boy underwent an eight-hour reconstructive surgery on the day of the attack.
He is breathing on his own but is being fed through a tube.
Doctors will now wait for the swelling to go down before they attempt skin grafts on Luke.
In a year’s time, they will take cartilage from his rib to reconstruct his ear.
The two dogs, and a sausage dog, were taken to the SPCA after the attack.
