An elderly couple at home on 35 Dennison St. in Roxbury were attacked by one of their four dogs, which mauled the woman so badly she was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries to her arm, around 4:30 p.m.
Arriving officers applied a tourniquet to her arm, barely still attached to her body, to try to contain the bleeding until Boston EMTs and paramedics could arrive. But the woman, 70, was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Not long after officers arrived, according to a recording of scanner traffic from the scene, the dog went after officers, biting two, one of whom who shot the dog to stop the attack. The dog did not immediately die, but it did stop biting.
Animal Control was called in to deal with both the shot dog and three other dogs in the house.
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Staffordshire Terrier is the
By anon
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:20am
Staffordshire Terrier is the breed. So a mixed Staffordshire.
Mix?
By anon
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:28am
A pitbull is a mix. Varying sorts of bull dog and terrier, but that actual mix is rarely actually given much thought.
It is not a breed.
They bred dogs for aggression and kept them in cages. That's the story - not the retroactive application of a made up breed.
We need strict licensing of animal breeders, not a slaughter of "looks like this or that".
I wonder...
By Darryll J Fernald
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 6:22pm
If it was the unleashed dog that charged me flipping me off my bicycle and then attacked me. Certainly shifted my perspective on some certain dogs.
I was chased by two dogs and bitten ….
By Lee
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 8:19am
…. while riding my bike as a teenager. I jumped onto the roof of a parked car to get away.
They looked like black Labrador retrievers. I still love black labs and have owned or cared for mixes.
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