Lady attacked by pit bull; ends attack with knife

A woman who raised her voice at her daughter after the child dropped a cup was attacked by her boyfriend's pit bull today. The woman stabbed the dog, and two neighbors alerted to the commotion helped subdue the animal by beating it with a pipe and a board.
The dog, which was cowering under the carport when Caddo Parish sheriff's deputies arrived at the house, will be euthanized because of the viciousness of the attack and the extent of its wounds, authorities said. Caddo sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Chadwick said Kathryn Long, 27, suffered severe dog bites to her arm and buttocks and had to be hospitalized. Investigators and neighbors said they were told there was no history of aggressiveness by the dog, which attacked Long after the 6-year-old dropped the cup and Long called out her name. One of the neighbors said she was outside and heard the commotion; the other was alerted by the child and called 911. Neighbor Christina Voight said Long and the dog were outside when she got there. The dog would not let loose despite Long's cries for help, Voight said, so the neighbors hit the dog with the board and the pipe. The dog kept attacking and Long then screamed for them to get a knife, Voight said. The dog was stabbed in the neck with a butcher knife. The incident happened this morning on Longbow Lane just outside Blanchard.

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