Heroic pups save dog walker from attempted rape after masked brute tried to chase her into tunnel

A dog walker in Australia has spoken out after a man allegedly tried to get her into a tunnel to sexually assault her and also grabbed her friend by the neck.

An unidentified man on Tuesday leapt out of a bush in Kooyong, in southeast Melbourne, as the two women were walking their eight dogs and allegedly grabbed one of them.

“He lunged for my friend and grabbed a hold of her neck and upper shoulders,” the woman told 9News.

“Then he started walking over to me and talking and threatening me to get me into the tunnel, and he wanted to have sex with me.”

Police are hunting for the man whose alleged attempts to sexually assault two women were thwarted by a loyal paw patrol.

The heroic dogs ran after the man as he made his escape, with the footage shared online.

“I was thinking of all the different scenarios that could happen, but I was more trying to jump into action rather than focus on how scared I was,” the woman said.

“I’m just going to have to be a little bit more cautious, I mean, I always have been anyway as a female.

“You always have to be alert. I’m not going to let it stop me from coming to the park that I enjoy so much, and the dogs enjoy.”

Victoria Police have released an image with the man’s likeness, in the hope the public can help track him down.

The suspect is described as “of African appearance wearing black tracksuit pants, white socks, slides, a black and gray hooded top and a black face covering.”

He was also carrying a large, bright blue backpack, as captured in the footage.

Police said the incident had sparked a criminal investigation after an “unknown male jumped out of a bush and put his arms around” one of the women before she “managed to push him away.”

“The victims’ dogs then chased the male into a nearby tunnel under the Monash Freeway.”

Footage of the incident filmed by one of the women shows a man wearing a gray hoodie and a blue backpack being chased by at least six dogs of various breeds, sizes and levels of aggression.

At one point, a small blue healer jumps up and latches onto the man’s pants, tearing a piece of fabric away.