Michigan girl, 12, attacked by neighbor's pit bull, brave father fights off dog by punching it repeatedly
LINCOLN PARK, MICHIGAN: A hero dad bravely saved her daughter from the clutch of a pit bull as he savagely attacked the girl. The incident reportedly happened on September 13 when the 9-month-old dog got loose and Tony Burgess and his friend ran inside the house. However, when Burgess came outside looking for his daughter Emma, he saw she was being attacked by the animal. The 12-year-old child was riding her bicycle outside her house when the pit bull ran toward her and bit her in the leg. The vile moment was reportedly captured on a neighbor’s home security camera. As the animal continued to attack Emma, her father responded immediately and started punching it. “My only instinct was to keep punching the dog until he let go,” Burgess told WDIV. Reports also stated that the dog’s owner also came to the rescue of the girl and punched the animal so that it could let go of her.
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Emma was soon rushed to a hospital after the savage attack where she needed to get 35 stitches. “These kids are afraid to play. I won’t let them come out. They don’t want to come out,” Burgess said, adding though the canine was taken from the area by Lincoln Park Animal Control and quarantined for some days, it has now returned home just a few houses away from his house. "To me, the wounds on this child... to me or anybody in their right mind... that dog should not be sitting in that house right now," Burgess told the outlet. He also stated that he has thought about filing a police complaint regarding the incident.
In another incident, a dog mauled its owner to death on a morning walk. The incident reportedly happened on June 9 in Canada's Nova Scotia province when the unidentified owner of the pit-bull type dog killed her before running in front of a car. The owner’s body was discovered by a 15-year-old jogger, Keianna Borden, who called a passerby, Jocelyn Parker, for help. "The dog comes at me and I'm telling it to back down, because I'm not gonna hurt him. Then I see the woman in the ditch, so at this point, I’m trying to stay calm for the dog so the dog doesn’t attack me,” Borden said.
Describing the canine a “large, muscular dog”, Parker, stated: “We both just kind of looked at (the victim) the side of the road, and her injuries were rather extensive and it was very apparent she had passed away.” Parker noted the dog was acting “skittishly" before running away on a dirt road.
CBC quoted Parker as saying, “What transpired in that 10 or 15 minutes, we don't know. Only her and the dog will know. We believed that the dog had attacked her based on the type of her injuries.” Parker also said, "A lot of people are, like, 2020 can just leave right now, on a lighter note. But I just feel really bad that, yeah, at an already really difficult time, somebody's family is going to be getting more horrible news today, unfortunately. I feel really bad for her."
