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A WOMAN has revealed her faced was “ripped off” by a Rottweiler in a vicious street attack.
Kelsea Morgan, from Llanelli in South Wales, was left scarred for life after the dog latched to her face.
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The mum-of-one was left in excruciating pain after her friend’s giant Rottweiler and Pitbull cross sank its jaws into her cheek.
The 33-year-old was at a pal’s house in Swansea when they heard loud noises coming out from outside the property in September 2022.
When the pair rushed to see what was happening, they spotted the distressed dog running in and out of the house.
In a bid to calm down the pooch, Kelsea sat down next to the dog to soothe it.
But she claimed the dog “saw red” and sunk its teeth into her cheek during a mortifying 20 seconds.
In a state of panic, she thought the dog was going to “pull her face off”.
Kelsea told The Mirror: “There was so much blood that I couldn’t see. I was wiping the blood away and I kept checking my hands to see if any flesh had come off.”
She was then admitted into hospital for an hour-long emergency surgery.
Kelsea was left with 15 stitches in the hole of her cheek, six in her septum and three in her nostril.
After the operation, she spent a week in agony – unable to talk, yawn or eat for days after the operation.
Scarred for life, the trainee solicitor was so ashamed of her face that she couldn’t look at her mum without crying, she said.
She added: “I never used to wear a lot of makeup but now I don’t leave the house without it and tend to cover up the dent where the scar was. It’s a part of me now and I do have to accept it.”
After the vile attack, Kelsea reported the incident to South Wales Police and the dog was subjected to a destruction order.
Cops charged Keslea’s pal with being a person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control and causing injury.
As a result, they were slapped with a 12-month community order, six month tagged curfew and they were forced to pay a whopping £1,000 in compensation.
Despite the dog being put down, Kelsea said the nightmare has left her “petrified” forever.
She said: “I just wouldn’t trust dogs, even the ones you have in your own house as they are wild animals and they have a natural instinct to attack.”
Kelsea has now warned other dog lovers to be aware of certain breeds as they can have a “natural instinct to attack”.
It comes as a toddler was mauled by his family’s pet XL Bully.
The three-year-old was left “seriously bleeding” after the pet hound sunk its teeth into his face.
Dangerous Dogs Act explained
After eleven horrific attacks in 1991, Home Secretary Kenneth Baker promised “to rid the country of the menace of these fighting dogs” by introducing the Dangerous Dogs Act.
The law is often considered controversial as it focuses on a dog’s breed or looks instead of an individual dog’s behaviour, and fails to stem the rise of dog attacks.
According to the RSPCA, over a third of the people killed by dogs since the act was brought in were attacked by legal breeds.
What does the XL Bully ban mean?
It is now illegal to breed, sell, advertise or rehome the hounds.
If you own one, you should have a certificate of exemption from the government.
They should be kept on a lead and be muzzled in public as well as having them neutered and having third party liability insurance.
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