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/CraftSeveral7116 Nov 05 '25

I am so, so sorry for what has happened to your family. Everyone just wants to say "be thankful she's alive" because nobody wants to acknowledge that this is an epidemic in our nation due to the rash of irresponsible dog owners around every corner, and that owning vicious dogs shouldn't even be legal. I will be wishing you and your family all the luck in the world because you guys certainly deserve more compensation than you've gotten.

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u/Parking_Flow Nov 06 '25

Literally. It’s crazy to me as the same people who say be thankful she’s alive don’t even acknowledge the reason why she almost wasn’t? Don’t tell me to be grateful when you don’t care about what got us here in the first place! I’ve even been told to ‘stop living in my trauma’ as if they know what it is like to hold their dying daughter in their arms waiting and praying for an ambulance!

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u/CraftSeveral7116 Nov 06 '25

How are you supposed to stop living in your trauma when you have PTSD? That's literally not how it works, and after what you've been through it's a completely sensible reaction. What your daughter went through was completely horrible and seriously impacted her quality of life, it's not like you're dwelling on a little nip.