She says despite multiple injuries, the dog is still out there.
Ashley Edmonson says she was thinking the worst when she was attacked by an acquaintance's pit bull last week.
"I'm not going to live, that's all," Edmondson said.
"It just started grabbing my ankle, then it moved on to my hand," Edmondson said.
The dog, belonging to Quincy resident Jennifer Miller, was removed by the Adams County Sheriff's Office and is now under quarantine through the three-strike rule.
Adams County Sheriff Brent Fischer says under the rule, the dog has to have a history of violence in order to be put down, and that wasn't the case this time.
"It takes two or three bites for it to be in that category, and it still then has to be deemed as vicious after that," Fischer said.
Fisher says Miller was not cited because the attack happened at her residence, and the dog will be returned home after the quarantine.
Miller says things happened much differently than the way Edmondson describes them.
"I wasn't expecting that girl to come all the way from Hannibal and walk in my house," Miller said.
Miller says Edmondson came in the house uninvited while she was sleeping. She says the dog was protecting her.
"He got her on the ankle, that's where he got her," Millers said. "He could have went for the throat, but all he was doing was putting her back outside."
Edmondson suffered injuries to her ankle, leg and thigh, and says she doesn't think the three-strike rule does her justice.
"Seeing how severe the bites are, that's what I think it should be based on is the bites," Edmondson said.
She's asking the sheriff's office to look further into the rule and wants the dog put down.
Miller says next time, Edmondson shouldn't walk into people's houses unannounced.
Edmondson says that won't be a problem.
"There won't be a next time," Edmondson said.
(WGEM - November 3, 2014)
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