A 2-year-old girl was visiting a dog rescue center when she had part of her nose bitten off by a pooch that was ‘running loose.
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Alice Eady and her family went to the AA Dog Rescue Center in Essex when she was attacked by a small dog.
Her mom, Olivia Frances-Snook, was filling out some paper works when the dog suddenly jumped on Alice and bit off part of her nose.
The family then discovered that the pooch belonged to one of the owners of the rescue center, Karen James, and wasn’t an AA-rescue dog.
According to court papers, the incident occurred at the rescue center’s premises at Oldfield, Lodge, Latchingdon in Essex.
The 22-year-old mother said they went to the rescue center to adopt a dog they had seen online.
“After toing and froing, we went to view the dog but when we got there the dog wasn’t there but they said we could look around at their other dogs. We didn’t want to have a wasted day so we went round,” Ms. Snook said.
“When it happened I was filling out paperwork because we had seen a dog we wanted to re-home.
“There were dogs running around and they had been put away a couple of times and someone put them away.
“Someone had let them back out again and one of them approached my daughter and she turned around to say hi and it just jumped at her.”
The pooch was running around when it jumped at Alice and bit her nose.
“I just felt shocked. I didn’t know how bad it was. My partner Zach was shouting: ‘She’s missing part of her face,’” Ms. Snook went on.
“We took her outside and there was so much blood I couldn’t see how bad it was. One person threw a towel over her and said she was fine. Someone else came up to us and said she might need a tetanus.
“A small triangle of her nose was taken off and the hospital said they were going to clean it up.
“Alice wasn’t being a nuisance, she was well-behaved and didn’t provoke the dog.”
The doctors stitched the woods and the parents were told that their daughter may need reconstructive surgery.
“She just had a face full of stitches, it was awful to see her like that. Because her cartilage was showing they had to stitch it up.”
Ms. Snooks added: “She will still say: ‘I love dogs mummy’ but if she sees a dog she won’t go up to them. If she hears barking she cries.
“My mum has four dogs and Alice has grown up around them but she’s slightly wary of them now. One time they starting barking and she screamed and cried.”
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