“The one dog chased the other two dogs away from me,” she said. “I was fighting back… I started yelling, then I heard somebody else yelling, and I’m pretty sure that was the lady… at a house.”Īnother dog - likely the homeowner’s - bounded up to the animals attacking McKay. The big brown-and-black dogs - possibly boxers, McKay said - frightened her as she fended for her life. The dogs forced her to the ground and she fell into the ditch for what felt like “forever,” but was likely only a few moments. I thought I was going to die.” –Annabelle McKay The dogs came up to me, I started swinging my purse, then they started biting, attacking me.” “I kept on walking, hoping they’d leave me alone, but no…. “I didn’t think I would get attacked, I just kept on walking on the road,” McKay said. When she reached Dallas, a small community on the northeast edge of Peguis, she heard the dogs barking. She had been hoping for a ride, but instead set out on foot along Provincial Road 224. The two communities are about 22 kilometres apart.
McKay had been making her way back to her place in Fisher River Cree Nation, having spent the night visiting her brother and sister-in-law in Peguis.
She spoke to the Free Press from her hospital bed at Health Sciences Centre Thursday, where she was under observation after being airlifted with serious injuries from the Interlake Indigenous community about 180 kilometres north of Winnipeg on Sunday.įisher Branch RCMP were called to the scene at about 12:25 a.m., where officers found McKay, who had crawled to the home of a woman who called for help. The mother of three was mauled by dogs - two or three, she said - shortly after midnight on Sunday on the northern edge of Peguis First Nation.Īnnabelle McKay was mauled by two or three dogs shortly after midnight on Sunday on the northern edge of Peguis First Nation. I don’t know how I managed - I don’t know how I’m still alive today,” the 52-year-old Fisher River Cree Nation woman said. “They ripped my clothes right off from me.
Free Press 101: How we practise journalismĪnnabelle McKay expected the worst as the dogs set upon her in the dark and she fell to the ditch filled with water.
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