Woman severely injured by her pit bull terrier in Placentia, California

Pit bull terrier

A Placentia woman was injured Monday afternoon, when one of her two pit bulls attacked and dragged her around her home, police said.

The Placentia Police Department, Orange County Fire Authority and OC Animal Care got a call at 1:30 p.m. to a home at the 700 block of East Yorba Linda Boulevard, where they found the woman with bite marks on her face, head, arms and hands, OCFA Capt. Steve Concialdi said.

The attack happened when the woman, suspected to be in her mid-40s, was bringing her male and a female pit bulls inside from the backyard.

The woman's adult daughter, who was inside the home, ran outside and yelled to two tree trimmers for help.

"I heard a scream come from inside the house" and ran inside, said Johnnyray Cabrera, one of the trimmers.

Cabrera said he grabbed a mop to get the dog, the male, off the woman.

"I started to yell at him, and he got more aggressive," Cabrera said. "I kept hitting it on the head with the mop and locked it in a room."

Placentia police officers used a Taser on the male dog because it was aggressive when they arrived, Point said. The female dog was also taken because of her aggressiveness, a Placentia Police Department statement said.

Both dogs were taken by OC Animal Care, and are scheduled to be euthanized Wednesday, police official Lt. Eric Point said. The department couldn't be reached for comment on Tuesday night.

The woman was treated by paramedics outside the home and taken to Placentia-Linda Hospital with severe, but not life-threatening, bite wounds.