A 77-year-old woman is recovering after she says she was attacked by a neighbor’s pit bull.http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/dekalb-county/woman-says-pitbull-attacked-her-killed-her-dog/224781345Jeanette Lasseter says she was taking her 8-year-old Maltese dog, Zoey, out to go to the bathroom around 1 a.m. Sunday at their home on Camelot Circle in Tucker when the pit bull attacked, killing her dog and taking a chunk out of her thigh.
“It all just seemed like a nightmare. A big nightmare,” Lasseter said. “This should have never, ever, ever happened.
Lasseter says it all happened in the blink of an eye. She was trying to push Zoey under a van for safety when the dog got hold of her leg.
“(It) pulled me down the driveway, out from under the truck,” she said.
Lasseter’s daughter says she heard the screams and ran to help pull the pit bull off of her mother.
“She’s bleeding all over the place and all I can think is, 'Grab the dog and pull him off,'” P.J. Seale said.
She tied up the pit bull until police arrived, but it was too late for Zoey.
“Punctures in her lungs, heart maybe, intestines -- it was horrible,” Seale said.
Readers help victims of pitbull attackhttp://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11624949An American pitbull dog responsible for the attack on an elderly man and his dog in Kaikohe has been handed over to authorities and is likely to be destroyed.
While 92-year-old Jim Morgan and his dog Sandy recuperated from their injuries, animal control officers continued to investigate the Saturday morning attack on Harold Ave. Generous Northern Advocate readers were also wanting to help pay the $700 vet bill and donate gifts to make Sandy's recovery easier.
Rochester Toddler Hospitalized after Pit Bull Attack http://kstp.com/news/pit-bull-attacks-rochester-toddler/4109461/A Rochester toddler was hospitalized after a pit bull attack over the weekend.
The incident happened Sunday night at the Elton Hills School playground.
Rochester police say the toddler, his mother and the two people who own the dog were at the park that evening; police say the dog lived in the same home as the child, who was identified by family members as Deoveon Callier Mathews.
The toddler was throwing rocks in the air when the 65-pound dog latched onto him and held on for nearly five minutes, despite witnesses' efforts to make the dog let go, police say.
Justin Shellhart was one of the neighbors who helped save the boy. He says it took three adults to pull the dog off the boy.
"I just know I had to do whatever I could to save the boy. I have three kids of my own, so I know what that mom is going through," he said.
