Amanda Large, 48, from Belfast
Running across the grass, I giggled to myself. I was about four years old, and Mum had taken me to the park to play.
Suddenly, I noticed I wasn’t alone – there was a big black dog looking at me. It wasn’t wearing a collar. As I looked over at it, it growled, a menacing noise in the back of its throat.
Scared, I screamed and started running – but to my terror, the dog gave chase.
I ran up to a wall and cowered back as the dog advanced towards me...
She was the strangest dog I’d ever seen ‘Get off, go on, away with you,’ Mum yelled, grabbing me away from the dog, which ran off.
She tucked me, still sobbing with fear,…