A dog owner has been jailed after his rottweilers attacked a pensioner, leading to him losing an arm and leg.
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00:00started about ten past nine, I normally, as normal, took the dog out for a walk.
00:06Went up the road and there's a great big tree, it's about, I was about a meter
00:13you away from that and I heard this rustling noise and I thought, what's that?
00:17Rustling noise. And all of a sudden these two dogs come round.
00:22Block wilders. And I thought, oh God. Because we come face to face, there's nowhere to go.
00:28I remembered them attacking me but I don't remember going over and I don't
00:37know, I might have hit my head, knocked myself out. I don't know. I have been told
00:43that I was dragged a little way along. I don't remember no more until I woke up
00:50in Brighton Hospital. That was a few weeks later. I mean, there's so many people
00:56I've been told come to my aid. I can't thank everybody enough really for what they've
01:01done. You know, especially the man I'm going to meet, which I've never met before.
01:06I'm looking forward to meeting him.
01:08Nice to meet you at last.
01:10And you.
01:12Oh, no.
01:13No, I mean that.
01:14No.
01:16I've just done what anyone else would have done.
01:18No, but you were there first, wasn't you?
01:20Yes, yes.
01:21You was, yeah. And apparently you were the man.
01:23Thank you very much.
01:25We'd all appreciate it.
01:27Like I said, I just did what anybody else would have done.
01:30I'll take you for a few beers.
01:32Any time, you know what I mean.
01:34She was looking at me and she was shaking, you know. And this was the first time I saw her.
01:41And I thought, what's she doing here?
01:43The thing is, she didn't run away.
01:45No, no.
01:46She didn't run away.
01:47She was up, well, by my wall.
01:50Obviously I must have let her go at some point, but I don't remember.
01:54I'm glad she's not injured anyway.
01:56Yeah.
01:57Lovely dog she is.
01:58But that was the second thing you said to me was, you know, how's my dog?
02:02And I said, she's fine. She's in the silver car.
02:05You're a very, very, very strong man to come through that.
02:09And hats off to you.
02:11And I'm just pleased.
02:13And I'm pleased.
02:15And thank you again.
02:17You are very welcome, sir.
02:20I lost my middle...
02:21They tried to save my finger on my left hand, but they couldn't.
02:26So I had to lose that.
02:28And this arm is badly damaged.
02:32They saved that, as you can see with the skin graft.
02:35Unfortunately, they couldn't save my leg.
02:38I lost my leg here, quite away above the knee, as you can see.
02:44I lost that leg.
02:47And this leg here was fairly badly damaged.
02:53As you can see, this is the skin graft.
02:56They took it from here and put it onto the...
02:58That's where I had the damage.
03:01And it's right on the bone and the tendon.
03:04And it's took all this time to get to where it is now.
03:08I have been advised it may take five years before it's all gone.
03:13And I lost my right arm, as you can see.
03:16They've done well.
03:18They saved that just below the elbow.
03:21And that's the injuries.
03:23And I had a few bites here and a few bites there.
03:26One little bit of earhole gone up here.
03:29But that's nothing.
03:31But that's it.
03:33I had to learn to do everything with the left hand.
03:36And I don't know if anybody's ever tried.
03:39It's difficult, especially writing.
03:42I still can't really write my name, but I'm getting there.
03:45I do it now and again, just practice.
03:48And I can't make a fist.
03:50That's as far as I can get at the moment is there.
03:53But it's good. It's strong.
03:55I can use a knife, a fork or whatever like that.
03:58And I've learnt to adapt.
04:00But even some of the people in the hospital say,
04:03look, we get people here and they just accept it.
04:07But we get someone like you.
04:09You've come in here.
04:11She said, how have you got so far in so little time?
04:14We don't know.
04:16It's been determination on your part.
04:19And other people see that and it spurs them on.
04:22And I think to myself, oh, well, good.
04:24I'm doing something useful.
04:26I've always got a smile on my face.
04:28I'm never miserable, hardly, am I?
04:31Is that true?
04:33No, I'm not. Come on, be fair.
04:3590% of the time I've got a smile on my face and I'm positive.
04:41Listen, I get down at times.
04:44But everybody does.
04:48It's not just me.
04:50I get down at times.
04:52But then I think to myself, no, I'm not having this.
04:55And I get out.
04:57I know at times like that I get sentimental.
04:59I do have a little bit of a tear.
05:01But, hey, I pull myself out of it and carry on.