A 4-year-old Fort Lauderdale girl is facing a long recovery after a dog clamped onto her leg and foot outside an apartment complex off Northwest 19th Street on Friday. Her family says she has already undergone surgery and will need follow-up plastic surgery on her foot. The child’s mother, Brittany McKinney, says the dog had a collar and looked cared for, even though officers at the scene initially could not find an owner.
Mother Describes the Attack
McKinney told WSVN that the dog suddenly came around a curb, grabbed her daughter, and then bit her when she tried to pull the child away. She said she started screaming for help as the struggle unfolded. “I’m just like terrified, this dog could kill us, like, we might die here,” she told the station……