MOUNT DORA, Fla. – A man in Mount Dora has to receive two more shots as part of a rabies vaccination series following an attack by two dogs that he suspected were stray.
“The dogs just showed up,” said Bill Shuman, while walking his 8-year-old Chiweenie, Sadie, Tuesday night. “Two of them. I don’t know where they came from.”
Last Wednesday evening, Shuman said he was walking Sadie and one of his and his wife’s other dogs, Didi, on their quiet street. Before he could process what was happening, Shuman said they were surrounded by two medium-sized black dogs.
“I think they were coming for (Sadie), and then I intervened,” Shuman said. “They would bite me, so then I started kicking. You’d kick, but they’d be right back there.”
Shuman said the attack lasted a few minutes. The dogs were able to bite the middle finger on his right hand, as well as an area near Sadie’s back legs. Didi was not harmed.
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“Sadie was just in a corner, shivering,” Lisa Shuman, Bill’s wife, recalled, describing the moments after her husband barreled through their door. “So I picked her up, and she was covered in blood, and his hand was cut, so he was bleeding all over.”
Bill Shuman told News 6 that he did not notice any tags on the dogs. When he and his wife probed neighbors for information, they said no one recognized the description matching the dogs.
News 6 reviewed video appearing to capture the attack. As of Tuesday, it’s unclear whether that video was part of an investigation being conducted by the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Tuesday that its bite investigator was leading the investigation. Mount Dora police responded to the initial report of the attack.
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