Pit bull drama: mother stabs her own dog to save daughter
Created: 04/28/2022, 05:30
By: Anna Lehmer
A 1-year-old girl was attacked by a pit bull in the United States.
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Two pit bulls attacked a one-year-old girl in California.
Fearing for her daughter, the mother grabbed the kitchen knife.
One of the dogs died.
California - A mother used a kitchen knife to stab her own four-legged friend in a dog attack in California on Sunday (April 24).
Two pit bulls attacked and injured the 30-year-old and her daughter.
In her distress, she stabbed her two dogs to save the life of the one-year-old girl.
Pitbull attacks baby: mother grabs the kitchen knife
As reported by the Los Angeles Times, a call for help was received by telephone at 10:18 p.m.
A woman informed officers of a dog attack in which at least one of her dogs - described as pit bulls - bit the toddler.
The animals attacked the child when it began to cry.
"I went into the kitchen and I saw my two daughters and my son on the floor trying to get rid of the dogs," the mother, Jamie M., told local television station
ABC-TV Channel 7
.
Dog attacks one-year-old child: "I had to stab the dog"
Several family members were still trying to pull the dogs away, the toddler's grandmother, Margaret Ann Morales, told the broadcaster.
One of the dogs grabbed her granddaughter's leg and wouldn't let go.
Jamie M. told
KTLA-TV
that she was bitten on the face trying to free her baby.
The hands were also torn open during the rescue attempt.
"I had to stab the dog.
I had to do it," she explained her act.
"It was either him or my daughter, and I chose my daughter." Both pit bulls were stabbed in the incident.
One of them died at the scene, police said.
The other was taken into custody by an animal welfare agency.
"I feel really bad, but I had to do it.
I'm pretty sure anyone would have done it," said the mother of the child who was attacked.
The pit bulls had lived in the home for about four months and, according to family members, had never shown any aggressive behavior, American television network
FOX 11
reported .
Jamie M. and daughter were taken to a nearby hospital after the attack.
The girl is undergoing surgery for injuries to her arm and upper shoulder, officials said.
The US police from Wisconsin reported a similar incident.
A mother saved her son from a pit bull attack and died herself.
"It was either him or my daughter": Mother stabs her own dog
Pitbulls are often labeled as an aggressive dog breed.
According to the
Los Angeles Times
, these dogs were responsible for 67% of all fatal dog attacks in the United States between 2005 and 2020, despite making up only about 6% of the canine population there.
In addition, they would attack almost twice as often as other races without provocation.
Pitbulls often don't have it easy in animal shelters, many animals have to wait a long time to be adopted.
In Bavaria, for example, an unfortunate pit bull only found a "mom" in the animal shelter years later - then he had to die anyway.
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