KATY, Texas — Courageous neighbors are credited with saving a woman's life after she said four dogs attacked her in her own front yard.

Kristi Burrell told KHOU 11 that the terrifying ordeal happened Friday night when the dogs jumped over her fence near FM 2855 in Katy.

"They started biting my legs and I was screaming, and I was thrashing and hitting and trying to stop them," Burrell said in a story you'll see only on KHOU 11. "And that's when I felt them grab my head, and they started pulling me apart like tug-of-war ... and I could feel them ripping my scalp off."

Burrell's father said she curled into a ball to protect her face and vital organs.

"Several of them then started in on her back, buttocks and arms while one commenced ripping into the top of her head, almost tearing her sca

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