A brave aunt has been left with broken bones and gaping wounds after using herself as a 'human blanket' to protect her niece from a vicious dog attack.
Abbie Nudd, 32, had taken Lydia, four, to meet an American Bulldog that her neighbours were looking after on Tuesday, June 2.
But after the initial pleasantries where the hound had been sitting nicely and allowing Ms Nudd and Lydia to stroke it, the canine's mood quickly changed and its demeanor shifted.
Sensing the danger, Ms Nudd, of Dovercourt, asked Lydia to step back from the animal - but it had already locked the the four-year-old's right arm in its mouth.
'Somehow, I managed to prise the dog’s mouth open and get her arm out of the dog’s mouth', Ms Nudd told Echo News.
