An animal-loving gran was mauled to death by a dog she took in as a stray. Anne Shields took in a pit bull named Choccy to live at her holiday home but suffered "catastrophic" injuries to her head and arm when the animal turned on her.
She died the next day in hospital. Her daughter Sarah, from Preston, said the 67-year-old couldn’t bear to cast Choccy back onto the street and that what happened to her is a "nightmare", reports LancsLive.
Neighbours heard Anne’s screams at her home in Macastre, near Valencia, and raised the alarm. READ MORE: Life in the Greater Manchester village where you pay 12p to get in and out Police who rushed to the address shot the dog so medics could reach Anne.
Sarah told the Sun how Anne wound up taking the dog on for good as all the animal shelters were full up. It hadn’t been her intention to keep the dog.
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