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Article: Killer dog that refused to die; Four stabbings, a 50,000-voltTaser gun and 17 bullets from police marksmen finally destroy mastiff that savaged owner's two-year-old son.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 9, 2006
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Byline: CHRISTOPHER LEAKE
POLICE marksmen called to save a two-year-old child from the jaws of a bull mastiff had to pump 17 bullets into the dog before it would die.
The animal had already been stabbed four times with a bread knife by its owner in a desperate effort to make it drop his son.
When police marksmen arrived, they initially fired a 50,000-volt Taser gun in a vain attempt to stop the frenzied attack by three-year-old family pet Mitch.
They then emptied the entire clip of a Glock 17, 9mm pistol into the dog before it finally collapsed and died.
'They fired 17 times but Mitch kept getting up and wouldn't die,' said ...