“He wanted to maul me to death,” she said. “He wanted to kill me.”
On Dec. 20 McCoy, 63, was rushed to the hospital after her dog, a American bulldog and pit bull mix, attacked her inside her home as she was attempting to leave to the graves of her son and parents.
“I told him he couldn’t come with Mommy,” she recalled. Standing at her door, the dog jumped on her and began biting her, pulling down on to the couch.
She sat in the living room where she was attacked, describing how he it happened. Wounds and bruises cover the top part of her body, there is a cast on her left wrist, which she says is to help her thumb which was almost torn off in the attack.
She spoke of her attempts to get away from the dog and how she pried open his jaw that was clamped around her neck, before wrapping herself in a blanket as a means of protection.
“I remember thinking this is how I am going to die,” she said.
At first, the thought didn’t bother her, because she would be with her son who died two years ago from cancer. But it was the thought of her 25-year-old grandson that made her get up and call for help.
She called her brother-in-law Larry McCoy for help and he came running over from his home next door. He called police and paramedics to the home.
“Every time I would breathe, blood would just come gushing out he said,” she recalled.
Roughly eight months prior to the attack, she received the dog from a man claiming to know her son. He told her that he and his wife were separating and he could not keep the dog.
He had heard that her pit bull had passed away earlier, so asked her if she would take Brutus.
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| Brutus, the AmBull / Pit mix |
“He was a nice dog,” she said. “He slept with me, went in the car with me.”
Talking about how good of a dog Brutus was made her question exactly why he attacked her in the first place.
“I’m stunned, I’m shocked, I don’t know what to say,” McCoy said.
The dog warden took Brutus to the county pound to be quarantined.
“I’m hurting so badly,” she said when talking about Brutus being in pound.
The more she talked about Brutus’ fate, the more her sympathy for the dog showed. She has to papers, as yet unsigned, to have the dog euthanized.
“That was my baby. I loved him” she said as tears welled up in her eyes. “But he can’t come back, if he’s so vicious he can’t be with people.”
Those tears quickly turned to anger as she talked about hearing that she is not the only person who has been attacked by Brutus.
Earlier this week, she said she learned that he had mauled another person just prior to him being dropped off at her doorstep.
“How could this man have given him to me?” she said. “How evil is this man?”
Those surrounding her have said that she should consider suing the former dog owner, however, she is unsure if she will take that course of action.
Regardless of Brutus’ past, she still can’t help but be sad about having to put the dog to sleep.
“He (Brutus) can’t come back,” she said. “He has to be put to sleep.”
She understands it has to be done, so he cannot be adopted out to any other family.
“What if this would have happened around kids,” she said.
While the dog was more of her grandson’s, who had lived with her, she loved and cared for Brutus. She stated that when he left, the dog began to change a bit.
But talking about what happened and how the dog acted, she just kept repeating her shock at what he had done to her.
APOLOGIST
She will be the first to blame it on the dog, not the breed of the dog.
“It’s not because he was a pit bull,” she said pointing out that she had a pit bull for 14 years and never had a problem with him.
Her physical recovery will be lengthy.
“I have already had one plastic surgery,” she said. She has more surgeries to go through, but said physically she feels a little bit better each day.
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| Brutus, a two-year old pit bull, is stained pink with blood after he viciously attacked his owner Mary McCoy. (MORNING JOURNAL/ANNA NORRIS) |
She has no plans to get another dog anytime soon out of fear of the dog turning on her.
“I’m honestly scared,” she said. “I would always be wondering if this the day he going to go off on me.”
(Morning Journal - December 30, 2011)
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