Dog Attacks Animal Worker

June 9, 2025

Fort Lauderdale, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A frantic video captured the moments after an animal care worker was mauled by a dog during the last week of May.

Animal control worker Martina Bernard was attacked on May 29 while she was visiting a home in Fort Lauderdale. Body cam footage from Broward County Sheriff’s deputies showed the aftermath of her attack. Officers responded to a call of a woman being mauled by a dog.

The videos show the officers finding Bernard at the scene. She was laying on the ground in the backyard with her face covered in blood. The dog’s owner was seen in the video nearby, along with a neighbor and her son. The neighbors were holding down the dog which had been stabbed.

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