Dogs, Including Pit Bull, Attack Two Women, Bite Paramedic Also

Two women and an emergency service (EMS) worker were bitten by a pit bull Monday in the Wake County neighborhood, North Carolina, animal control officials said.

One of the women was trying to get into her car when the dog bit her. After attacking the women, the canine bit one of the paramedics who responded to the scene. All three victims suffered non-threatening injuries.

Lauren Stitt, one of the victims, said her neighbor had warned her about two loose dogs in the area – a pit bull and a small brown dog. "My neighbor started yelling, 'Hey, be careful there’s dogs running around I got attacked.' She said she had called 911," Stitt told CBS17.

However, before she had time to react, she was attacked by the two dogs. "I feel like it was the little dog that went after me first and then the bigger dog came afterward," she recalled. "I had my 20-month-old son in my hand at the time and I just froze. I knew I couldn’t run so I just held him up higher."

Stitt was rushed to a nearby hospital. Her leg was swollen from the bite.

The pit bull's owners said they were having some work done on their property and had accidentally left a gate open when their 2-year-old pet pit bull got out of a fenced area and ran into the neighborhood. They added the dog received all required shots and they never had to face any problems with it prior to the recent incident.

Stitt said the dog owners were kind and had taken time to visit the victims in the hospital. "They checked on us when it happened and they came back later to check on me and they wanted to check on the other woman, but she went to E.R. [emergency room]," she said.

The pit bull will remain quarantined for 10 days. It was not clear what happened to the other dog or its owner.

Last week, a Massachusetts woman was attacked by six pit bulls while trying to save her dog from one of them. Rochelle Silva, 51, was taken to a nearby hospital with critical injuries after a police officer found her being chased by half a dozen dogs in Taunton. The victim later told authorities that she was walking her dog, Ace, when one of the pit bulls escaped from a house and started attacking her pet. When she tried to rescue her dog, five other pit bulls got out and attacked her.

“All six were on me. If there were six of them, then all six were on me. All six of them were biting at me. Bites all over my body. I’ve got a bite on my face. I’ve got bites on my arms. I’ve got a big chunk out of my right leg, behind my knee cap, that went right to the bone,” she said. "I thought I was going to die. The chunks that were coming out of my body, I could feel them.”