{"id":37117,"date":"2026-03-23T13:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/37117\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:02:25","slug":"geneva-woman-recovering-after-being-attacked-and-injured-by-three-pit-bulls-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/37117\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva woman recovering after being attacked and injured by three pit bulls dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

GENEVA, Ala. (WDHN<\/a>)\u2014 A Geneva woman is recovering after a violent dog attack just steps from her home, an ordeal she says left her with lasting physical and emotional scars.<\/p>\n

Sheila Pate said she was less than 50 feet from her house when three pit bulls attacked her last week. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the first dog grabbed me, he grabbed me between my legs,\u201d Pate told WDHN. \u201cAnd it was excruciating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pate said the attack happened during what began as a normal morning, just hours after the storms moved through. With debris and downed powerlines littering the surrounding area, she began to walk from her home to Geneva High School, where she works as a lunch lady. That\u2019s when the first pit bull attacked.<\/p>\n

Before she could do anything, two more dogs joined the fray, biting and pulling at Pate. <\/p>\n

\u201cI got bit on my breast, and that\u2019s when one of them snatched me,\u201d she recalled. \u201cWith scars, they\u2019ll heal eventually. But guess what? Mentally, I won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you go, out of your house, that you lived in for seven years, in a neighborhood that never seen these dogs,\u201d Pate told WDHN. \u201cAnd God as my witness, I screamed several, several times. I saw death, several times. I saw my casket.\u201d <\/p>\n

Neighbors and Pate\u2019 son heard her screams near North Morris Street as she fought to survive. <\/p>\n

Only after her son arrived to help did the dogs stop their attack. He was also bitten during the struggle. <\/p>\n

Pate suffered severe injuries, including deep bite wounds that required more than 100 stitches. Even though it\u2019s over, Pate said the trauma has only continued for her. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t sleep. I have to lay in a certain position, I see these dogs in my face. I see these dogs telling me, \u2018you didn\u2019t die then, but I\u2019m going to get you,’\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Despite this, she\u2019s determined to return to work as part of her healing process, saying, \u201cI live with this. I am going back to work, because if I don\u2019t, I am going to be crazy. I can\u2019t sit in this house, and to hear them dogs and feel them dogs when I sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n

The attack came during an already difficult time for Pate, who recently lost her mother. Her funeral was held last Saturday. <\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t dealt with that. I am just trying to work, and focus. We had bury her so, I was going to be buried,\u201d Pate said, her voice shaking.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not sleep. I was about to give up. When I put my hands up, I was going to say Lord I can\u2019t do it, I can\u2019t. And I was really going to take my hands down and tell them to have at it. I couldn\u2019t do it\u2026 But my mom? She came, and she said, get up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pate now faces a long recovery as she works to heal both physically and emotionally after the attack. <\/p>\n

A GoFundMe for Shiela has been established to help with medical bills due to the dog attack. For anyone interested in donating, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GENEVA, Ala. (WDHN)\u2014 A Geneva woman is recovering after a violent dog attack just steps from her home,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2533,15099,14279,65,899,21854,1202,21853,21100,3814],"class_list":{"0":"post-37117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-alabama","9":"tag-dog-attack","10":"tag-dogs","11":"tag-geneva","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-mauling","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-pit-bulls","16":"tag-wdhn","17":"tag-wiregrass"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116278627135643717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}