Thursday, June 30, 2011

Rat Terrier Killed by Pit Bull, Newspaper calls it a "dog fight"

MASSACHUSETTS --- The following is an excerpt from the Salem Police Department's Tuesday and Wednesday logs.

A dog [attack] was reported at 4:41 p.m. Tuesday on Gables Circle, police said. The caller said one of the neighbor's pit bulls jumped the fence and attacked a 6-year-old rat terrier.

The rat terrier "was bit[ten] in the left flank and carried around in the pit bull's mouth. The pit bull then released the terrier and jumped back into its own yard," the caller told police.

Police said the terrier was brought to the vet and died from its injuries.