A woman is in a critical condition in hospital after she was savagely mauled by three dogs in a Melbourne backyard this morning.
Police were called to a home on Ross Street in Dandenong just before 10am, where they found a woman being attacked by the dogs in the backyard.
9News understands the dogs involved were two American bulldogs and a pit bull.
Officers were forced to use their guns to fatally shoot the dogs after efforts to remove the animals from the woman with capsicum spray failed.
The woman has been rushed to Dandenong Hospital in a critical condition.
An investigation into the exact circumstances of the attack is continuing, police said.