Shue required around 70 stitches to her face after the harrowing attack (Picture: Solent News & Photo Agency)
A mother has spoken out after a ‘horrific’ incident where she and her pet Shih Tzu were attacked by an off-leash Rottweiler which left her with lifelong facial scars.
Shue Leung, 52, had been walking her small dog near their home in Hampshire when she was pulled to the ground by the Rottweiler, which was off its lead.
The Rottweiler attacked her face as she tried to protect her pup from harm.
Ms Leung suffered severe facial injuries, leaving her in a ‘pool of blood’, and she says she is now ‘scarred for life’.
A witness called an ambulance and she was rushed to hospital, where she got around 70 stitches to close the wounds on her face.
‘I was walking my dog. Every morning we do it about that time,’ she told the Daily Echo.
She said her son ‘couldn’t cope’ when he saw her injuries (Picture: Solent News & Photo Agency)
‘Just outside our neighbours, I noticed a Rottweiler was off the lead with no muzzle. The owner was walking very far behind him.
‘That is where the Rottweiler saw us. I raised up my dog hoping to grab him.
‘With his full force he pushed me onto the ground. He tried to grab my dogs front arm.
‘I was holding my dog tight. I was curled up so the Rottweiler couldn’t get to my dog.
‘After the dog then attacked me the owner then ran to stop the dog. If the owner had been a bit slower my face could have been worse.’
When Shue got to the hospital, she had to wait over four hours for surgery.
She was left in ‘awful’ pain and spent five hours in theatre.
Ms Leung has said she doesn’t want people to see her scars, and now ‘fears’ going outside.
‘I don’t even want to look at myself in the mirror’, she said.
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