A 9-year-old Lengthy Island woman suffered horrific accidents when she was viciously attacked by a neighbor’s pit bull, leaving her with {a partially} indifferent ear and lots of of staples.
Daniella Schlauch, of Bay Shore, is fortunate to be alive following the terrifying Saturday assault.
“He could’ve killed me if no one was out there,” the plucky woman instructed CBS New York.
Daniella was getting out of the automobile exterior her home when the pooch charged at her, biting her face.
Her dad Pat Schlauch did his finest to guard her.
“I didn’t have time to think but I knew I had to save my daughter’s life,” he instructed News12 Lengthy Island. “The dog just jumped right on her. I was coming out of the house. I just jumped right on his back and held his head down so he couldn’t shake.”
He mentioned the canine’s proprietor got here and known as the canine off Daniella.
The fourth-grader was left with a concussion, lots of of stitches and staples and wounds to her head, hand and foot.
A part of her ear wanted to be reattached, in line with CBS.
“It pulled me down to the ground and it wouldn’t let go,” Daniella mentioned. “He was just really shaking my head right here, then he let go for a second and started doing it on my head up here.”
Her dad added to News12, “He could’ve killed her. He just missed her eye. Her eyebrow is cut in half. Nine staples in her head. The doctor didn’t even know how many stitches he put in.”
The woman must go to a plastic surgeon within the coming weeks.
In the meantime, the Schlauch household needs the canine — which is being saved by the City of Islip for 10 days — eliminated for good. Schlauch mentioned the canine house owners don’t have a fence round their property. In addition they have been summonsed for not having a license for the animal.
“I want the dog to be removed from the home because we’re afraid to go outside of our house because the dog is still unrestrained and it can escape and attack someone else,” Daniella’s mom, Teresa Schlauch mentioned.
The woman’s brother, George, mentioned that the pitbull had run round from their neighbor’s again door.
The household filed a harmful canine utility — circumstances that are heard by a choose inside 5 days. The choose can order the canine to be retrained, eliminated or euthanized.
“It’s like that the dog who attacked my sister has more rights than she does right now,” George mentioned, referring to the pup’s ready interval.
He added that the neighbor’s pet has “been known to easily just open the latch on the back door and escape, which he has done numerous times before.”
CBS New York couldn’t attain the proprietor for remark.
