A MUM-to-be has opened up about the time her nose was ripped off after a bulldog-cross attacked her as she went to pat it.
Rebecca Scobie, 24, works as a carer and was just minutes into meeting a new patient at home when the horror unfolded.
As she spoke to the woman, Rebecca put her hand out to stroke a dog that had leapt up on the couch.
Without warning the hound pounced at her face, tearing off the rip of her nose and sending blood pouring into her hands.
The Scottish woman, who is expecting a baby boy in coming months, was raced to hospital and has since had to have surgery to reconstruct her nose.
She later discovered the dog was known to be “unpredictable and aggressive” – but she was never warned ahead of the visit.
Rebecca has now shared the trauma she’s endured, and how she’s now wary of her own dogs.
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