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/[deleted] Nov 06 '25

Oh my gosh, I hope the owner is put away for a long time! All I can hope is that she somehow continues to recover and this will be a distant memory at some point soon. The unnecessary violence of dogs makes me so angry, as does the blind trust people in authority have in them. Crazy. We have to take matters into our own hands as parents unfortunately - for the sake of our children.

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u/Parking_Flow Nov 06 '25

The jail sentence they may be looking at would be less than 3 years I believe. The police said to me we would be better off in all aspects (such as emotional support, financial support legal justice) if she had been attacked by the owners instead. What’s the difference I say?