An elderly Louisiana woman was partially eaten by her neighbor’s dogs after falling in her driveway.
The unidentified woman was walking down her driveway on Randall Avenue in Livingston Parish on Tuesday when she fell, neighbor Randall Averette. he told WBRZ.
As she tried to get up, her neighbor’s dogs attacked her, she said.
“When I went there, she was lying on the ground, while the paramedics were bandaging her,” Averette said, describing her injuries as “graphic.”
“The paramedics said she was pretty badly mangled around her calf, her right leg was bitten, her arm was bitten and the dog bit her on the back of the head.”
A Louisiana woman was seriously injured after being attacked by her neighbor’s dogs on Tuesday.
The unidentified woman was walking down her driveway on Randall Avenue in Livingston Parish on Tuesday when she fell.
Another neighbor also said she witnessed the dogs attack and called 911 as soon as she saw the woman on the ground.
“He had to stand there and watch it,” said the neighbor’s daughter, Cheryl Boudreaux. “She told me, ‘You have to hurry up and get here. Hurry up and get here. “They are eating this woman.”
“Then mom said the lady wasn’t moving and mom thought she was dead.”
Instead, the woman was taken to a local hospital. His condition remains unclear.
Meanwhile, Maria Vincent has been arrested and charged with negligent injury and not allowing dogs to run loose for the actions of her pets.
“You can be accused of negligent injuries and these owners can sue you for medical bills,” Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard warned other dog owners.
“It’s going to come back to haunt you, that’s what’s going to happen.”
Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard warned that irresponsible dog owners can be charged with negligent injury
But Ard noted that this was not the first time Vincent’s dogs attacked a person, saying she had been cited before for a past incident in which one of the canines bit a person.
Unfortunately, in that case, investigators were unable to determine which dog was involved.
“She’s already gone through the system and they fined her,” Ard said of the dog’s owner. ‘Here we are again, the same dog, the same situation.
“Now that someone is seriously injured, something has to change.”
Bourdeaux also claimed that his mother had been bitten twice by the same dogs, but was afraid to speak.
“My mother is 85 years old, both times she required medical attention,” said the worried daughter.
Maria Vincent’s three dogs were taken to Livingston Parish Animal Control on Wednesday.
She argued that it wasn’t right that multiple people had to be injured for something to change.
“We’re just furious, you know, because we don’t understand why it had to come to this,” he told the news station.
“They finally took the dogs, it’s the first time.”
Ard also confirmed that the three dogs were taken to Livingston Parish Animal Control on Wednesday and said the owner surrendered two of them.
The fate of the surrendered dogs is still unclear.
But Ard said people should protect themselves when they come face to face with a dangerous dog.
“Do what you think is necessary,” Ard suggested. “You have the right to protect yourself, your property and your children.”
