Angie Pecoraro is recovering from a dog attack. Witnesses say that attack could have be much worse if Ms. Pecoraro's pit bulls had not come to her rescue.

Angie was covered with puncture wounds, swelling, and bruises Monday night.

Hours earlier she went to retrieve her garbage can and spotted a chow that she says tore into her leg, knocking her to the ground.

"Then he got a hold of this hand and was just tugging it back and forth," she says. "I just remember screaming for my life. I'm lucky he didn't bite me on the neck or anything when I was on the ground."

That's when Rosie and Rocky showed up. The pit bulls belong to Angie and her boyfriend Geoff Griffin.

The pit bulls were in the back yard when the attack started but they didn't stay there for long.

Angie says, "Their first instinct was they saw me in danger and they were protecting me. If it wasn't for them, I don't know. I'm just glad that they were there."

Especially considering what Griffin tells us about the chow. He says he previously saw it attack another dog.

"The chow was not being taken care of and should not have been running loose," he says. I've heard three reports of it running loose within the past six months."

The chow's owner who says he has a hard time believing his dog would just attack.

The owner is now facing responsibility for Pecoraro's medical bills and he'll have to go to court, to face a charge of harboring a dangerous animal.