Canal Fulton -- The owners of two dogs face multiple charges after police say the animals went on a two county rampage attacking at least four people along the way.

Wayne County authorities say the dogs somehow got away from their owners while they were out for a walk.

Captain Doug Hunter of the Wayne County Sheriff's Office tells Fox 8 that a person who saw the dogs break free attempted to help grab one of them, but the larger of the two, a brown dog named Rocky, snapped at him injuring his hand.

The dogs then stayed together, wandering onto State Route 21 in a snowstorm. Raquel Ellis of Norton and her mother Margaret Thomas were driving south to visit a relative.

"There was these two dogs running in front of the car" Thomas told Fox 8 news, "and I didn't want to hit them, and (Raquel) was like lets stop they have leashes and stuff and we'll see if they got tags to call somebody."

Ellis says she got out of their SUV and approached the dogs which were friendly to her at first.

"I was able to pet them I was able to check their collars look for dog tags to have a phone number and not until I turned back to my car is when I was attacked."

When she turned to get back to the vehicle, Ellis says Rocky lunged for her.

"The brown dog jumped on my back and ripped my coat, and as he did that I looked to my mother who was sitting there and could just see the look of panic on her face." said Ellis.

She tells Fox 8 that she tried to get to the vehicle, which was about four feet away. When she grabbed for the door handle she says she saw 'Rocky' coming at her face.

"When she turned he lunged and got her face and blood and feathers from her jacket went everywhere" Thomas told Fox 8.

Ellis thinks she finally hit the dog with the door of the SUV and managed to get inside, but not before she suffered terrible injuries to her left eye and her lower lip.

"I have one internal stitch, and ten external and then with my lip he actually took a chunk out and they put it together the best they could."

The dogs were not through yet.

From there they wandered into a Canal Fulton neighborhood in Stark County. By now the owners had notified Wayne County authorities that the dogs were loose and asked for help finding them.

On Maynard Avenue a 61 year old woman was out trying to shovel her drive when the dogs approached her.

Carolyn Shuttleworth was watching from her house a few doors down the street.

"I thought it was a kid playing with their dog and all of a sudden she started hollering help me help me." Shuttleworth told Fox 8 News.

Her son and husband ran from the house to help. "I called my son and told him there's somebody down there getting chewed up."