MIAMI – 5 pet dogs mauled a mail provider for the U.S. Postal Company immediately after her truck broke down alongside a highway in north Florida, officers said.
Putnam County Sheriff’s deputies uncovered the 61-calendar year-previous lady on the ground when they arrived at the scene in Interlachen Lake Estates on Sunday afternoon, sheriff’s officers reported in a Facebook publish. They also identified the dogs inside a fence at a nearby home.
A nearby resident instructed deputies they heard the female screaming for aid and saw five pet dogs attacking her. A number of neighbors experimented with pulling the puppies off the woman and one particular shot a gun into the air to scare the puppies absent, the report reported.
Deputies commenced initially assist on the female, who was seriously bleeding. They utilized tourniquets right up until a rescue unit arrived and took the woman to a medical center, officers reported.
The lady was then flown to a trauma center in Gainesville, the place she was in significant ailment on Monday.
The county’s animal manage device took custody of the pet dogs.
An investigation is continuing.
