A University of Dallas college student that does dog sitting on the side was devastatingly mauled by two dogs which left her holding onto her life and with permanent damage to her face.

Jacqueline Durand, 22, was attacked by Lucy, a German Shepard mix, and Bender, a boxer and Pitbull mix on Dec. 23. 2021. The two dogs pinned her down and ripped off her nose, ears, lips and cheeks to the bone. The dogs also ripped off her clothes and left “puncture wounds all over her body.”

"I thought I was going to die," she told CBS News in a recent interview.

The two dogs are owned by Justin and Ashley Bishop from Coppell, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. The couple hired Durand to watch their dogs while they were away. She met the dogs one time before while the Bishops were home and says they came across as “lovely dogs” then.

Although immediately after Durand opened the door to the house to dog-sit alone, the dogs dragged her from the front door to the living room and mauled her, leaving her with permanent and life-threatening injuries.

"The owner assured Jacqueline that the dogs would be crated," her attorney Chip Brooker said in a statement. "But, shortly before her first visit, the owner texted Jacqueline to tell her that she failed to crate the dogs before leaving town. A sign on the front door read 'Crazy Dogs. Please Don't Knock or Ring the Bell. Call or Text Instead.”

Brooker says that the sign warning of “crazy dogs” is the first sign of negligence.

"The warning on the front door to me, I think, suggests that the Bishops knew that both of these dogs had acted aggressively to people arriving at the front door," Brooker told CBS News.

Brooker added that an expert did an examination of the dogs after the attack that showed "that the dogs were dangerous and had vicious propensities." The Bishops said that they got the dogs from rescue organizations and never had problems before.

When the dogs rushed to attack Durand, the door was left open behind her which triggered the security alarm and alerted police to show up, although police and first responders did not rescue Durand until 37 minutes had gone by.

The Coppell Police Department told CBS News when asked why they didn’t just shoot the dogs and enter earlier was because they "were only able to see Jacqueline Durand's legs and were not immediately aware of the extent of her injuries" as they tried to contain the dogs.”

By the time Durand was rescued, she had lost 30% of her blood and was struggling for her life. She had to be resuscitated multiple times, was put in a medically induced coma for a week and spent several weeks hospitalized, her mother, Shirley Durand told CBS news.

Doctors had to graft skin from her buttocks and forehead to rebuild her face. During the recent interview, Durand told CBS News that she does not want to be seen as “a victim but as an example.” She insisted on showing the aftermath of her face.

"I want dog owners to know their animals and be able to communicate with their sitters how they are," Durand said.

"Honestly, I'm speechless. After every meet and greet I had, I always felt the same with those other dogs and they don't change their attitude from the time that I met them to the time that I go there for the first time," she added.