Louisiana woman is partially eaten by her neighbor’s dogs

An elderly Louisiana woman was partially eaten by her neighbor’s dogs after she fell in the driveway. 

The unidentified woman was walking down on her driveway on Randall Avenue in Livingston Parish on Tuesday when she fell, neighbor Randall Averette told WBRZ.

While she was trying to get back up, her neighbor’s dogs attacked her, he said. 

‘When I went over there, she was laying on the ground, paramedics bandaging her up,’ Averette recounted, describing her injuries as ‘graphic.’

‘The paramedics said she was torn up pretty good around her calf, her right leg was bit, her arm was bit and the dog bit her on the back of her neck.’

Another neighbor also said she witnessed the dogs attack, and called 911 as soon as she saw the woman on the ground.

‘She had to stand there and watch it,’ said the neighbor’s daughter, Cheryl Boudreaux. ‘She was like, “Y’all need to hurry up and get here. Hurry up and get here. They are eating this woman.”‘

‘Then, Mama said the lady wasn’t moving and Mama thought she was dead.’

The woman was instead brought to a local hospital. Her condition remains unclear. 

Meanwhile, Maria Vincent has been arrested and charged with negligent injuring and dogs not to run at large for her pets’ actions.

‘You can be charged with negligent injuring and you can be sued by these homeowners for medical bills,’ Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard warned other dog owners. 

‘It’s going to come back to bite you, that’s what’s going to happen.’ 

But Ard noted this was not the first time Vincent’s dogs attacked a person, saying she had been cited before for a past incident in which one of the canines bit a person.

Unfortunately, in that case, investigators were unable to determine which dog was involved. 

‘She’s been through the system already, she’s been fined,’ Ard said of the dog owner. ‘Here we are again, same dog, same situation.

‘Now someone’s seriously hurt, something has got to change.’ 

Bourdeaux also claimed her mom has been bitten twice by the same dogs, but was afraid to speak up.

‘My mom is 85 years old, both times she required medical attention,’ the worried daughter said.

 She argued that it was not right that multiple people had to get injured for something to change.

‘We’re just furious, you know, because we don’t understand why it had to get to this,’ she told the news station. 

‘They finally took the dogs away, that’s the first time.’

Ard also confirmed that all three dogs were taken to Livingston Parish Animal Control Center on Wednesday, saying the owner surrendered two of them.

The fate of the surrendered dogs remains unclear. 

But Ard said people should protect themselves when they come face-to-face with a dangerous dog.

‘You do whatever you think is necessary,’ Ard suggested. ‘You have a right to protect you, your property, your kids.’