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Woman mauled to death playing with her dogs who started 'eating her alive'


A woman has been mauled to death play-wrestling with her dogs in her front yard when they suddenly turned on her.

Nancy Cherryl Burgess-Dismuke, 52, was playing with her dogs in her South Carolina front yard about 1pm Thursday, as she usually did, when the animals became aggressive and began biting her.

Nancy Cherryl Burgess-Dismuke, 52, was mauled to death play-wrestling with her dogs in her front yard when they turned on her. Source: Facebook
Nancy Cherryl Burgess-Dismuke, 52, was mauled to death play-wrestling with her dogs in her front yard when they turned on her. Source: Facebook

Two neighbours came to help, striking the dogs with a blunt axe and a car part to give the woman a chance to escape, but she had already suffered severe injuries in the mauling, The Greenville News reported.

Another neighbour Amber Greer called emergency services when she noticed the dogs biting at their owner’s flesh, police said.

The dog owner was playing with the two boxer crosses in her South Carolina front yard when the animals became aggressive. Source: NBC12
The dog owner was playing with the two boxer crosses in her South Carolina front yard when the animals became aggressive. Source: NBC12

“It went from looking like they were really playing to them really eating her alive,” Ms Greer told the news outlet.

“When they finally got the dogs off of her, and finally got them to go, she threw her body over the fence.”

The owner sustained “severe bite wounds” on both arms but was “alert” and “talking” with paramedics who arrived at the scene, but she went into cardiac arrest at the hospital, The Washington Post reported.

A neighbour called emergency services when she noticed the dogs biting at their owner’s flesh. Source: NBC12
A neighbour called emergency services when she noticed the dogs biting at their owner’s flesh. Source: NBC12

The Greenville County Coroner’s Office said the woman died at the hospital about nine hours after she was attacked.

It is unclear why the dogs turned on their owner.

The dogs both appeared to be boxer crosses and were secured by animal control, Greenville County Sheriff’s spokesman Lieutenant Ryan Flood said in a statement.

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