By Cathy Elelman • Published: 08 Jan 2020 • 11:18
A DOG owner knifed his own pet to death after the animal suddenly turned on him and his wife at their home in Manises in Valencia on Monday night.
The animal, believed to be a large pit bull cross, bit the 36-year man and 40-year old woman several times on the hands and ankles. Spanish media reported that the man’s reaction in the face of the dog’s sudden aggression was to stab it in self-defence.
The couple were both treated for their injuries at the local hospital.
Their three-year old was also in the house at the time, but was unharmed.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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