tried to pry an attacking pitbull off young boy in
Thursday morning, Angelina Slusser was outside her shop on Main Street in Canandaigua when she saw a pitbull jump on the back of a 10-year-old boy. Child, father left seriously injured after dog attack in Canandaigua “Then all hell broke loose,” she said. “It escalated and the kid just started screaming bloody murder and I knew at that point, OK, this is bad.” She rushed over and threw her hand inside the dog’s mouth trying to get it to release the boy, but it wasn’t until someone else grabbed the dog’s tail it did so. That’s when it latched onto the dad’s tricep. “The dad just kept screaming and wailing, ‘he’s ripping my arm, he’s ripping my arm,’ and there was just blood everywhere all over the sidewalk, all over me,” Slusser explained. Following the attack, Angelina realized the dog had torn off her nail. After that, the father and son were treated at the hospital for serious injuries but were expected to live. News 8 recently learned the dog had been causing trouble all month...