Blood spurted everywhere when a dog mauled me in a park… here’s how I knew it would attack me
A WOMAN screamed in horror as she saw “blood squirting everywhere” after a dog viciously attacked her in the park.
Jucena Ali was walking her own pet outside a café in Cwmdonkin Park, Swansea, on Saturday April, 29 when she noticed a short-haired border collie wondering alone.
Although the mutt was wearing a lead, Jucena grew concerned that the owner was nowhere to be seen.
The 27-year-old quickly put her own pooch on it’s leash and tried calming talking to the approaching collie.
She told WalesOnline: “You can always tell by a dog’s body language what’s going to happen.”
Jucena tried to move her emotional support dog, Reggie, out of the way but the border collie started behaving in a manner that indicated it was ready to attack.
Within seconds the canine had its jaws locked around the horrified dog walker’s arm.
After releasing its gip for a moment, it launched another attack, and Jucena described the mutt manically shaking its head from side to side.
She explained: “Because I screamed in pain, I think that’s when the owner decided to take the dog off me.
“I felt something warm trickling down my arm so I lifted up my sleeve and there was blood squirting everywhere.”
It shocked her to see “fatty tissue” hanging out of the puncture wounds, as blood continued to pour out of her arm.
“There was blood dripping down my arms and down my fingers and my poor dog was covered in my own blood,” she added.
The brutal attack left her so scared, she broke down and started experiencing a panic attack due to “sheer shock.”
Fortunately, a member of the public stepped in and put pressure on Jucena’s wounds.
The dog-attack victim expressed her gratitude for the love and support she received from the community following the incident.
But, the 27-year-old claimed this was not the first time this particular dog had tried to launch an attack on her own pet.
She alleged the owner only stepped in once the dog had bitten Jucena, because of the frequent run-ins.
I felt something warm trickling down my arm so I lifted up my sleeve and there was blood squirting everywhere.”
Jucena Ali
According to the victim, the aggressive dog’s owner shouted and swore at her after the incident.
She added: “It’s not the dog’s fault. It’s the owner’s responsibility.
“Border collies are very smart and they need a lot of attention and a lot of activities.
“If you’re failing to provide the amount of activities they need, they get agitated and angry.”
The disgusted pet owner pointed out if the dog had sunk its teeth into a child, it would have been a very different story.
“It could have been a broken arm or a ruined face and as a child when you witness something like that it creates fear,” she added.
And, Jucena is still experiencing the after-effects of the attack, battling anxiety when in the area, and walking her pup.
She explained: “I don’t want people to say all dogs should be on leads.
“You just need to be closer to your dog and pay more attention to its body language.”
It could have been a broken arm or a ruined face and as a child when you witness something like that it creates fear.”
Jucena Ali
South Wales Police have been contacted for comment.
This comes as it was revealed last month that dangerous dog attacks have risen by 34 per cent in England and Wales over the past five years.
And, figures suggest Jucena was lucky to escape with her life as last year there were 10 dog-related deaths and more than 2,000 people required surgery after being savaged by them.
One little boy was brutally mauled while out playing football with his friends in February.
Giorgi Fullbirg-Taylor suffered “severe” bite wounds after a jet-black mixed terrier mutt locked his jaws around the 10-year-old.
The young lad has only left his house twice and still can’t move his left arm properly.
Another three-year-old boy was also mauled in the street by a vicious XL bully dog and barely escaped with his life.
Little Denis Jano suffered terrible injuries to his face and scalp after the powerful beast clamped his head in its jaws as he played outside.
Only the swift action of hero neighbours, who fought to pull the snarling dog off terrified Denis, stopped the attack.
One woman had to have her whole arm amputated after an American bulldog locked on with its jaws.
Joanna Harris was fostering the mutt with hopes to adopt, but claimed the RSPCA failed to tell her that the dog had attacked two women eight months before it turned on her.
LOOK OUT
This comes as the worst places in the UK for dog bite attacks have been revealed.
The first person killed this year was Surrey woman Natasha Johnston, 28, who died from “multiple penetrating dog bites to the neck”.
Less than a month later little Alice Stones, four, was mauled to death by her family dog in Milton Keynes.
The worst area in the UK, between April and November last year, was Kent and Medway, where a whopping 250 attacks were recorded.
That averaged more than four attacks a week where surgery was required.
Black Country was the next worst area, clocking in 180 savagings, closely followed by Coventry and Warwickshire with 170, and Devon with 165.
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West; Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire; Birmingham and Solihull; Cheshire and Mersusode; and Hampshire and Isle of Wight also closely followed with 160 attacks reported in the seven-month period.
BRITAIN’S DEADLY DOGS
The Sun recently looked into Britain’s deadly dog attack epidemic, where beasts are sold on Snapchat amid calls for the breed to be banned.
American Bully XLs are at the centre of an attack epidemic that has killed ten Brits in the last 12 months.
The American Bully got recognition as a breed from US United Kennel Club in 2013.
It’s been called a “natural extension” of the better known American Pit Bull Terrier.
The youngest victim was Bella Rae-Birch, just 17-months when a family dog – bought a week before the attack – savaged her to death.
Mum-of-two Joanne Robinson, 43, was killed by her Bully XL Rocco after he “turned mad and snapped”, pinning her throat to the floor with his jaws last July.
While 10-year-old schoolboy Jack Lis was killed by another dog in November 2021.