Actors reenact the brutal dog attack (Picture: TLC)

A paramedic responding to a call about a three-year-old who had turned blue and stopped breathing was horrifically bitten on his testicles by an overprotective family dog.

The terrifying incident happened in the US last year, and the paramedic involved has revealed all to Outrageous Emergencies, a programme that reveals the most shocking (and supposedly LOL-worthy) call-outs over in the States.

Marc Cohen, who has worked as a EMT (an emergency medical technician FYI) for 27 years, was attacked by the family dog as he was handed the toddler to take into the ambulance.

The dog, named Pork Chop *sniggers*, latched itself onto Marc’s, err private area in a bid to protect his family from the intruder.


Both Marc and the child made a full recovery (Picture: TLC)

Doctor Jacques Williams Pascal, who also appears on the show, said that: ‘If you take a large blunt force trauma to the groin, the testicles can become very swollen – almost beyond recognition.’



‘It’s very startling when a patient sees that their testicles are the size of two basketballs’. YIKES.

Thankfully Tim Hicks, Marc’s partner on the job, rushed to the rescue, took the child from him and saved the boy’s life by injecting him with Epinethrine, a form of adrenaline, to help expand his lungs.

OK, so we don’t think this is the actual attacking dog (Picture: TLC)

It is thought he was suffering from a severe asthma attack but has since made a full recovery.

The progaramme (which also includes an elderly patient throwing urine about, and a drunk college student who impales himself on a banister) aired last night on TLC at 10pm on Sky and Virgin.