BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — A easy job turned traumatic Tuesday when Berkeley County Deputies mentioned {that a} man was attacked within the driveway of his Moncks Corner home.
Cooper mentioned she seen a canine on the finish of their driveway together with a person holding a flashlight and searching for the animal. At first, she mentioned the canine appeared pleasant till it began leaping, growling, and ultimately biting her husband.
“It hurts once I needed to clear my bloody footprints off the ground the subsequent morning,” Dominique Cooper, the spouse of the sufferer, mentioned. “That’s when it hit as a result of I may have been a widow.”
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Cooper mentioned she was traumatized after the canine attack on her husband.
“There’s no method I may out-muscle that canine,” Cooper mentioned. “But the guilt of — I wasn’t nearer. I wasn’t there. I did not shield my husband.”
The couple described standing of their Moncks Corner driveway, checking their automotive when the unthinkable occurred. Scott Cooper mentioned immediately — his life flashed earlier than his eyes when a unfastened canine tried to maul him.
“Of course, I’ve the accidents to my face, however the one puncture wound on my neck was solely millimeters from the carotid artery,” Scott Cooper mentioned.
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Now, the Coopers are spreading consciousness so a tragedy like this does not occur to others.
“You simply must bear in mind and diligent about having your documentation and having your animal beneath your management always,” Dominique Cooper mentioned. “Even once you’re not at home, granted, I perceive issues occur. But you continue to must have your canine beneath your management.”
The canine that bit Scott Cooper is now in possession of Berkeley County Animal Control.
