Woman Fighting For Her Life After Being Attacked By A Dog
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LAUDERHILL (CBSMiami) – A woman was rushed to the hospital in critical condition after she was attacked by at least one of her own dogs inside a Lauderhill apartment.
Now she is fighting for her life.
It happened Monday night at the Calypso Cay apartments off S.R. 441 and NW 21st Street.
Yasmin Adam, 43, was visiting her nephew from the Carolinas and brought her three dogs with her. It was the nephew who first saw the dogs attacking her.
"She was lying there and the dogs were on her, biting her, she was telling him to call the police," said neighbor Joyce Jacob.
He did.
When Lauderhill officers entered the apartment, they found one of the dogs attacking the woman in the living room. They tried using pepper spray to make it stop, but it didn't work. That's when one of the officers shot the dog named Lady.
Police were able to hold the other dogs at bay as they got the woman out.
"Her arms, her face, her feet, there was blood on her side and it seem like the dogs were just ripping out her clothes because it was just dangling," said Jacobs.
The dog shot by the officer was taken to the county's animal services where it was euthanized.
A SWAT team was called in to remove the other two dogs from the apartment. The two dogs, a male and a female pit bull mix, were also taken to animal services. It's unknown if those dogs also took part in the attack.
Neighbors were in disbelief when they heard what had happened.
"I said 'Oh my God I can't believe something like that really happened' because those dogs don't really show no aggressiveness, they're passive dogs, like they would be drawing away from you," said Rosemary Waithe. "So it surprised me, it very much surprised me. It's hurting that you grow an animal and it turns on you."
Neighbor Dread Gray knows the dogs well. He says he even offered to buy one from Adam.
"She's been here with the puppies since they were two months old," said Gray. "They are eight months old now. The puppies got in a fight, the big dog attacked her."
The woman suffered severe injuries to her arms, she was taken to Broward Health Medical Center.
"I really think if he hadn't come home she would've gotten killed. At that point she wasn't able to move, she was defenseless, she was in shock just lying there," said Jacob.
Tuesday evening, Lauderhill police released the 911 call made by Adam's nephew when he returned to the apartment and found a dog attacking his aunt.
Nephew: "I have a dog that went rampant in my house and it's starting to attack its owner."
911 Dispatcher: "OK, is it your dog?"
Nephew: "Um, no. It's the owner's dog and it's attacking her right now. It's killing her."
CBS4's Carey Codd was told one of his aunt's mixed pit bulls, a female named Lady, attacked her.
"She's screaming right now," the teen told 911. "It's chewing up her arms"
On the recording you can hear the screams and the dogs barking. Then the nephew became frantic.
"What do you want me to do? What do you want me to do? What do you want me to do?" he screamed. "Let her go! Let her go! Let her go!"
But the dog would not let go.
Adam was alone in the apartment with the dogs when the attack happened. Police have not said what may have caused the dog to attack her.