© Mike Ullery/ Daily Call Piqua police and officers from the Miami County Animal Shelter remove a pit bull from 1006 Madison in Piqua on Wednesday after the dog attacked two people.
Piqua police responded to a report of a dog attack on Wednesday.
The dispatch indicated that a dog was attacking an individual and would not stop attacking.
Police responded to 1006 Madison Street and arrived
to find the dog, a pit bull, still attacking its owner. Officers used both Tasers and pepper spray on the animal in order to evacuate the family of three from the home.
The house was secured and the animal shelter called to remove the vicious pit bull from the home.
A pair of officers from the Miami County Animal Shelter, along with several police officers, entered the home and managed to get the animal out without further incident, as the residents watched from a safe vantage point.
Officers said that a child at the home had apparently reached for her cell phone when it began to ring and with the sudden movement, the pit bull attacked her. Her father immediately jumped to her rescue and the dog turned to attack him. Police say that they believe that an ankle-high leather work boot the man was wearing probably saved him from more severe injury but that the dog had inflicted severe bite wounds to the man's foot, ankle and leg.
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