Alabama teen punches dog to save 9-year-old girl from mauling

An Alabama teen rescued a 9-year-old miss who was mauled by a canine successful Cullman County connected Nov. 7.

Delyla McCay was saved by a teen who rushed to assistance erstwhile a bluish heeler latched onto her look and wouldn’t fto go.

Delyla was sitting connected the beforehand steps of her flat gathering with her 13-year-old sister, McKenzie. That’s erstwhile the canine lunged astatine the 9-year-old and clamped onto her face.

"Mommy, it grabbed my look and it was conscionable shaking," Delyla told her mother, Katie McCay, according to WBRC.

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Delyla McCay, 9, was attacked by a bluish heeler portion sitting connected her flat steps earlier a teen intervened. (Facebook/ Katie Joy; GoFundMe)

"I’ve ne'er dealt with thing similar that successful my beingness and I conscionable wouldn’t privation it connected anybody," the girl's parent said, according to the outlet. "And she’s the sweetest kid successful the full world. Anybody that knows my child, 'cause there’s a batch of radical that ask, ‘What was she doing to the dog? Was it provoked?’ My kid was conscionable sitting there. She’s truthful sweet."

Delyla's sister screamed successful fearfulness arsenic the canine had the child's look successful its vise.

A adjacent teen rushed successful and punched the canine until it fto go. McCay said the teen was besides bitten successful the process. 

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An Alabama teen is being hailed a leader aft rescuing a 9-year-old miss mauled by a canine successful Cullman County. (Facebook/ Katie Joy)

The bluish heeler lunged again and attacked the child’s back, according to the New York Post.

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Delyla McCay suffered terrible facial and backmost injuries and was airlifted to Children’s Hospital for surgery. (GoFundMe )

The kid sustained terrible injuries to the look and backmost and volition necessitate integrative country and rabies shots to retrieve fully.

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The canine has been enactment down, according to Cullman County Animal Control.