Luckily, they arrived in time and Sophie was seen.Īn hour and a half later, with a bill of $4,500, Sophie was sent home which surprised Barbian, who was eventually taken to the emergency room at Ascension Franklin Hospital to treat her hands. in Oak Creek.įormerly a 24-hour clinic, when they arrived, Barbian discovered it was now only open until 8 p.m. Her sister, who lives nearby, drove Barbian and the terrier to Blue Pearl Pet Hospital, 9472 S. First responders wrapped Barbian’s bleeding hands, but she insisted she had to get Sophie to a vet immediately before receiving further care herself. Soon sirens sounded as someone had called 911. “I’d lost my shoes there and my clothes were covered in blood.” “The little terrier still had her eyes open, so I grabbed her, and I ran and I just said, ‘help, help, somebody help me,’” Barbian recounted. Linda, sadly, “died right on the grass,” she said. The encounter lasted less than a minute, Barbian estimates, but “it seemed like forever.” “He didn’t know who was dead, he didn’t know if I was hurt, he just went on his merry way and nobody’s seen him since,” Barbian said. Eventually the dogs stopped their attack and they, along with their owner, ran back across the street, got into their vehicle and drove away. She was trying to pry the small dogs from the mouths of the shepherds, receiving puncture wounds in both hands in the process. “He was directing me like it was my fault,” Barbian said. She said he was also yelling at her to stop screaming and pick up her dogs. The owner of the four attacking dogs, a man Barbian described as in his 30s with long hair, came over and wrapped his legs around one of the larger German shepherds. The four larger dogs attacked the two dogs Barbian was walking ― a Chihuahua named Linda and a terrier named Sophie. Here she sits with Scooter, another dog she walks. Jill Barbian of Oak Creek said she was attacked by four German shepherds while walking two small dogs on Nov.
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