Woman bites dog

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Minneapolis resident Amy Rice tells the Associated Press that she feared for her dog’s life when a pit bull jumped over a fence into her yard and attacked her pooch. So she took matters into her own hands. Or mouth.

Rice says she bit the pit bull on the nose Friday after unsuccessfully trying to pull the dog’s jaws off her Labrador retriever, Ella.

‘I didn’t plan it, that’s what happened. I broke the skin and had pit bull blood in my mouth,’ said Rice, 38. ‘I knew what happened, and I knew that it wasn’t good.’

It’s not clear whether Rice was exposed to rabies. The pit bull was quarantined by Minneapolis Animal Control officers.

‘I was sure that my dog was dying in my arms; it was horrible,’ Rice said. Ella is recovering with staples and stitches to her head and a crushed ear canal, Rice said.

In 2005 the Antelope Valley experienced a rash of attacks by pit bulls; this one was taken to the Los Angeles County animal shelter in Lancaster. The attacks prompted the Board of Supervisors to allocate funds to hire four animal control officers and a shelter aid to combat the problem.

-- Francisco Vara-Orta