US student reveals new face after horror dog attack
A student suffered “catastrophic” injuries dog-sitting, when the two pets turned on her, leaving 800 bite marks. WARNING: Graphic.
WARNING: Graphic.
A dog-sitter has shared the shocking injuries she suffered to her face after she was bitten 800 times in a vicious dog attack.
Jacqueline Durand was just a day away from celebrating her 22nd birthday in December when she was “catastrophically” mauled by the two dogs – a german shepherd and a boxer-pit bull mix.
The attack was so awful, Jacqueline – supply chain management student at the University of Texas in Dallas – thought she was “going to die”.
The dogs ripped off her ears, nose and face, leaving nothing but bone behind, and she lost 30 per cent of the blood in her body, leaving her hospitalised for 60 days.
The dogs were both later euthanised by officials.
Though Jacqueline still faces a lengthy recovery and more surgeries on her face, she has gone public with her new face in a bid to inspire dog owners to do more to prevent such attacks.
“I want dog owners to know their animals and be able to communicate with their sitters how they are,” she told CBS News.
“Honestly, I’m speechless.”
Jacqueline said she’d met the dogs, Lucy and Benner, previously at a meet and greet and never had an issues.
“They don’t [usually] change their attitude from the time that I meet them to the time that I go there for the first time.”
However, on the day Jacqueline arrived at Justin and Ashley Bishop’s home, the pair were not the “lovely” pooches she had met previously.
After opening the door, the dogs pounced, dragging her from the front door to the living room.
“When I felt the skin hanging from my face, I thought I was going to die,” she said.
During the attack, Jacqueline was unable to call for help – but emergency services were alerted because an alarm was triggered when the front door was left open.
However it took 37 minutes for paramedics to get to Jacqueline because the dogs were “so aggressive”, MailOnline reported.
After her “catastrophic” injuries were revealed, the Bishops claimed the pets had “no history of violence”.
“I have three kids. One is three years old. No history of violence. None,” Justin Bishop told police.
But a sign on their front door that warns about sleeping babies and “crazy dogs” is being argued as an indicator of negligence, according to a lawsuit filed by Jacqueline’s lawyer Chip Brooker.
“The warning on the front door to me, I think, suggests that the Bishops knew that both of these dogs had acted aggressively to people arriving at the front door,” Mr Brooker told CBS News.
An independent examination of the dogs, completed by an expert, determined “the dogs were dangerous and had vicious propensities”.
Now Jacqueline, whose intense physiotherapy includes her mouth being stretched 1mm at a time so she can eat more, has shared her injuries with the world because she says she “can’t be scared of the world”.
The woman, who had cared for dogs for seven years before the attack, also said she still hopes to work as a dog trainer one day.
“I feel like I didn’t ask for this. So, I think that it’s time to show who I am now, and I can’t be scared of it,” she said.
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