THE parents of an eight-year-old Scottish girl who was mauled by two American bulldogs have revealed she is suffering from flashbacks about the attack.
Broagan McCuaig was playing with friends in Garthamlock, Glasgow, on Friday evening when she was attacked by the dogs.
She suffered serious facial wounds and has had surgery on her face and leg at Yorkhill Sick Kids Hospital in Glasgow.
Her parents Tracy Cox and Neil McCuaig, who have been at their daughter's bedside, said she was terrified and kept asking if "the dogs are away".
The dogs have been seized by police.
A man, aged 34, and a 33-year-old woman have been charged with offences under the Dangerous Dogs Act.
Ms Cox said: "She was playing with her friends when the next minute she was screaming and banging at the door.
"I could see at the back window these two big animals were pulling her from one to the other."
She said she saw some men trying to get the dogs off her daughter, then "blacked out".
She added: "I just froze. It was the worst day of my life. It's horrible to think one minute she's shouting and the next she's screaming 'help me'. That's all I can remember."
"I thought it was going to be bad but she's pulling through.
"She's getting flashbacks. It's all coming back to her so she's getting frightened now."
The couple only moved to the flat a month ago.
Ms Cox said: "She doesn't want to go back to that house. There are too many bad memories. She'll never be able to go out the back again because that's where it happened."
Mr McCuaig claimed the dogs had pounced on him in a previous incident but the owner had stopped them.
He said: "Nothing came of it but I wish it did now as they probably wouldn't be there when this happened to her.
"It has had a terrifying impact. She keeps saying 'are the dogs away?'."
Ms Cox said she believed that American bulldogs should not be kept in flats as they are too large and that farms would would provide a more suitable home.
She added: "Those dogs are enormous. I'm really angry. Those dogs are for farms.
"They shouldn't be in a wee block of flats. There should be licences for these dogs.
"It could've been a lot worse. I could have been sitting in a different place now."
Ms Cox said Broagan was a typical child who enjoyed playing with her friends, adding: "She's out playing, cheeky, good one minute, bad the next. But she's popular and has a lot of friends. She's a good lassie.
"I'm really proud of her. She's so brave."
She said the dogs' owner would have to live with what had happened.
Ms Cox added: "I would understand how she's feeling because if it was the opposite way I'd be devastated that my animal did that."
The attack is the latest in a series of such incidents.
In July this year, a four-year-old girl was attacked by a Labrador crossbreed on Irvine beach in Ayrshire.
Sophia Bell's family reportedly criticised police over their lack of action against the dog or its owner. The child surgeons needed operations on her arm at Yorkhill Sick Kids Hospital.
In August 2010, a girl aged ten was dragged from her bicycle and mauled as she lay on the ground in Dundee.
Derek Adam, 40, was jailed for 12 months after being convicted under the Dangerous Dogs Act of failing to control his two dogs.
In August, a reportedly stray Staffordshire Bull Terrier left Amy Adams, 13, requiring plastic surgery following an incident at a park in Arbroath, Angus.
In the wake of the incident, MSP Jenny Marra said she would raise with ministers how effective the Dangerous Dogs Act is.
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