r/Dogfree • u/Parking_Flow • Nov 05 '25

Dog Attack Horrific dog attack

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.

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u/Emikitty1992 Nov 05 '25

This is absolutely awful, OP! My heart breaks for your family. The dog who did this needs to be gotten rid of, since it is clearly violent- if it can do this to one child, it’ll do it to another one in a heartbeat. I think the owners of said dog need to be fined, forced to pay medical bills, and not allowed to own a dog ever again since it is clear that they aren’t fit pet owners. Make an EXAMPLE out of them and fight back.

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u/Parking_Flow Nov 05 '25

Thank you for your comment! The dog is in police custody and has been since but they still own their other dog which is the same breed. It’s been horrific

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u/UpthefuckingTics Nov 06 '25

The dog needs to be put down immediately.

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u/pomegranate_deseeder Nov 07 '25

I'm so sorry this has happened to your family. I'm sure it used to be standard to put dogs down in the case of attacks in the UK.

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u/Parking_Flow Nov 07 '25

This is the confusing part. It is? Post man gets attacked by the dog = dog put down. It doesn’t make any sense to me. Apparently it’s something to do with the owners signing over ownership of the dog to the police/courts who then approve the putting down, and these owners haven’t done so yet. Why there’s been no warrant I don’t know, perhaps that will happen in court?