Carol Wycherley, 42, said was walking her Jack Russell-cross Casey along Prescot Road, Fairfield, when a Staffordshire bull terrier-type turned on them.
She said: “We were just minding our own business and the next thing this dog dived on Casey and started biting him.
“I got in between them and put my hand on her neck to stop it biting him and it started biting my hands. I think if I hadn’t done that it would have ripped her neck out.
“I can’t remember exactly what happened because it was all a bit of a blur. But I ended up on the floor and there was blood everywhere.”
Carol, who lives on nearby Lilley Road, was taken to hospital for treatment to cuts to her hand.
She said: “I didn’t actually feel any pain until I got to hospital and then it was awful.”
She has had to pay more than £1,000 in vet bills for three-year-old Casey.
She added: “The vet said the wounds were some of the worst he had ever seen and Casey probably would have died if I hadn’t stepped in.”
Police were called to the scene but initially Carol wasn’t sure how her injuries had been caused.
She said: “The police asked me if my dog had bit me and at first I just said yes, I didn’t really know what had happened.
“But then when I was having the dressings on my hands changed a few days later I noticed that you can see little bite marks on one side of my hand which must be Casey’s, and big bite marks on the other that must have been from the other dog.”
She added: “I think there should be some kind of laws to stop things like this happening.
“I’m just worried it might happen to someone else now.”
A spokesman for Merseyside Police said: “Officers had been called to Prescot Road in the L6 area at around 9pm on Thursday, June 27, to a report of two dogs fighting in the street.
“The owners – a man and a woman – tried to separate them and during this, the woman received a dog bite to her hand. Statements were taken and based on the information given, officers decided that no criminal offences had been committed and explained this to both dog owners.
“Due to a fresh allegation made by one of the owners this weekend, arrangements have been made to take a new statement from the injured woman and further enquiries are now being made.”
(Liverpool Echo - July 3, 2013)
