A JOGGER was left in excruciating pain after being mauled by a German Shepherd on her bum.
The dog sank it’s teeth into her twice, shredded her leggings and left her with blood pouring down her leg.
Kennedy NewsSally considers herself lucky that the attack was on her bum not anywhere else[/caption]
Kennedy NewsAs a dog trainer and owner she said she is very used to handling reactive dogs[/caption]
Kennedy NewsThe dog left four puncture marks in Sally’s right bum cheek and leg[/caption]
Sally Dodgson was getting ready for a run when she was mauled in Dartmouth park, in Morley near Leeds, on August 10.
The 43-year-old felt a horrendous pain in her right bum cheek as the dog bit her twice.
She felt the blood running down her leg whilst the owner dragged the German Shepherd away.
“If that had been a child that could have ripped there whole face off,” Sally said.
She went to nearby St George’s Centre hospital in Leeds to seek treatment.
Sally, from Morley, said the wound is still healing and that “it hurts at work, it hurts to sit down.”
The savage attack occurred just before Sally’s lunchtime run as part of her marathon training.
She was lacing up her trainers and putting in headphones when she saw the dog and owner coming towards her.
“I didn’t think for a moment it was reactive. I just moved out the way,” Sally said.
“It went past me and then came back a millisecond later, it shocked the life out of me.
“The next thing I felt a massive pain in my bum and I knew it had got me, I felt the pain instantly.”
She said the dog bit her twice, leaving her leggings hanging open and blood pooling in her sock.
Sally demanded the owner stop and she took his details. He apologised in broken English: “I know it’s wrong, she doesn’t normally do this. She’s a bit barky and a rescue.”
Sally is a dog trainer, who works with temperamental dogs daily and owns two rescue dogs herself.
She said “most dog bites you’ll see in the street are normally dogs that will have bitten as a last resort, this didn’t feel like a last resort to me.”
Sally later tried to contact the owner from hospital, but she claimed he blocked her number and hung up when she called from another phone.
Sally asked a passerby to assess the bite, when he saw the blood he urged her to get it seen to by a doctor.
In A&E the puncture marks were cleaned and bandaged. Doctor’s also gave her a tetanus shot and a course of antibiotics.
“It was bleeding constantly. It was only when I got to St George’s and saw the photos it dawned on me how bad the bite was
“The dog was on me for maybe one-and-a-half seconds, it wasn’t long,” Sally said.
“It bit my whole right bum cheek. It’s probably lucky it got me there than anywhere else,” she added.
As owner of dog training business DogSwot she said: “you’ve got to take responsibility and a lot of people just aren’t.”
She added that temperamental dogs should be muzzled in busy areas so future attacks can be avoided.
“I don’t care if its a rescue, I don’t care whether its nervous we are responsible for re-training our dogs.”
She added: “I want that dog seized and assessed in a kennel and potentially euthanised if it fails assessment.
West Yorkshire Police confirmed the log of the incident.
Kennedy NewsSally called for owners to take more responsibility for their aggressive dogs[/caption]
Kennedy NewsSally said she is most angry that the owner blocked her number[/caption]
Kennedy NewsThe bite is still healing and Sally said it hurts to sit down[/caption] Published: [#item_custom_pubDate]
