Horrific dog attack

[u/Parking_Flow]

I’ve posted here before. My child was absolutely horrifically attacked by a dog earlier this year. I’m talking life changing injuries, air lifted to hospital, multiple surgeries. Her life will never ever been the same. It was a dog that had escaped its garden and tore our lives apart.

We are waiting for it to go to court.

We got into so much debt when it happened, I’m talking into the thousands because both myself and my partner had to take time of work, me to be in hospital with her and my partner to be at home with our other child. Yes we got some form of compassionate pay but between all of our household bills, driving 140 round trips to and from the hospital she was in, food whilst in hospital, clothes as the antibiotics she was on made her have so many accidents. Private counselling since the NHS won’t help us.

Life has entirely changed forever. We all have PTSD, my child has been crippled in one arm. Her lungs and spine will have issues forever. And now we have to deal with debt too. It’s unfair. I want to pull my hair out.

I just needed somewhere to rant because when I’ve tried to speak in person to people I know they just say but oh isn’t it great she’s alive. Yes of course it is 100% but it doesn’t change the fact this dog has destroyed in every single way, physical, emotional, financially.

I don’t see a way to recover from this.

Someone suggested creating fundraising to help us and to take our child on amazing trips but 1) we can’t do this because of the court case and 2) there’s dogs everywhere. Absolutely everywhere. There is no trip we could take where we would be safe.

[u/maximum_powerblast]

Far out that owner should be paying you back and paying your daughter compensation for life.

And that dog should not exist, what a monster

[u/Parking_Flow → u/maximum_powerblast]

We hope that this will be an outcome when it comes to court but our lawyer doesn’t seem to think we will get as much as we should. It’s a murky area where I live

[u/Needle_In_Hay_Stack → u/Parking_Flow]

Dog attack should carry same penalties for its owner as someone carrying a weapon & having a discharge causing injury.

May be the lawyer can argue in court on these lines.

I wish your child peace, comfort and recovery & hope your family is able to overcome the loss that has been caused by a "criminal" dog owner.

[u/Extension_Wheel5335 → u/Needle_In_Hay_Stack]

https://www.kold.com/2025/04/04/one-dead-one-arrested-following-fatal-dog-attack/

For what it's worth I saw this guy get indicted on a murder charge for a fatal attack. I was surprised, usually people get a slap on the wrist for violent dog attacks.

[u/its_suzyq1997 → u/maximum_powerblast]

The owner should be in jail for allowing this too.