Vic Franklin had to have his arm and leg amputated after being attacked by Chloe Taylor’s two rottweilers in Lewes Close in Bognor.
Taylor, 27, wept as she was taken down today after being jailed for 27 months and told she will spend at least half in custody.
Her partner Matthew Roberts, who was given a 12-month suspended sentence, clasped his hands behind his head as he was told he would now be sole carer for the children, including twins born days after the attack on August 18, 2023.
The couple, from Chichester, are banned from keeping dogs for ten years.
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Portsmouth Crown Court was told the dogs would have killed Mr Franklin, 79, if a heroic neighbour had not come out swinging a metal spirit level.
Mr Franklin was attacked as he tried to protect his own spaniel dog, Peggy, from the out-of-control rottweilers Ziggy and Daisy.
Animal experts said had it not been for his neighbours, there could have been a very different outcome.
Police marksmen shot both dogs dead.
Judge William Ashworth told Taylor she ignored repeated warnings about the dogs who she knew were getting out of her insecure garden.
“The dogs were left insecure outside in the garden,” he said.
“A garden they had escaped from many times before and a garden you were aware was not secure.”
Officials who visited them expressed concerns over the dogs being bred.
A series of warnings over the aggression shown by the dogs were issued and ignored by locals, council and police, the judge said.
The last warning came two days before Mr Franklin was attacked.
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“It is a scene of utter horror and terror for anyone for a man to be pulled about, stripped of his clothes, all four limbs savaged over 11 minutes,” Judge Ashworth said.
“The experience and terror is beyond anyone’s comprehension.
“To say the injuries are life changing is to minimise them, they are that traumatic.”
“He heard growling, saw them dripping with blood,” said the judge.
“He shouted and screamed and repeatedly returned to Mr Franklin.
“Standing guard over him no doubt saved his life.”
The rottweilers mauled Mr Franklin for 11 minutes before his neighbour appeared after hearing the dogs barking and shouting.
His partner looked out at the horrific scene outside and shouted: “Oh God, there is a man being attacked by a dog.”
Mr Jones armed himself with a large spirit level and went out to confront the dogs.
Their faces were covered in blood and Mr Jones thought they were pulling at a bag on the ground.
The bag he thought they were dragging was Mr Franklin.
Mr Jones told police the bigger dog was chewing on something he said looked like skin.
A neighbour took in Mr Franklin’s spaniel after the attack and the dog survived.
Mr Franklin was left “shredded”.
Horrific CCTV of the attack was shown to stunned silence during an earlier hearing at Portsmouth Crown Court as Taylor sneered and Roberts hung his head.
Taylor was at an antenatal appointment when her dogs attacked.
Roberts told police he walked his dogs days before leaving for work in Leicester.
Mr Franklin, who now uses a wheelchair, said: “I took my dog for her daily walk.
“Little did I know my whole world would be ripped apart.
“I consider myself extremely lucky I cannot remember the attack; I would have nightmares.
“That day my life was changed forever.”
Mr Franklin said he now has to rely on his wife Sheila.
“I had to see the pain and anguish on the faces of my family in hospital,” he said.
“I miss cooking.
“Any meal I have has to be prepared and pre-cut for me like a child.”
The pensioner suffers with night terrors and said he still has phantom pains for the limbs he lost.
Roberts, 30, will do 100 hours unpaid work and 20 rehabilitation days.
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