Woman worried she'll need rabies shots after dog bite at St. Cloud restaurant

FLORIDA -- An Osceola County woman bitten by a dog while eating at a St. Cloud restaurant turned to Channel 9 in hopes of finding the dog's owner.

Without proof the dog had its shots, Kathleen Kramer could be on the hook for hundreds of dollars more in medical bills.

Kramer was at Crabby Bill's seafood restaurant, which is dog-friendly, when the attack happened Sunday.

"I looked over and seen two dogs and thought, let me go over and say hi," she said. "I started to walk over and the next thing I know the dog lunged at me and bit me."

The dog bit through Kramer's jeans and left her with a wound almost 2 inches long.

"Did you aggravate the dog?" asked Channel 9's Jorge Estevez.

"I was just walking up," said Kramer. "I didn't even reach for it or nothing. I was just walking."

Kramer went home with an ice pack for her injuries but realized the injury was more serious the next day when she went to her sister's house.

 

"It was horrifying," said Kramer's sister, Melissa Walsh. "When I saw it, I was like, 'What the ... you need to go to the hospital now.'"

Kramer went to the hospital for medical attention, but she needs to find proof the dog has had all its shots. If not, her medical bills could skyrocket.

"If I don't know that, I'm going to have to go through a series of rabies shots," she said.

(WFTV Orlando - Jan 15, 2015)