To save her Lab, Minneapolis woman bites pit bull on nose

[Mugu]

By ABBY SIMONS, Star Tribune

Spare the (wo)man-bites-dog jokes, Amy Rice says.

After futile attempts to pull a pit bull's jaws off her Labrador retriever's throat after it jumped a neighbor's fence Friday, Rice was forced to turn to animal instinct.

"I ended up biting the pit bull on the nose," said Rice, 38, whose dog, Ella, was attacked in her northeast Minneapolis yard. "I didn't plan it, that's what happened.

"I broke the skin and had pit bull blood in my mouth. I knew what happened, and I knew that it wasn't good."


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[Rainbowreflect]

1. I would probably do the same to save either of my dogs.

[susankh4]

2. Good for her!

Sometimes "dog language" is the only language they understand! I have never sunk to biting one of them. But I have sure downed and growled at a few.

[DadOf2LittleAngels]

3. Put down the pitbull and test it...

I'm sorry those dogs just aint right..

[ensho]

4. she could have knuckled the dog hard in the eye or

a hard kick to the throat

biting attacking dog's nose worked but that put her face way close to the attacker! not a good thing to do.

[kestrel91316]

5. Well, that took courage. She risked getting bitten badly in the face.

But you know what they say - any port in a storm......