Tributes have been paid to a 'lovely' gran who was brutally mauled to death by a pack of dogs in her own home. Ann Dunn, 65, whose family bred XL Bulldogs, was pronounced dead by police at roughly 4pm on Monday.
Officers attended the address in Vauxhall, Liverpool after neighbours reported hearing a woman screaming inside the property. Five American bulldogs were later seized by Merseyside police and humanely destroyed, the Mirror reports.
One neighbour described Ann, who worked as a cleaner, as the “loveliest person”. The resident, who did not wish to be identified said: “She was lovely, really funny, such a happy girl. She had not long ago been on holiday with her daughter.
“When I found out I was so upset. I couldn’t sleep that night, I was laid awake thinking about what state she must have been in when they found her. It’s awful.
“I used to see her walking to work, no matter the weather, come rain or shine she’d always walk down and never missed a day.”
Another resident who paid tribute to the grandmother of one and mum of two, said she never failed to say 'hello'.
He said: "She always used to stop and chat and she was always smiling. She was a lovely woman.
"The first thing I saw was a load of people gathered at the end of the crescent talking to each other on the phone. Then all the police turned up with the fire engines.
"When I found out it was Ann who had been attacked by a dog I was in shock. I couldn't believe it.
"I've lived here for 38 years and there's been a huge increase in the number of fatal dog attacks that you hear about or read about in the paper. I've seen lots of vicious and nasty looking dogs, I don't know why anyone would want a dog like that, but they seem to be more and more popular."
Another young woman who lives close by to the scene said she had seen an explosion in the number of Bully type breeds in the area in the last three years. She said: "There's a lot of breeders in the area, it's very common, everyone is breeding dogs now.
"Even in the last three years or so there's been a big increase in the number of Bully type dogs in the area and they are quite scary to be fair. You just know they shouldn't be bred in back gardens, even on Instagram there's loads of kennels popping up. In my opinion it's another form of drug dealing."
Cops have also arrested a 31-year-old man on suspicion of owning a dog dangerously out of control and he is being questioned by detectives.
