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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.
state police news release
His right hand had been bitten off by a pit bull dog in the house.
tage wright
Maybe [the pit bulls] know a mad carpenter with a framing hammer when they see one. They have teeth. I have a hammer.
crosson family
The emergency care flight alone cost $18,000.
marjorie boyd
This is not just a bite. This is a mauling. This is an unprovoked mauling, and there's a big difference.
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.
scott sands
Margaret, if you hear me, call the cops. The [pit bull] is killing me!
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...
joyce lovette
I haven't really been an advocate of the pit bull ordinance until now...Nothing was gonna stop those dogs. Nothing.
michael jones
This dog [pit bull] was trying to kill my daddy. That's all I could think about. I wasn’t going to let no dog take out my daddy.
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.
david blair
It was an instantaneous attack. No noise, no warning.
reginald bell
The dogs were actually eating him alive. It's not easy to picture.
andrew "moses" diodati
I was kicking one pit bull so hard that all four of its feet were in the air, but it still wouldn't let go.
roommate
He'll need 'lots and lots' of surgery over 'lots and lots' of years.
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.
denise saurman
One bite ripped the skin off his back. It looked like a fur coat hanging off from around his belly.
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 on to my head.
stephanie nilsen
It was close to 96 stitches because she kept stitching and stitching and stitching and I just lost count. He ripped up all the tissue from my bone, so they couldn't be able to stitch all of it up.
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.
sue thompson
I was hitting him in the head with a hammer, and Bob was too.
flint selby
It disturbed me pretty good to see a dog run a horse to death.
jennifer walker
It looked like a murder scene. It looked so bad I had to turn away at one point. I thought I was going to get sick.
charlena sylvesters
Seven months pregnant, he locked onto her stomach, and we had to get him off of her.
rhonda dugger
It looked like my mother's legs had been run over by a car. Pieces of her body were scattered around the scene.
angel germain
Someone has to do something about it and I'm not going to rest until my child and everyone else in Broward County is protected from these pit bulls.
sam campbell
She’s struggling with this, the dog attack, the loss of her arms and not being able to get around.
rudy bernal
He was dragging her, and all her scalp was hanging by her side. He wouldn't turn her loose. He would let her go and attack her again. I saw police shoot the dog with a stun gun. That's the only way they could cut him loose.
jean kidd (911 call)
I think I see blood everywhere, so please come in a hurry...I heard her screaming, and I just went to find a neighbor, because there's no way I'm going across.
sandra goodwin
We saw the pit bull running at us from about 150 yards away," Sandra said. "It was coming at us like a bullet.
timothy jacobs
Within five minutes Page's face was gone. I heard her screaming, "Help me, help me."
brandon dillingham
The first time he looked in the mirror, it scared him, and he asked if it was his face. He says he wants his other mouth back.
maureen faibish
We never trained them [our pit bulls] to do any kinds of vicious things...This is just a devastating tragedy.
kenneth garrison
I was always one that said pits are fine and they're only mean if you train them to be that way. This thing made a liar out of me [after it attacked my baby son].
eugene gierlach
He said his father's body was missing flesh on his leg, including a portion that was "just bone."
nick foley
If it's not going to get better, why should I have this arm? I want to chop it off. I wish I could set it on fire.
dave monroe
These dogs (pit bulls) were bred to fight. It's in their blood -- and we're making pets out of them.
amaya hess website
When the claw end of a hammer was used to pop open his locked jaw, half of Amaya's scalp was missing, her right eye was not in its socket and her right ear was torn from the side of her head.
christina voight
The dog ate half of her arm off, her back and leg, its like a gaping hole, nothing there.
clarence webber
They tore my eyelash up there pretty good. They did a job on me.
joanna foster
It was like "shoosh," like a crocodile coming out of the water. He (the pit bull) wasn't there and then, all of a sudden, he was there. Like a wild animal.
sue gorman
I thought, 'OK, my arm's still there... there's the muscle... and there's the bone... those are intact... people survive this... let's just pretend we're watching it on TV so we don't freak out.
son (911 call)
We can't get to my mom and my brother just went out there and they [the pit bulls] attacked him too. They don't need to get out of the ambulance or the dogs will try to get them, too.
raylene smith
I can't remember the pain, I can only remember the terror. I remember thinking, they're killing me and I can't stop them...
brooklynn police
Rocky [the pit bull] went wild in the midst of six playing and sleeping children, mauling Kamar.
Donna Castelli
I'd kiss them on the forehead. They were lovely dogs [until they killed a 12-year old boy].
len epperson
I would kick him in the nose with the bottom of my foot and it would be just enough to push him back, but then he immediately kept coming on. He wasn't backing off, he wasn't giving up.
lillian robinson
Anybody who'd have a dog like that is a shock to me. I told her to be careful because those dogs will turn on you.
peggy weldon
I thought she was gonna bleed to death, she had so much blood pouring out of her arm.
chicago tribune
Chunks of muscle were missing from his limbs, leaving bone-deep divots papered over with grafted skin. The left side of his face bore two thick, half-moon scars where his cheek had been ripped open like a tent flap.
sima blossom
He was punching the dog, and he even sat on her. It was the most unbelievable thing I've ever seen. Everyone was trying to help. Someone poured hot coffee on the dog. Someone even dropped a flower pot on its head, but she would not let go.
kelly edwards
The small one came out and leaped for me and got me on my side, and I fell. Then, when I was on the ground they were snapping at me and biting me.
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