DeeMo / Dog Photos / CC BY-NC-SA According to an Elizabeth Police Department spokesman, a police officer shot and killed a pit bull on three-lined Fernwood Terrace after the dog bit its owner more than 20 times. The New Jersey News reported that the victim, an 18-year-old Elizabeth woman, was in her bedroom during the […]
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A 30-year-old Lakewood woman was attacked by a pit bull at her father’s home in Jackson. She sustained 17 bites and lacerations, leaving her with approximately 300 stitches. She sued her father and his female friend, and the Middlesex County jury ordered that the defendants pay the victim $1.5 million for her injuries. The New
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A 9-year-old boy called 911 and was able to save his 15-year-old sister from further injury after she was mauled by a family-owned pit bull. The incident occurred at their home on Starmond Avenue. At half past one in the afternoon, the boy from Clifton called 911 and told the dispatchers that the family dog
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JoF / Dog Photos / CC BY The New Jersey News reported that a dogfight occurred at 28th street and Avenue E in Bayonne, resulting in injuries to five persons, including two police officers who were attempting to break up the fight. A woman was walking three leashed pit bull terriers when two of the
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ldbaker / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND A pit bull bit the leg of a 13-year-old boy and drove him to escape up a tree along with a 15-year-old boy. A police sergeant responded to the scene and shot the dog dead at P.J. Hill Elementary School. Police report says that two loose pit bulls ran
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OakleyOriginals / Dog Photos / CC BY A Teaneck township woman was forced to put down her 5-pound Bichon Frise-Poodle-mix after a pit bull got loose from its leash and attacked the small dog on the street. The pit bull went for Melo’s neck, swung it back and forth and didn’t let go until the
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deVos / Dog Photos / CC BY-NC-SA An American Staffordshire Terrier mix pet dog in Clinton Township attacked and bit a 45-year old woman, one of its owners, causing severe injuries and uncontrolled bleeding on one of her hands. The reports say that when police officers arrived, the dog was at large and the victim
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