A SHAKEN mum told how her arm was bitten through to the bone after a horror street attack by a crazed dog.
Terri Brown, 43, was walking to her local supermarket when the Japanese Akita sprinted across the road and pounced on her.
Mum-of-three Terri Brown was mauled by the crazed animal during the street attackJohn Kirkby
Japanese Akita Teddy pounced on the mum and left her with horror injuries
SuppliedThe crazed dog bit her arm right through to the bone, ripping off skin[/caption]
Plastic surgeons had to use skin from her thigh for grafts to cover the gaping wound. And she says the incident left her with “life-changing’’ physical and mental scars.
Terri recalled her ordeal after Nijole Tamuliene, 63, and her partner Jurgis Tamulis, 58, were sentenced at Falkirk Sheriff Court after admitting being in charge of an out-of-control dog.
She’d spotted the brute, called Teddy, outside a Tesco in nearby Camelon last November. Tamuliene was walking it on a rope.
The mum of three said: “It had stopped to do the toilet, so I crossed the road to get out of its way.
“I didn’t speak to the owner, I didn’t know her.”
Terri then felt a sharp pain and a heavy weight pulling on her left arm.
She said: “I wriggled my arm out of my sleeve and saw blood on the road.
“Skin on my forearm was flapping open and I could see tissue and bone.
“I went numb with shock.” The dog then went for Terri’s face, biting her left hand as she tried to protected herself, before the attack finally ended.
A passer-by called an ambulance and Terri was taken to Forth Valley Hospital then St John’s Hospital, Livingston, for plastic surgery.
Yet dog-lover Terri said she felt “sorry” for Teddy — after a sheriff ruled he’ll be put down.
She instead blames its owners Tamuliene and Tamulis, who were ordered to pay her £1,000 compensation, carry out 150 hours of unpaid work and were banned from owning or caring for animals for five years.
Terri said: “They should be jailed and hang their heads in shame for doing this to an innocent pet.”
SuppliedPlastic surgeons had to use skin from her thigh for grafts to cover the gaping wound[/caption]
John KirkbyTerri has been left with physical and mental scars from the harrowing ordeal[/caption]
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