A teen has issued a dire warning to Aussies after she was mauled by a Rottweiler that she had known since he was a puppy.
Haylee Owens, 19, was visiting her friend’s home in Noranda in Perth’s north-west on Sunday when the four-year-old dog named Ninja suddenly bit her on the face.
Ms Owens’ friends called an ambulance as her forehead had started profusely bleeding.
The brutal attack left the teen needing plastic surgery and 28 stitches which she says could leave permanent scars.
Despite being friendly with Ninja for years, Ms Owens said the dog launched at her in the blink of an eye while ‘giving him cuddles’.
Despite the terrifying ordeal, she has since returned to see her friend’s dog without incident but admitted her parents were still ‘iffy about the situation’.
Ms Owens urged Aussies to always be weary of dogs, no matter the breed or how well they know them.
‘You never know what’s going through their minds or bodies,’ she told PerthNow.
Perth teenager Haylee Owens has warned Aussies to always be weary around dogs after her friend’s Rottweiler, Ninja (both pictured), attacked her without warning
The teen added that it ‘only takes a second’ for a dog’s demeanour to drastically change.
Her plea comes weeks after two women were attacked by three American staffy dogs in Melbourne within 24 hours.
The dogs knocked an elderly woman Christine, 71, to the ground, biting her face, legs and back and breaking her hip.
Shockingly, the same dogs were still roaming free the next day, when they savagely mauled a young woman pushing her toddler in a pram on their way to school pick-up.
The young mum was saved by Good Samaritans who pulled the dogs off her, but were also injured by the animals on the process.
The three dogs were later euthanised.
Despite knowing the dog since it was a puppy, Ms Owens was left with extensive injuries that required plastic surgery and 28 stitches which could result in permanent scars (pictured)
It comes after two other dogs attacked two women in a park in Perth in broad daylight last week.
Helen Mato was at John Moloney Park in Marangaroo last Tuesday morning, when the off-leash dogs approached her.
Ms Mato feared for her life as she struggled to get away from the brute strength of the dogs before a passing Uber driver pulled over and rushed to her to aid.
Hours earlier, a woman aged in her 20s was rushed to the Joondalup Health Campus following a separate attack at the same park.
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