An Adelaide woman tells of the terrifying moment a dog attacked her and how the owners disappeared soon after without giving their details.
An Adelaide woman has told of the terrifying moment a dog attacked her while she was walking with a support group for children who have been traumatised by abuse.She was walking with a group of children at the timeChristie, who did not want her last name published, told ABC Radio Adelaide the dog bit her head and arm while she was walking near the Cowandilla Children's Centre on Saturday morning.
Although she received surgery after the attack, Christie said she was grateful none of the children were hurt."The fact that they ran away so quickly lends me to believe it's not their first rodeo, and this cannot happen to a child.The Cowandilla Children's Centre, in Adelaide's west, is on the same site as Cowandilla Primary School.The group she was with was walking across the children's crossing on Jenkins Street when the attack happened.
"I did not hear the dog growl and it was launching up, it was on my head before I knew it," Christie said. "I looked around, I did not hear it leave the ground, I just saw the tongue, I saw the tongue, I felt the slobber — the saliva on my face — and I saw the teeth and before I knew it, it had my forearm.""I was lower to the ground and just kept thinking 'please don't grab my neck' because it was shaking me at that time," she said.Christie described the dogs as similar to a mastiff.
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