A pit bull attack has left a 29-year-old Ahuntsic-Cartierville resident with injuries that will prevent her from working for at least a month.

Surveillance video shows Nancy Martel walking into her building when seemingly for no reason, the dog, named Chucky, starts biting her.

He locked onto her for 20 seconds and even drags her. No amount of kicking, or pulling the leash on the owner’s part stops the attack. When Chucky finally let go, Martel was bleeding profusely and in shock.

Nine days later, Martel is still in pain – her knee aches, she has stitches on her legs and serious cuts on her fingers. But in spite of that, she says she feels somewhat lucky.

“The dog bit me just beside the big vein of the thigh so it could have been really worse,” she said.

Following the attack, the landlord called police and the city. Chucky's owner was given a $500 fine and ordered to keep the dog muzzled for the next 90 days, but the dog still lives in the building.

“I'm getting calls all day, the tenants are scared for them and their children,” said building manager Jean-Francois Dufour.

Dufour wants Chucky out of the building, but the owner refuses to leave so the landlord went to the Regie to have him evicted. But the Regie doesn't think it's an urgent matter, so they gave him a hearing in three years.

The borough says it's following the law and within two to three weeks will send a veterinarian to evaluate Chucky's behaviour.

“If we deem he's dangerous, we'll insist Chucky be euthanized,” said borough spokespersonJocelyn Jobidon.

The SPCA is quick to say don't blame the pitbull breed.

“It is very rarely the dog's fault and is often what shaped the dog into becoming a certain way,” said SPCA spokesperson Anita Kapuscinska.

Behaviour experts at the SPCA watched the video of the attack, and Kapuscinska says the dog’s behavior is “alarming.”

“It's not normal behaviour for a dog to randomly attack somebody,” she said.

As Chucky awaits his fate, Martel is recovering. She says she's not mad at her neighbour, but hopes she'll never have to deal with the dog again.