When dog trainer Charlotta Oskarsson’s Swedish pooch was startled by fireworks, he snapped – and bit off his 35-year-old owner’s nose. Even though the body part had to be amputated, she did not want to put the animal to sleep.
The tragic incident took place on New Year’s Eve: the New Year 2023 was only a few minutes old, fireworks were exploding outside as Oskarsson tried to calm her panicky dog ”Prince” at her home in the northern Swedish province of Gällivare.
Influencer: “He bit me in panic”
She wanted to say ‘good night’ to him and leaned over the Karelian bear dog, the Swede describes the accident on Instagram. “A mistake,” she writes: “He bit me in panic and it was so bad that I lost my entire nose.”
Here Oskarsson is seen with her Karelian Bear Dog before the accident:
Nose had to be removed after a few days
Oskarsson was flown to a hospital along with her bitten nose. Attempts were made to sew the body part back on, but without success. The nose turned dark and had to be removed after a few days. A long ordeal follows – because, according to the dog trainer, there is no doctor in Sweden who can repair her nose.
The dog trainer had to undergo many operations to repair her nose:
New nose made from forehead skin
The 35-year-old had to live without a nose for a year and a half. She documented her ordeal on social media. Then she found help in Germany: in Stuttgart her new nose would be reconstructed “in five steps”. To do this, a sample of skin is taken from your forehead and a saline solution is injected into the area, stretching the skin in the area. “This gives me my ‘normal’ skin on my nose and therefore no discolouration on my face, the influencer explains on Instagram. The process is expected to last eight months.
Oskarsson is not angry with her dog ‘Prince’: ‘I am 100 percent convinced that Prinz did not want to hurt me, he was stressed and scared,’ said the dog influencer. She is convinced he behaved the way many dogs would behave in this situation. She kept the Karelian Bear Dog even after the attack.
Source: Krone
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