Date: December, 2007
Location: UK
Victim: adult female, kennel worker
Breed: Rottweiler
Severity: Severe (one arm amputated)
Circumstances:
Dog regularly abandoned by owner, apparently. Kennel worker was taking
dog out for exercise when it turned on her. Dog was euthanized.
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/7146753.stm![]()
Surgery
to save the right arm of a kennel worker whose left arm was amputated
after she was mauled by a rottweiler has been successful. Mandy
Peynado's arms were savaged as she tried to protect her throat when the
dog attacked her at Knightwood Kennels near Salisbury, Wiltshire. Claire Gourley, Mandy's sister, said: "Her spirits are fairly good and the doctors are saying she is a miracle." Ms Peynado, 47, is due to go back into theatre on Monday for more surgery. During Saturday's operation, surgeons took muscle from her back and used it as a skin graft to preserve her right arm. Dog destroyed Doctors are still unsure whether they can save what remains of the top of left arm. Ms Peynado had worked at the kennels for three years before the attack. The
dog had been picked up as a stray by New Forest District Council six
weeks earlier and had not shown any signs of aggression. The kennel's owner Judith Wykeham said it would have been treated differently is she had known it had a troubled background. "Apparently there was a history with the owner who abandoned the dog and the police are investigating," she said. The dog was later destroyed by Wiltshire Police.
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