Woman mauled by ‘pocket bully' which ‘sunk its teeth into her leg' leaving her ‘traumatised'
DOG HORROR Woman mauled by 'pocket bully' which 'sunk its teeth into her leg' leaving her 'traumatised'
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A WOMAN has told how she was left traumatised after being mauled by an "pocket bully" in a savage attack.
Gina Evans, from Bournemouth, was bitten on her left calf by the dog on July 1.
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A woman was mauled by an "pocket bully" that sunk its teeth into her leg
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Gina Evans has been left traumatised by the incident
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Gina's dog also suffered three puncture wounds in the savage attack
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Gina was rushed to hospital after the attack where she stayed for four days and required 22 stitches in her injured leg.
Since then, she says her life has been "absolute hell".
Her own dog was also left with three puncture wounds despite her frantic attempts to protect it.
The "pocket bully" attacked after Gina returned to her home after walking the dog that afternoon.
'I put my dog behind me to stop her from getting hurt and he just sunk his teeth into my leg,' she said.
Gina has been left traumatised by the incident and has been "stuck between four walls" since, adding she's been thinking about moving house as a result.
On one visit to the vet, she recalls how a dog of the same breed was in there at the same time.
"It was muzzled and oh my god, I was sweating," she said.
Upon her return from hospital, she found the dog hadn't been put down after attacking her.
Instead, she discovered it had been sold to another family with two children.
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This is despite Gina having had run-ins with the same dog on previous occasions too.
The daylight mauling last month marked the fourth time it had tried to attack Gina and her dog.
On one such occasion she was forced to throw her pet over a nearby wall to stop it being attacked.
A spokesperson for Dorset Police said: "At around 4.20pm on Tuesday July 1 2025, we received a report from the ambulance service that the victim – a local woman aged in her 50s – had been bitten by a dog in Campbell Road in Bournemouth, sustaining a serious leg injury.
"She attended hospital for treatment to her injury.
"Officers have directly spoken to the dog owner and enquiries are ongoing.
"The victim has been updated with developments of the investigation.
"We would advise members of the public to continue to report incidents of this nature to us so we can investigate further and take appropriate action."
This follows a spate of dangerous dog attacks in recent weeks.
Just last week, a victim of a suspected XL Bully attack was forced to climb over a fence and leap into a river to escape the crazed dog.
It left the man hospitalised with police now appealing for information to track down the owner.
That same week a seven-year-old boy was left with serious injuries after he was mauled by a dangerously out-of-control XL Bully too.
He was savaged by his own family dog in the kitchen of his home suffering serious injuries.
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