Pit Bull Mauls Two People and Dog, Police Say
Salisbury Township Police shot and killed a stray pit bull in the 1400 block of Pearl Avenue after it attacked two people, a dog and an officer, police said.
Salisbury Township police shot and killed a stray pit bull Monday after it mauled two adults and a dog and lunged at the officers, according to a police news release. Police were called to the 1400 block of Pearl Avenue to investigate a 911 call of a female screaming for help, police said. When officers arrived, they found a woman who was bitten and knocked down by a stray pit bull in her front yard. While police, with the assistance of Animal Control and the Lehigh County Humane Society, were helping the woman, they were alerted that a 73-year-old man and his dog whom he was walking were being attacked nearby, police said. The man, woman and dog needed medical assistance. Police transported the man's small dog, who was critically injured …
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Rick Cornish
9:27 pm on Sunday, March 24, 2013
Especially here in the Lehigh Valley there is a "toughness" that people want to express by having this breed. That is the only reason...to show off! more ›