A pet owner says an attack dog tried to rip his prize pup limb-from-limb - a month before another of the same breed killed a baby.The Mirror reports that Alan Hickman's pet Molly was lucky to be alive following the ravaging she endured on February 25.
Over the course of a terrifying five minutes, an American Bully XL raced towards Alan and his Shih Tzu, snatching the pooch from his arms and clamping her in its jaws.
It took a barrage of punches from the 62-year-old and a flurry of kicks from a passer-by for the larger hound to relax its jaw.
In the month since the attack in Birmingham's Manor Farm Park, Molly has made a good physical recovery yet remains a shadow of her former self.
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