Mum Nearly Dies After Crazed Dog Tries To Rip Out Her Throat

A mum-of-six was left terrified to leave her own home after a crazed dog launched a vicious attack that nearly killed her.

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Suzanne Crofts suffered a gaping wound on her neck after the dog, a cross between a pit bull and a Staffordshire bull terrier, tried to rip out her throat.

The bite was just millimetres away from one of her main arteries meaning she only narrowly avoided death.

Miss Crofts, 41, was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery after the incident and she now says she is too scared to leave her Nottingham home.

Vicious: The dog left Miss Crofts with a gaping wound on her neck (SWNS)

Describing the moment of the attack, she said: “The dog was lovely so I gave him a couple of strokes on the head and then when I turned away he bit me in my neck.

“He ripped my neck and the bite was one millimetre from my jugular vein.”

Miss Crofts, who has her own dog named Tilly, was discovered covered in blood by her daughter Jaimie-Lee.

Millimetres from death: The bite just missed a major artery (SWNS)

Jaimie-Lee told the Nottingham Post: "I just froze. Someone told me that a dog had bitten her throat and I could see all the blood.

“It was sickening and I couldn’t even look at it for about five minutes but in the end we managed to get her in a friend’s car to take her to hospital.”

An unnamed eyewitness added: “I heard screaming so went to try and help Suzanne, and as I got closer I could see that the dog had a grip on her neck.

Traumatised: Miss Crofts says she is now too scared to leave her own home (SWNS)

“She was screaming and I was pulling the dog trying to get it off her but it was locked onto her neck.”

The dog has now been seized by police and a 36-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assault after the incident.

He has since been bailed while enquiries are ongoing.

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