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Texas toddler attacked by crazed pit bull before dog blows front door off its hinges chasing family

In a terrifying scene straight out of a horror movie, a Texas 2-year-old was savagely attacked by a pit bull — before the beast then blew the front door off its hinges trying to get to the family inside.

The terrifying🐎 ordeal unfoldꦇed this week as Chante Wright-Haywood left her Austin home to drop her young son CJ off at daycare on her way to work.

Wright-Haywood spotted what she thought was another child from the neighborhood out💮 of the corner of her eye, which turned out to be a pit bull that ambushed her young son in the front yard of their home before she could g🔴et to him, reports.

The🦩 vicious attack was captured on their doorbell security camera.

Chante Wright-Haywood with her son CJ, who were terrorized this week by an unruly stray pit bull. KXAN

The video captures Wright-Haywood screaming and fighting back, kicking at the crazed m🌳utt before snatching up a hysterically crying CJ as they frantically sped toward the house.

CJ suffered 🐓a small bite to his stomach, but their harrowing encounter was ꦗjust beginning.

The dog gave chase, snapping and ju✃mping at them as Wright-Haywood shouted for her daughter inside the house to open༒ the door.

The unknown dog pounced on the 2-year-old, forcing the boy and his mother to flee for their lives back inside. Chante Wright-Haywood

“You can hear like that snapping, trying to get to him [my son],” she said. “My daughter was able to open the door, and I just kind of pushed him in…the dog was trying to get into the house,” she told WKRG.

Once inside, the predacious dog clawed at the front door from the outsi♌de as Wright-Haywood and her two children desperately braced the door with their bodies.

“The dog actually broke the door hinges off of the (door) frame..,” 🔯she sai🌺d.

After they managed to get inside the house, the dog continued its relentless pursuit, scratching on the door and even breaking it off its hinges. Chante Wright-Haywood

“Me and the kids were puttin♎g all our body weight on the door to hold the door close to keep the dog out while I’m calling police and EMS to come.”

W🅠right-Haywood said the nightmarish episode finally ended when Animal Control showed up to capture🔜 the dog.

The mother of six said unleashed dogs pr♈owling the streets has been a recurring issue in their neighᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚborhood.

The identity of the dog’s owner was not immediately known.