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Learn how dog bite victims and witnesses to serious and fatal dog maulings describe the horrific experience and how many are left to live with disfiguring injuries in the aftermath.

jennifer walker

It looked like a murder scene. It looked so bad I had to turn away at one point. I thought I was going to get sick.

andrew "moses" diodati

I was kicking one pit bull so hard that all four of its feet were in the air, but it still wouldn't let go.

charlena sylvesters

Seven months pregnant, he locked onto her stomach, and we had to get him off of her.

rhonda dugger

It looked like my mother's legs had been run over by a car. Pieces of her body were scattered around the scene.

sam campbell

She’s struggling with this, the dog attack, the loss of her arms and not being able to get around.

crosson family

The emergency care flight alone cost $18,000.

rudy bernal

He was dragging her, and all her scalp was hanging by her side. He wouldn't turn her loose. He would let her go and attack her again. I saw police shoot the dog with a stun gun. That's the only way they could cut him loose.

jean kidd (911 call)

I think I see blood everywhere, so please come in a hurry...I heard her screaming, and I just went to find a neighbor, because there's no way I'm going across.

sandra goodwin

We saw the pit bull running at us from about 150 yards away, Sandra said. It was coming at us like a bullet.

timothy jacobs

Within five minutes Page's face was gone. I heard her screaming, "Help me, help me."

brandon dillingham

The first time he looked in the mirror, it scared him, and he asked if it was his face. He says he wants his other mouth back.

maureen faibish

We never trained them [our pit bulls] to do any kinds of vicious things...This is just a devastating tragedy.

kenneth garrison

I was always one that said pits are fine and they're only mean if you train them to be that way. This thing made a liar out of me [after it attacked my baby son].

chicago tribune

Chunks of muscle were missing from his limbs, leaving bone-deep divots papered over with grafted skin. The left side of his face bore two thick, half-moon scars where his cheek had been ripped open like a tent flap.

dave monroe

These dogs (pit bulls) were bred to fight. It's in their blood -- and we're making pets out of them.

amaya hess website

When the claw end of a hammer was used to pop open his locked jaw, half of Amaya's scalp was missing, her right eye was not in its socket and her right ear was torn from the side of her head.

christina voight

The dog ate half of her arm off, her back and leg, its like a gaping hole, nothing there.

stephanie nilsen

It was close to 96 stitches because she kept stitching and stitching and stitching and I just lost count. He ripped up all the tissue from my bone, so they couldn't be able to stitch all of it up.

tage wright

Maybe [the pit bulls] know a mad carpenter with a framing hammer when they see one. They have teeth. I have a hammer.

david blair

It was an instantaneous attack. No noise, no warning.

joanna foster

It was like "shoosh," like a crocodile coming out of the water. He (the pit bull) wasn't there and then, all of a sudden, he was there. Like a wild animal.

scott sands

Margaret, if you hear me, call the cops. The [pit bull] is killing me!

joyce lovette

I haven't really been an advocate of the pit bull ordinance until now...Nothing was gonna stop those dogs. Nothing.

sue gorman

I thought, 'OK, my arm's still there... there's the muscle... and there's the bone... those are intact... people survive this... let's just pretend we're watching it on TV so we don't freak out.

son (911 call)

We can't get to my mom and my brother just went out there and they [the pit bulls] attacked him too. They don't need to get out of the ambulance or the dogs will try to get them, too.

raylene smith

I can't remember the pain, I can only remember the terror. I remember thinking, they're killing me and I can't stop them...

brooklynn police

Rocky [the pit bull] went wild in the midst of six playing and sleeping children, mauling Kamar.

Donna Castelli

I'd kiss them on the forehead. They were lovely dogs [until they killed a 12-year old boy].

len epperson

I would kick him in the nose with the bottom of my foot and it would be just enough to push him back, but then he immediately kept coming on. He wasn't backing off, he wasn't giving up.

sue thompson

I was hitting him in the head with a hammer, and Bob was too.

michael jones

This dog [pit bull] was trying to kill my daddy. That's all I could think about. I wasn’t going to let no dog take out my daddy.

flint selby

It disturbed me pretty good to see a dog run a horse to death.