Dog Bites Woman's Dog; Woman Bites Back

MINNEAPOLIS, U.S. (AP) -- Amy Rice feared for her dog's life when a pit bull jumped over a fence into her yard and attacked her pooch. So she took matters into her own mouth.

Rice said she bit the pit bull on the nose Friday after trying to pull the dog's jaws off her Labrador retriever, Ella. The dog had jumped a fence to get into Rice's northeast Minneapolis yard, and Rice says she feared the pit bull would kill Ella.

"I ended up biting the pit bull on the nose," Rice, 38, told the Star Tribune. "I didn't plan it, that's what happened. I broke the skin and had pit bull blood in my mouth. I knew what happened, and I knew that it wasn't good."

The pit bull was quarantined Wednesday by Minneapolis Animal Control officers and will remain quarantined while rabies tests are being completed. full story