A teenager has issued a dire warning to Australians after she was attacked by a Rottweiler she has known since she was a puppy.
Haylee Owens, 19, was visiting her friend’s house in Noranda, northwest of Perth, on Sunday when a four-year-old dog called Ninja suddenly bit her on the face.
Mrs. Owens’s friends called an ambulance because her forehead had begun to bleed profusely.
The brutal attack left the teenager needing plastic surgery and 28 stitches which she says could leave permanent scars.
Despite having been friends with Ninja for years, Owens said the dog lunged at her in the blink of an eye while “giving him hugs.”
Despite the ordeal, she has since seen her friend’s dog again without incident, but admitted her parents were still “doubtful about the situation.”
Owens urged Australians to always be weary of dogs, no matter the breed or how well they know them.
“You never know what’s going on in their minds or bodies,” he said. PerthNow.
Perth teenager Haylee Owens warned Australians to always be dog-weary after her friend’s Rottweiler, Ninja (both pictured), attacked her without warning.
The teen added that it “only takes a second” for a dog’s behavior to change drastically.
Her statement comes weeks after two women were attacked by three American dogs in Melbourne within 24 hours.
The dogs knocked elderly Christine, 71, to the ground, biting her face, legs and back and breaking her hip.
Surprisingly, the same dogs were still roaming free the next day, when they savagely attacked a young girl who was pushing her little one in a stroller on her way to pick him up from school.
The young mother was saved by good Samaritans who took the dogs from her, but were also injured by the animals in the process.
The three dogs were later euthanized.
Despite knowing the dog since he was a puppy, Ms Owens was left with extensive injuries requiring plastic surgery and 28 stitches that could result in permanent scarring (pictured).
It comes after two other dogs attacked two women in a Perth park in broad daylight last week.
Helen Mato was at John Moloney Park in Marangaroo last Tuesday morning when the off-leash dogs approached her.
Mato feared for her life as she struggled to escape the dogs’ brute force before a passing Uber driver stopped and ran towards her to help her.
Hours earlier, a woman in her 20s was rushed to Joondalup Health Campus after another attack in the same park.