Liza Vannoy was walking into her home on Lookout Mountain last October when she heard her son scream.
She rushed to the field, where 12-year-old Camp was tending to their goats. She found a neighbor’s dog, a pit bull mix, digging his teeth into the back of her son’s leg. She pulled him off, she said, and as Camp climbed the fence, the dog bit down on her arm.
Vannoy yelled for help and tried to climb a wooden structure on her property. The dog yanked her back to the ground, she said.
“The power of his jaws were too great,” she said.
She tried again, with a burst. Vannoy managed to free herself of the dog and climb. High enough for safety, she took stock of herself. Ten different wounds, she said. All of them painful. The dog’s teeth dug into an artery.