DALLAS — A Dallas woman and her puppy recovering from brutal pit bull attack that had them both badly in need of emergency medical care.
On Nov. 27th, Laura Hunt was walking her 6-month-old Aussie puppy, Bean, when she says a pit bull jumped out of an alley and began attacking them both.
"I just remember yelling 'he’s killing her, he’s killing her,'" Hunt told WFAA.
"I just started screaming because I had nothing to defend us," she continued. "I had no weapon, I just had literally Birkenstocks on, and I was trying to kick the dog."
First, Hunt said the dog bit her through her sweatshirt, sinking its teeth in her back. Then it went for Bean, strangled her by the throat, ripped parts of her gums out of her mouth and skin off of her legs.
"I really thought one of us was going to die," she said.
Hunt's neighbors heard the screaming, grabbed a shovel and beat the pit bull until it stopped.
"When we finally got this dog off her, my dog, I thought she was dead."
Hunt said Bean needed four teeth and a mouth bone removed. Her eyes hemorrhaged from strangulation of her throat.
"I thought he gauged one of her eyes out," she added.
Bean’s medical bills are upwards of $6,000.
"I’m just really angry now that someone had such a violent, aggressive animal not under control," she said.
Hunt said the pit bull was euthanized, but now worries there might be more in her neighborhood. She told WFAA she hopes her story serves as a cautionary tale, and also a reminder that people, like the ones who saved her and Bean, are good.
"I didn’t know them, but they came and risked their own lives...and they were heroes, to me."
The family's GoFundMe for medical bills can be found here.