It was last July 4 when Slayden Figg was attacked by a pack of three dogs. Figg was just a block from his home in Tower Grove East, taking his own dog, a Pomeranian-husky mix named Sonic, for a short walk, when the trio attacked.
“I wanted to get my dog run around before the fireworks started,” Figg, 29, recalls. They were on South Grand near Jay International Foods when he looked up to see the dogs—three bully style pit bull mixes, all unleashed—headed towards them. “I picked my dog up, and when I picked him up, they tripped me and just mauled us.”
Erin Braitberg-Barker was driving by, witnessed the carnage, and pulled over to pepper spray the dogs and help Figg get away. She described the attack as “terrifying.” Figg was bleeding profusely when bystanders helped him into a car to get away from the carnage. When the ambulance they called never came, he drove himself to the hospital…