A dog owner has issued a warning to off-road bikers after his pet was injured in Kirkcaldy.
Labrador Rosey had to have teeth extracted and was badly bruised after being hit by a trial bike in the town’s Rabbit Braes.
Owner Steven Hammond, 46, said the incident was nothing more than an unfortunate accident but could have been worse if the bike had hit a small child.
“The motorbike came flying up and took off. When it landed, it hit the dog,” he said.
“There’s no way the boy saw it from the bottom of the hill.
“He didn’t mean to hit the dog, and I think he got a bigger fright than the dog got.”
After the collision, Mr Hammond’s neighbour, who is a vet, came out to help.
Rosey ended up losing three teeth and was left with a hole in her jaw, inflammation of the shoulder blade and a badly bruised leg.
Mr Hammond appealed for anyone who knows youngsters using Rabbit Braes as a motorcycle track to warn them of the dangers.
He added: “If anyone knows these boys, could they have a word with them in case it’s a child they hit in the face the next time?”
Mr Hammond said police were called but no action was being taken against the biker.
However, police in Fife have previously highlighted the dangers of off-road motorcycles.
In 2014, a two year old child was injured in a collision in Kirkcaldy’s Templehall.
Fortunately the child suffered only minor injuries.
But a community sergeant at the time said collisions could result in serious injury or death.
And he urged youngsters not to ride motorbikes and quad bikes on pavements and footpaths in populated areas.
The issue of off-road biking has blighted certain areas of the Lang Toun for years with most of the problems centering on the town’s public parks at Dunnikier and Ravenscraig.
