A MUCH-loved family pet who narrowly escaped death after being savagely mauled outside her home is slowly recovering.

Boggie (pictured), a six-year-old Jack Russell, was attacked by a pair of lurcher-type dogs while she was in her home’s front garden in Waterside Fold, East Morton, on March 30.

The dogs ran into the garden by crossing a small stream which separates the garden from a nearby field. Boggie was hurled into the stream and savaged, sustaining dozens of bites and losing a lot of blood.

The onslaught only stopped when a man who said he had been walking nearby appeared and called the lurchers off.

Boggie was rushed to a vet, where she remained until last Saturday when her owners, Caroline and Michael Fallis-Taylor, were able to take her home.

The couple, who have two young children, are appealing for the owner of the lurchers to take responsibility for what happened and make sure it never occurs again.

Mr Fallis-Taylor, 41, said: “Boggie is at home now and is convalescing. She’s still having treatment and she’s out of immediate danger but it’ll be at least another six to eight weeks before she is fully recovered.”