Jul 24, 2008 4:37 pm US/Eastern
Boy, 11, Bites Pit Bull To Fend Off Attack
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) ―
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Almeida grabbed the dog by the neck and bit back biting so hard that he lost a canine tooth.
AP
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 said the boy received four stitches at a local hospital while the dog was taken to a pound and may be killed.
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