A SHAKEN mum told how her arm was bitten through to the bone after a horror street attack by a crazed dog.
Terri Brown, 43, was walking to her local supermarket when the Japanese Akita sprinted across the road and pounced on her.
Plastic surgeons had to use skin from her thigh for grafts to cover the gaping wound. And she says the incident left her with “life-changing’’ physical and mental scars.
Terri recalled her ordeal after Nijole Tamuliene, 63, and her partner Jurgis Tamulis, 58, were sentenced at Falkirk Sheriff Court after admitting being in charge of an out-of-control dog.
She’d spotted the brute, called Teddy, outside a Tesco in nearby Camelon on November 22, last year. Tamuliene was walking it on a rope.
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The mum-of-three said: “It had stopped to do the toilet, so I crossed the road to get out of its way.
“I didn’t speak to the owner, I didn’t know her.”
Terri then felt a sharp pain and a heavy weight pulling on her left arm.
She said: “I wriggled my arm out of my sleeve and saw blood on the road.
"Skin on my forearm was flapping open and I could see tissue and bone.
“I went numb with shock.”
The dog then went for Terri’s face, biting her left hand as she tried to protected herself, before the attack finally ended.
A passer-by called an ambulance and Terri was taken to Forth Valley Hospital then St John’s Hospital, Livingston, for plastic surgery.
Yet dog-lover Terri said she felt “sorry” for Teddy — after a sheriff ruled he’ll be put down.
She instead blames its owners Tamuliene and Tamulis, who were ordered to pay her £1,000 compensation, carry out 150 hours of unpaid work and were banned from owning or caring for animals for five years.
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Terri said: “They should be jailed and hang their heads in shame for doing this to an innocent pet.
“But next time it could be an elderly person or a child – and that could mean a life –so from that point of view, it’s right the dog should be put to sleep.”
Terri remained in hospital for more than a week, following the ordeal, before she was allowed home to her family – husband Robert, 45, and sons MacKenzie, 18, Kieran, 16, and 13-year-old Riley.
But the long-term effects have been unbearable, with Terri adding: “The pain is there every day, if I lie on my arm during the night, I get a sharp shooting pain which lasts for hours – I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep since.
"I have huge scars and can no longer lift anything remotely heavy."
Her injuries have especially affected her role in being a full-time carer to her hubby who has severe epilepsy and osteoporosis.
She said: “He has mobility issues as a result of violent fits he suffers each month.
“I now find it difficult to get him into the recovery position.”
Yesterday, Sheriff Labaki said: “This is a case where parents have been left in charge of a very large dog which had an order on it to be appropriately muzzled.
“It is very sad that the order to muzzle was ignored.
“That required effort, but that’s what’s so tragic about this case. This could have been avoided. Two people in their sixties with no previous convictions are sitting in the dock.
“I have given consideration to whether a custodial sentence is appropriate. I am satisfied an alternative is appropriate.”
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