Officers responded to a call about a large dog attacking a smaller dog near Southeast 136th Avenue and Holgate Boulevard. They arrived to find a pit bull shaking a small dog in its mouth.
Sgt. Pete Simpson said people were hitting the pit bull, trying to get him to drop the small dog. An officer used pepper spray on the dog, but it had no effect.
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| Lucky to be alive |
“Fearing the pit bull was about to kill the tiny dog, and that the pit bull was a danger to the bystanders trying to help, an officer shot the pit bull one time, killing it instantly,” Simpson said in a news release.
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| Appropriately named Villain. |
Villain's owner told KATU that he was old and friendly and he was trying to protect his friend, a dog named Princess that lived in the same house.
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| Words of wisdom from an idiot: "He's really old so it's not like he's particularly dangerous to people, I guess, but to dogs evidently..." |
The smaller dog, named Simba, survived and was taken to a veterinarian for treatment. Simba's owner told KATU that Villain went after her dog unprovoked.
Multnomah County Animal Control took custody of Villain’s body.
(KTVZ - July 15, 2013)
