Quick-thinking neighbors in North Carolina help save man from dog attack
By Penelope Lopez
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FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina (WTVD) — Brendan Webster, a U.S. Army Department of Defense engineer, remains hospitalized after he and his dog were attacked by two Rottweilers in his Fayetteville neighborhood.
He said quick-thinking neighbors likely saved his life.
Webster is recovering at Womack Army Medical Center from injuries he suffered in Wednesday morning’s attack.
“After looking at the damage done to my leg, I just got lucky. We got away with just that,” Webster said, becoming emotional. “It could have been so much worse about those two neighbors there.”
The other dogs had him pinned down, and they’re biting them. And so I kind of jumped on my dog and embraced him and was punching the dogs off him again. – Brendan Webster Webster said the attack happened while he was walking his 2-year-old German shepherd, Luke.
“I was walking my purebred good boy Luke up the street, and in the distance, I see two Rottweilers, and kind of a little alarming,” Webster said. “So me and Luke go ahead and cross the street well ahead of time, you know, stay out of danger.”
Within seconds, he said, the dogs charged.
“The other dogs had him pinned down, and they’re biting them,” Webster said of his dog. “And so I kind of jumped on my dog and embraced him and was punching the dogs off him again.”
Webster suffered multiple puncture wounds and severe damage to his leg. The injuries have temporarily left him in a wheelchair.
“I have a couple of a lot of puncture wounds, and then they tore my flesh and turned it inside out,” he said. “So I have to some staples in my calf right now where everything was pulled and pulled out.”
Dash camera video captured neighbors rushing to help as the attack unfolded.
Sgt. 1st Class Phillip Hubbard said he was driving his children to school when he saw Webster bleeding in the street.
“I can definitely see there were some puncture wounds on his leg, blood down his lower leg,” Hubbard said.
Hubbard, who has 17 years of military experience, said he turned his vehicle around and used his uniform belt to restrain one of the dogs.
“I made a little noose out of it, and then Dog’s head went in and set it up, and then I just held the dog out like that for, you know, half hour, 45 minutes,” he said.
Webster said he was grateful for the neighbors who intervened.
“Thank you. There’s, I couldn’t have done anything except sit there and, and take the beating we were getting. Crawled up in a little ball with my dog,” he said, his voice breaking. “So there’s nothing I could have done without them.”
Luke also received stitches and is recovering, Webster said. The two are hoping to be reunited soon.
Authorities said one of the Rottweilers has been returned to its owner, while the other remains with animal control.
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