DALLAS COUNTY — A Dallas County woman says she nearly lost her life in a dog attack in late April.
Sixty-year-old Kathy Dunn says she still has countless cuts and bruises that remind her of the attack on April 19, when 8 dogs viciously attacked her outside her home in Sand Branch, an unincorporated part of Dallas County near Seagoville.
“They really tried to kill me! I thought I was going to die,” says Dunn. “I could feel the bites more in my neck and in my head and in my arms and in my legs. I just tried to cover my face and roll in sand.”
Dunn says the unleashed dogs attacked her after her neighbor released the pack of dogs outside his gate.
“Maybe 3 to 5 minutes they were attacked in me. Maybe longer than that. I’m a believer he let the dogs out on me,” Dunn said.
Dunn was rushed to the emergency room, with bites all over her body, and had to have more than a hundred stretches and staples. Since the attack, Dunn has been recovering at the trauma center at Baylor University Medical Center – Dallas campus, where she has already had three surgeries, and will soon need a fourth to repair the skin on her leg.