A woman attacked by a dog as she queued to get ice cream in her local park said there was 'blood everywhere'.
Jucena Ali had been waiting outside a busy café Cwmdonkin Park, Swansea, with her "emotional support" puppy Reggie when she noticed a long-haired border collie approaching her.
The 27-year-old said on Saturday there were a lot of dogs and children in the park, so she thought little of it but moved her own dog to the other side of her.
She said the dog had a lead but no one holding it and as soon as she moved her own pup its hackles went up.
It was then her day took a shocking turn and she said the collie bit her once on the arm before biting her a second time and shaking its head slightly from side-to-side whilst her arm was in its mouth.
Wales Online reported Jucena said: "Because I screamed in pain, I think that's when the owner decided to take the dog off me.
“The owner's used to it because of the amount of times that dog has come up to me and my dog to try and attack him,” she claimed.
She continued: "I felt something warm trickling down my arm so I lifted up my sleeve and there was blood squirting everywhere.”
Jucena had two bite marks on her arm, one was small but the second was "not wide but very deep" and caused her sharp pain.
"The fatty tissue of where it bit me was hanging out and it was gross," she added.
A nearby woman grabbed Jucena's arm and applied pressure to it to try and stop the bleeding.
"There was blood dripping down my arms and down my fingers and my poor dog was covered in my own blood," she explained.
Jucena, who experiences anxiety, then started hyperventilating from the "sheer shock" of the incident but was supported by kind strangers who gathered around her.
"I'm so grateful for the lovely community here. The amount of people who came to aid me, I was so touched by how loving this community is.
“I've felt like an outsider because I've had quite a few racial slurs since moving to Swansea but the way they made me feel was so amazing," she said.
Jucena said witnesses confronted the owner of the dog who had attacked her, but things went from bad to worse when the owner began to swear at them.
Jucena explained that she didn’t blame the dog and said it could’ve been much worse if a child had been bitten.
Following the attack, Jucena said she felt sick and dizzy and a server at the café bandaged her arm up for her.
Not wanting to leave her dog alone while she went to the hospital, she went home first before calling 111.
Jucena then got a taxi to the Minor Injuries Unit in Neath Port Talbot on Saturday evening and was then referred to Morriston Hospital.
She went home to look after Reggie overnight and then visited the hospital the following morning.
Her anxiety worsened during her time in hospital, leading to her fainting and doctors keeping her in for over six hours on Sunday.
After another check up she was told there was no infection but the attack left a lasting impact on her.
She said: "I'm really scared to go to Cwmdonkin now and I'm currently really scared of any dogs coming up to me or my pup. I don't want people to say all dogs should be on leads. You just need to be closer to your dog and pay more attention to its body language."
