CRAWFORD, Ala. (WTVM) - A 10-year-old girl is recovering after a dog attack that happened a week ago in east Alabama.

Boston Avery was checking the mail last Monday morning when her family’s dogs followed her outside. Two other dogs approached her, and one of them attacked her in the front yard of her home on “The Lane” in Crawford.

Attack details

“I kept on beating the dog, and it kept biting me harder and harder. It kept turning its head, trying to twist my leg off,” Boston said.

Boston was bitten multiple times on the leg and required two surgeries and 38 stitches.

Her father, Chris Avery, said the family first saw the two dogs the night before the attack on their back porch. The next morning, the attack occurred when Boston’s small dogs got out and prompted the incident.

“It was

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