OHIO -- A dog sitter and his wife were attacked and seriously injured by a pit bull/Labrador mix dog at a Florence apartment early Thursday.
"He's got some pretty serious injuries to his arm," said Florence Police Capt. Tom Grau of the male dog sitter.
The couple was taken to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Florence shortly after the 5:40 a.m. incident in the 900 block of Trellises Drive.
Their names and ages were not released.
The dog sitter told police he was attempting to take the dog out for a morning walk when he inadvertently startled it by reaching for the leash.
The dog latched onto the man's arm, biting it and his hands several times.
The man got away, but not before the dog bit his wife in the arm when she woke and came to his aid.
He fled to the kitchen and called 911 while she locked herself in the bathroom.
When police arrived, they heard the couple yelling for help from inside the apartment.
At that point, the dog was partially contained by a baby gate in one of the apartment's hallways.
Authorities entered and used food to lure the dog into a bathroom.
They locked the animal inside while they tended to the couple's wounds.
Boone County animal control officials removed it from the apartment.
They have custody of the dog and are trying to track down the owner, who lives in Newport but is out of town on vacation, police said.
Florence does not have a ban on pit bulls, but the city does have a vicious dog ordinance that requires owners to contain or leash them at all times and keep $25,000 insurance policies, Grau said.
An investigation is underway. It's too soon to say if the dog's owner will face charges, Grau said.
(Cincinnati.com - Aug 28, 2014)
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