{"id":122245,"date":"2026-01-14T02:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/122245\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T02:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:52:08","slug":"woman-hospitalized-after-dog-attack-in-oak-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/122245\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman hospitalized after dog attack in Oak Cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Dog-Attack-Fleming-KDFWBCME01_mpg_15.32.32.26.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; A woman was left hospitalized after a dog attack last week in Oak Cliff.<\/p>\n<p>   A serious injury <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">On the morning of Jan. 7, Toni Hudson\u2019s life changed forever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;I&#8217;m different. Now, you know, my face is different, my walk is different, the way I move is different,&#8221; Hudson said. &#8220;My kids and them try to cheer them up, but they see me, and they just cry. You know what? I mean? It&#8217;s hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Hudson said she was walking down Marfa Avenue when a neighbor\u2019s pit bill\u00a0attacked her.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;The dog was already trying to chase somebody else, and it turned around, and it grabbed my leg and it shook me down,&#8221; Hudson continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s when it bit my face, as you can see. It was almost to my neck, but I threw my hand up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">She said the attack lasted for about 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Help finally came when someone in a truck saw what was happening and started honking,\u00a0alerting the dog\u2019s owner, who Hudson said was in his yard.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;As he&#8217;s trying to get the dog off of me, the dog is biting me harder, and when he hit the dog in the head, you know he&#8217;s gonna attack. And that&#8217;s when my finger, it snapped my finger all the way through and through,&#8221; Hudson said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">And it was at that moment that Hudson was able to escape.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dogattack.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  Road to recovery <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Hudson is still in the hospital facing a long recovery.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Dallas police confirmed they responded to the attack and Dallas Animal Services took possession of the dog.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Hudson wants something to happen, afraid of what could happen if the dog attacks again.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;There are kids who live across the street from this dog. What if one of them babies was in the street? They wouldn&#8217;t have made it,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Hudson is trying to raise money to help support her recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story came from an interview with Toni Hudson.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\/oak-cliff\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oak Cliff<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS &#8211; A woman was left hospitalized after a dog attack last week in Oak Cliff. 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