Dog Hailed as Hero After Saving Fisherman Owner Who Was Attacked by a 6-Foot Shark

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The horrifying incident happened on a warm summer day last month when James White, of Rohnert Park, California, was fishing from the shore at Bodega Bay in Sonoma County,NBC Bay Areareported.

After some time, White began to feel an aggressive tug on his line, which he struggled to pull in.

“It was about 10 minutes,” White told NBC Bay Area. “The only way I think I was able to get the line back is because it was swimming towards me.”

It wasn’t until the creature got into shallow water that White realized what he had caught — a 6-foot long sevengill shark.

White then attempted to remove the hook from the shark’s mouth, but it quickly sank its teeth into his ankle.

Within seconds, White told NBC Bay Area “There was blood everywhere.”

“The first bite punctured an artery,” he told the outlet. “The pressure was intense.”

“And I told him, ‘No back-off,'” White told NBC Bay Area.

After the incident, he told the outlet that his love for the pooch got stronger.

“He’s been a part of the family from day one. Just now a little more. If it wasn’t for him I would have been a lot worse,” White told the outlet.

“The first time I told somebody this, they were like, ‘You’re out of your mind, there’s no way that happened,'” White told NBC Bay Area.

“Then I showed him the pictures and I’m like, ‘No, it absolutely happened,'” White added of his brutal scars.

source: people.com