A VICTIM is now recovering after being viciously attacked by a dog while his wife witnessed it in horror.

Scott Cooper was minding his business in his home driveway in South Carolina when the incident occurred.

“We were outside by our Jeep. My wife noticed a dog in our driveway, and we hadn’t seen the dog before,” Scott explained how it began to local NBC news affiliate WCBD.

At first, the dog seemed happy, wagging its tail, until his demeanor changed on a dime.

“Then the dog jumped, which I thought was normal, you know, dogs jump. Until he started growling and it just went downhill from there and he took me to the ground pretty quick,” said Scott.

He then recalled how he felt while the dog’s teeth dug into his face and arms.

“Helpless. I know I got probably one, probably, decent punch into the dog’s head. It did absolutely nothing,” he said.

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It was soon after that the dog knocked Scott to the ground and continued its assault.

“I thought after he took me to the ground, I was just trying to cover my face at that point. That’s why my arms got so banged up. I really thought that was it,” Scott explained his injuries.

Scott’s wife recalled the lead-up similarly, having gone to grab the dog’s owner.

“I just happened to hear somebody yelling and so I yelled down our driveway, I said ‘hey, are you looking for a dog?’ He said ‘yeah,’ I said, ‘well- he’s in our yard, come get him,’” his wife, Dominique Cooper, said.

That was before the dog attacked, and she heard it first.

“All I see is him dragging my husband down to the ground and I just- I hear my husband, this bloodcurdling scream,” his wife recalled.

The couple had lost their son to suicide a year prior, Scott recalled to WCBD.

That and the man who was attacked by dogs nearby on Halloween was all that was going through Scott’s mind following the attack.

“I kept thinking of the gentleman that just lost his life to those two dogs a few weeks ago, and I thought I was about to be in the same boat. I really did. Losing our son was enough. I didn’t want my wife to go through that again,” he said.

The dog’s breed has not been identified, but its owner has been cited on three separate counts: one for animal at large, one for no rabies vaccination, and one for public disturbance.