Nathan Dowd said his 20-year-old daughter, Gabi, was attacked by her own dog over the weekend, forcing her to spend Christmas and possibly New Year’s Day in the hospital.
Dowd told only Action News Jax that he got a call from her wife on Sunday saying Gabi had to be rushed from the hospital. Dowd said his wife had first received a call from Gabi’s friend, who was with her at the time of the attack, alerting her that her dog had bitten her arm multiple times.
“It was all pretty frantic,” Dowd said, “when [this] happens, you know, your brain runs a million directions. You just never know.”
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Dowd said Gabi and her friend were at their Orange Park home when the attack happened, and nothing was done to provoke the dog. He said the dog has never been violent with any of their family members since they rescued it as a stray two months ago…