Looking at Rover, you wouldn't know he just came home from the emergency room on Thursday.
While taking her dog out in the back yard, Andrea Vivian was forced to watch what she thought might be her last memory of Rover.
"He was viciously attacked by the two pit bulls next door. They crashed through the fence...for ten minutes I was screaming help! Help!" said Andrea Vivian.
This was when the owners came outside and called the pit bulls off of the attack, but they already left their mark.
"I was terrified, I thought they were going to pull the dog out of my hands and take him into the woods and kill him," said Vivian.
While this attack was vicious, things could have been much worse for both Andrea and Rover. These types of incidents are common, and many blame the brutality on the breed of pit bulls.
"Its not the breed themselves that is so dangerous, it's the people that own them," said Atlantic County SPCA President, Nancy Beall.
According to the Atlantic County SPCA, 75% of dogs at an animal shelter are pit bulls, and 60% will be put to sleep. These numbers could be lowered, and attacks controlled.
"People in the animal world need to come together and find a solution for this breed, I think spaying and neutering all the pit bulls would be a great idea," said Beall.
Micro chipping and getting all dogs licensed can also prevent attacks like this from happening in the future.
"This is a wonderful little dog; he didn't deserve something like this," says Vivian.
Now Andrea says Rover is a fighter, and is going to heal perfectly fine according to his vets.
(NBC40 - March 11, 2012)
