THIS is the moment a 69-year-old, 90-pound woman bit a rabid pit bull to save her pet dog during a terrifying attack.

Shirley Pasamanick said she was walking her 14-year-old dog, Sparky, in a shopping plaza when "all of a sudden" the pit bull pounced on the pair.

Pasamanick said she was "shaking for days" after the attack took place outside Plaza Tropical Supermarket in Orlando, Florida on September 1, WFTV reports .

CCTV footage shows her and her dog screaming for help as she tries to fend off the pit bull outside the store.

The furious dog can be seen chasing Sparky in circles before sinking its teeth into him, forcing Pasamanick to drop to the ground and try to pull it off.

Pasamanick told WFTV: "I had my cane, I started beating him with the cane."

When the pit bull kept

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