SHE greets us with a broad smile and offers her left hand for us to shake, which she follows with an apology. She can’t greet with her right hand anymore – it’s been amputated after one of their pet dogs attacked her son and she intervened to protect her child.
“He literally ate my arm,” Linda Venter tells us. “Crushed it. There was nothing left.”
Linda (37) and her husband, Marius, adopted the dog, Zeus, three years ago when he was three weeks old.
The Great Dane-bull terrier cross quickly crept into their hearts and the hearts of their sons, Brenden (14), Brayden (11) and Brian (4).
“He was an inside dog,”
