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AndrewLoh
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July 26, 2008
Boy bites pit bull, snaps tooth
SAO PAULO (Brazil) - AN 11-year old boy is in Brazil's media spotlight after sinking his teeth into the neck of a dog that attacked him.
Local newspapers reported on Thursday that Gabriel Almeida was playing in his uncle's backyard in the city of Belo Horizonte when a pit bull named Tita lunged at him and bit him in the left arm.
Almeida grabbed the dog by the neck and bit back - biting so hard that he lost a canine tooth.
Almeida tells the O Globo newspaper: 'It is better to lose a tooth than one's life.'
Stonemasons working nearby chased the dog away before it could attack again.
The Folha de S. Paulo newspaper says the boy received four stitches at a local hospital while the dog was taken to a pound and may be killed.
Boy bites pit bull, snaps tooth
SAO PAULO (Brazil) - AN 11-year old boy is in Brazil's media spotlight after sinking his teeth into the neck of a dog that attacked him.
Local newspapers reported on Thursday that Gabriel Almeida was playing in his uncle's backyard in the city of Belo Horizonte when a pit bull named Tita lunged at him and bit him in the left arm.
Almeida grabbed the dog by the neck and bit back - biting so hard that he lost a canine tooth.
Almeida tells the O Globo newspaper: 'It is better to lose a tooth than one's life.'
Stonemasons working nearby chased the dog away before it could attack again.
The Folha de S. Paulo newspaper says the boy received four stitches at a local hospital while the dog was taken to a pound and may be killed.
