WIFE BITE PIT BULL SHOOTER REPORTED

WIFE BITE PIT BULL SHOOTER REPORTED

(ANSA) - Turin, November 2 - A man who shot his pit bull terrier after it attacked his wife has been reported by the Italian association for the protection of animals (ENPA).

''This is the umpteenth absurd episode in which the animal is the victim,'' said ENPA Turin chief Giovanni Pallotti.

The man, an undertaker, put the dog down after it bit his wife at their home near Turin in the latest of a string of aggressive incidents.

''What I'd like to know is whether the man ever turned to the veterinary services about the animal's behaviour,'' Pallotti said.

''That would amount to a serious failure to act whose results, ultimately fatal for the animal, could have caused an even greater tragedy''.

ENPA said it would accuse the undertaker of unnecessarily putting down an animal and would stand as plaintiff.