Dog attack: Girl, 6, ‘lucky to be alive’ after being mauled by German Shepherd outside her house

A six-year-old girl is “lucky to be alive” after being mauled by a dog during a horror attack - which only stopped when her mum’s screams scared the animal away. Little Angel-Mae Dawson has been left unable to walk properly after she was viciously savaged by a German Shephard outside her home in Meir, Stoke-on-Trent.

The youngster had been playing with her brother Jamie, eight, and her cousins in the street when the two-year-old pet, called Shadow, pounced at 7pm on Saturday (June 10). The dog, which belonged to a neighbour, escaped from its garden and sunk its teeth into the schoolgirl’s back and legs before “shaking her around”.