MENTOR, Ohio — A mother and daughter are grateful to be alive after being attacked by a dog in their neighborhood.

"I didn't want to die, and I didn't want to have a story that my daughter died from being mauled by a pit bull,” said Mentor Resident, Alexis Higham.

On Saturday, Higham and her 4-year-old daughter, Carina, were going for one of their afternoon walks to Veteran Park in Mentor.

"My daughter said, 'Mom, look, a dog.' And when I looked, I didn't see nobody with the dog. The dog began walking towards us, and when it got closer to Carina, all she did was make eye contact with the dog, and it grabbed her by her face and it pulled her down,” said Higham.

Higham began hitting the dog with her water bottle, but it wasn’t enough to stop the attack on her daughter.

"I was like, if s

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