Mum forced to prise her child from dog's jaws as pair were attacked after Aldi trip

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savagely attacked by a dog that saw the despairing mum desperately yank her child out of the dog’s jaws.Out shopping at Gallagher Retail Park in Coventry, Vicky Rafferty and her daughter Evie-Louise Mannion had been to Aldi and Pets at Home when the terrifying attack took place.35-year-old Vicky has now spoken about how they were walking along minding their own business when the German shepherd launched at them."We were between Aldi and Pets at Home at the Gallagher Retail Park on Monday, between 4.30pm and 5pm.

We were walking along and it literally just attacked my daughter Evie-Louise. "It pulled her to the floor. Luckily she pulled her hands up to her face but she got bites to her arms - it’s a mess,” she told Coventry Live . "It grabbed her by her foot and pulled her to the ground and carried on biting her from her shoulder to just past her elbow.

The dog just wasn’t letting go."Caught in a desperate scramble along with the dog’s female owner to get the dog off her daughter, Vicky said that her only concern was her daughter’s safety.Vicky was forced to resort to extreme violence to save her little girl. "I had to boot it in the face four times and that’s when it attacked me”."I was pulling my daughter by her legs, anything to get her away from that dog."It was a six-year-old German shepherd.

The owner was trying to pull it back by the harness but had no chance."Vicky said she was told by the owner of the dog that it had been taken to Pets at Home to get a muzzle fitted.