A woman was bitten several times by a pit bull that attacked her Yorkie dog and required medical attention for the injuries suffered.
The incident occurred on Monday in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven located at 2100 45th Street, in West Palm Beach.
The victim was walking with her dog Pochita when she saw a white and brown pitbull that was loose pounce fiercely on her pet.
The owner immediately reacted to protect the Yorkie, grabbed him and held him in her arms, but she could not prevent the pitbull from throwing her to the ground and biting her on her legs and arms, where she suffered serious injuries.
The owner of the dog is calledLiliana Marbles, is 35 years old and resides in Miami. He was able to save his life thanks to two passers-by who managed to get the dog off of him and called 911.
"I saw the dog with a piece of my arm practically," he toldTelemundo.
"I grabbed it with this arm and lifted it high. As I lifted it high, the beast of a dog bit me here, stood on top of me, made these scratches and I fell," he detailed.
A video released byLocal 10 allows you to see a police officer applying a tourniquet to his arm to stop the bleeding.
The pit bull's owner arrived at the scene on her bicycle and tried to flee with the animal, but both she and her dog were detained.
West Palm Beach Police spokesman Mike Jachels confirmed that she "had the dog on a leash, but apparently it somehow managed to get loose while the victim was walking her mini Yorkie."
According to what he said, the first agent who arrived picked up the dog and put it under protection in the patrol car. "Subsequently, he applied first aid to the victim by placing a tourniquet on the arm that was severely injured," he said.
Minutes later, Liliana was taken to the hospital where she underwent two operations on her arm. As of Thursday, she remained hospitalized.
"My dog was born the day before my mother died. I named her Pochita because that was my mother's name. Imagine if I was like this and my dog also died, what would I do? I don't think I could have survived another loss." , she said through tears.
A fundraising campaign was created online on the GoFundMe platform to help cover medical expenses.
The Department of Animal Care and Control took the pit bull away while authorities investigate the attack.
At the end of January,two dogs - one of them a pitbull - brutally attacked a man in a wheelchair in Florida City, they threw him to the ground and attacked him with bites.
The victim, known in the neighborhood as Smoky, was rushed to Ryder Trauma Center in Jackson South with serious arm injuries that required two surgeries.
A video released showed Smoky lying on the sidewalk being bitten by the dogs, while the driver of a semi-trailer truck standing in the cab sounded a horn to scare away the animals. Other people threw things at them, but no one came forward to try to stop the attack.
In August, aresident in Miami was fiercely attacked by three dogs when she left her house to throw out the trash.
The 61-year-old woman lost her left ear and had part of her face disfigured, in addition to other injuries on her body.
"I tried to get them off me and they attacked me more, they bit me everywhere. My arms, my legs, my thighs, my breasts," she said.
The three dogs, two German shepherds and an American bulldog, were the property of the owners of the apartment where the victim was renting.
The woman survived thanks to the help of a neighbor who came to her rescue, since the dogs' owners were not at home. The animals were sacrificed.
In July, aCuban woman was attacked by two dogs when she left her house to go to work in Miami.
Gemma Garcia, 53, was admitted to Jackson Memorial Hospital with injuries to her right arm and hand, legs and back.
The woman said she started screaming and a neighbor came to her aid.
"They attacked me, they threw me to the floor, they both attacked me at the same time. They were quite big, one attacked me by the arm and the other by the leg...", he explained from the hospital.
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