When Linzey Jane received a call from his mother-in-law to say that their beloved family pet Angel had been savagely attacked by a ferocious Pitbull he dropped everything and raced home.
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According to an eyewitness, Angel innocently stuck her head out of the gate and the Pitbull (who was accompanying his owner) lunged at her with unrelenting determination to pull her through the narrow gap in the gate and kill her.
Five-year-old Angel who weighs a mere 6.9 kg’s was no match for the Pitbull and frantically tried to flee. The Pitbull shook her little body like a rag doll until the skin around her neck tore open allowing her to escape.
By the time Linzey arrived home, the driveway and sidewalk was covered in blood and he could see that his wife’s “first love” had been mortally injured so he wasted no time getting her to us.
Angel’s injuries were so severe that she required weeks of hospitalisation and intensive care before being reunited with her family.
“This near tragedy happened in Tafelsig an area that is home to far too many unsocialised and ill-treated dogs – especially power breeds (like Pitbulls) that suffer unimaginable hardship, deprivation and cruelty at the hands of their ill equipped and clueless owners who immediately disown their dogs as soon as there is trouble and the time has come for society to hold them accountable”, says the Animal Welfare Society of SA.
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