They would return tomorrow to try to ascertain what had happened.
Residents on Korimako Ave said they saw an ambulance and police cars at the end of the quiet dead-end street.
One man said the girl had been at a next door neighbour's house when she was bitten.
On Monday night a boy suffered serious injuries when he was bitten by a Staffordshire bull terrier at his home in the south Auckland suburb of Takanini.
He was today in a stable condition in Kid First Children's Hospital.
In Gisborne, a woman suffered serious facial injuries in what was described as a "horrific'' dog attack on Monday afternoon.
The 54-year-old woman was playing with two dogs at a family function in Kaiti when they attacked her.
She was in a stable condition yesterday at Gisborne Hospital with serious facial injuries and bites to her body.
