Dog bite victim voices ::

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.

tommy ingram

I really can't put it into words ... To sit there and look at your child, you look at the arms and it looked like shredded meat.

fernando lozano

[The pit bull] wasn't growling or barking or anything like that ... it just wouldn't stop biting ... It literally looked like he was eating him.

jamie southard

There was blood everywhere. There was blood in the wheel wells, there was even blood on the exhaust pipes. It was like someone had just taken buckets...

daniela sexton

The dog was just hanging on my face ... I'll never forget that.

tanya barnes

Like a rattlesnake, I didn't even see the dog move. I felt the power. It had it's lower jaw in my mouth and it's upper jaw here, and it just yanked.

bowden family

Mr. Bowden was maimed beyond recognition, with no facial features remaining and other horrific disfigurement.

andy castaneda

The big pit was chewing the man's arm off. It was horrible. I've never seen anything like that."

julie havern

She suffered a fractured skull and required more than 300 stitches to close her wounds. She also lost many teeth and had numerous bones in her face shattered.

kortnie murphy

The first thing I think of is a lion. I don't know of too many animals that can do that to you.

police news release

His right hand had been bitten off by a pit bull dog in the house.

marjorie boyd

This is not just a bite. This is a mauling. This is an unprovoked mauling, and there's a big difference.

april sumrall

He don't have his ears, he don't have his scalp or nothing.

joyce haynes

It was like getting a piece of meat (torn off), like that movie 'Jaws.'

brenda hill

'Cause they was eating me, and they were eating me while I was saying that. I couldn't protect myself. I just took the pain -- and the pain was bad.

roger lindee

I felt like I was fighting a person. I was choking him, and we were on the ground rolling. I was asking God to help me because I knew I was dying.

doug perry

I always thought that maybe [pit bulls] were getting kind of a bad rep at one point, but this kind of changed my mind...I don't think pit bulls should be allowed for anyone to have. They are not a pet.

pat sorensen

I remember taking my hands and pushing my nose back up and holding my cheek -- what was left of it -- and falling to the ground.

doug frei

He saw Andersen collapse, with heavy bleeding coming from her right arm. He used his necktie and gun magazine to form a tourniquet to stop the bleeding...

donna williams

We are very, very lucky that the dog's bottom jaw did not get under Delaney's bottom jaw, because when I pulled her out of his mouth, I would have pulled her whole bottom jaw out, which the nurse told me would have been a horrific scene.

robert brady

When I got there, [my son's feet] looked like hamburger meat you would see at Bi-Lo.

jason howell

[The pit bulls] ripped it to shreds. What could the child possibly have done to instigate that? I have a daughter who is 18 months old. And the look on the father's face is something I'll never forget, ever.

anthony dippolito

I shot [the pit bull] right in the chest with a .45, and it didn't even fall over. I was quite surprised.

lisa wallace

It ripped from here, all the way down, it took his whole face off.

john makus

This was not a dog bite, it was attempted dismemberment. There is no way to describe the savagery and carnage.

isaiah brown

The dog had tore into his calf and when he let go, he just snatched and pulled all the arteries out. He was lying on the steps, and when I checked his vital signs he was already dead then.

meagan garrow

I’m a monster, mommy. I look creepy.

reginald bell

The dogs were actually eating him alive. It's not easy to picture.

wanda greer

I heard the bones crush on his left arm. The dog bit the boy’s face and neck, ripped his lip and bent his arm back like paper.

jim dunn

The dogs were possessed. [The baseball bats] would knock them down, and like cartoon characters, they would shake their heads then go right back to biting even worse.

richard woods

I'm missing my biceps. I nearly lost my eye, but the doctors were able to save it.

joe mazza

It looks like a chainsaw. It is amazing how fast, just in seconds, how much damage this pit bull can do.

ona deane-gordly

The [pit bull] jumped off the balcony and onto my head.

nathan anderson

She has a steel plate under her right cheek from where the dog broke her face. Her whole face is all scarred -- completely.

angela silva

I'm being attacked and I'm just looking for a place to put my son because he would have killed him in a second. So I found a garbage can and I placed my son in the garbage can.

melanie young

I didn’t believe he would ever hurt me...ever. That dog slept with me like a husband.

simone domino

They tore off half of her ear, ripped her eyelid and split open her lips. She has stitches and staples to close the wounds.

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