KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. — A man said two large dogs attacked him and his smaller dog while he was on a walk in West Knox County on Friday. He said he was taking his Goldendoodle on a walk when he saw two dogs following them. The dogs ran after his dog and attacked, he said.
"One grabbed her back leg, one grabbed her neck and just took her to the ground," Adam Slack said. "We never thought something like this could happen to us."
He jumped in and tried to fight the dogs off. Slack said he took his dog's leash and started waving it around, like a lasso.
"I was just spinning it as hard as I could over my head," he said.
The lasso kept the dogs away, he said, but they kept circling them. After around 20 minutes, Slack said he was able to get himself and his dog into a neighbor's garage.
"They would have killed Lucy for sure if I had run," Slack said.
He said he called the Knox County Sheriff's Office, and an animal control officer responded. Slack said the officer took the two dogs with them. After that, Slack said he went into shock.
"I'm not a very emotional person, and it was hard," he said.
He said he went to his doctor to get stitched up. His dog, Lucy, went to the emergency room and got stitches. Slack said she had more than 40 puncture wounds from the attack.
Because of this attack, Slack said he'll start carrying pepper spray around. He said he's not an alarmist but wants people to know this could happen, even though it's rare.