Pit Bull Ordered Out of City After Biting Boy
A pit bull that attacked and viciously bit a 10-year-old boy in Azusa has been ordered out of the city.
Invoking the city’s dangerous animals law, Police Chief John Broderick on Wednesday ordered the dog’s owner to remove it from Azusa.
Police spokesman Sam Gonzalez said the dog, which was kept in its owner’s backyard in the 900 block of East Hollyvale Street, jumped to the top of a wall and attacked the boy, who had climbed on top of the wall seeking a shortcut to a shopping center.
The boy was bitten repeatedly until a neighbor threw a hammer at the dog. The child was treated at a hospital and released.
The dog attacked another child in December 1996, according to a police report.
Gonzalez said the dog’s owner has arranged for relatives in Mexico to take the dog, which is now quarantined at a Humane Society shelter in San Gabriel.
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