Shot dog, then bites gunman

[Rico]

Sick 'em boy!   :porthos

BERLIN (Reuters) – A dog in Germany shot by a drunken man with a gun took swift revenge by biting off the end of the man's nose, authorities said on Monday.

Police said the armed man was snooping at night in the yard of a house in Stadtlauringen in northern Bavaria when he shot the Bernese mountain dog from point-blank range.

Before collapsing, the dog leapt at the 39-year-old man and bit off the end of his nose, a local police spokesman said.

Bleeding profusely, the man called police and was taken for treatment in a nearby hospital. His motives for being in the yard were unclear, police said.

Doctors removed a bullet from the dog's shoulder and discharged it from a clinic after an operation lasting several hours.

(Reporting by Dave Graham; editing by Michael Roddy)

source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090622/od_nm/us_germany_dog

[sheldor]

Good dog.

Brings back memories.  No, I didn't shoot a dog - just the biting off the nose part.  My face looked like a train wreck after that incident. :D

[PepperDude]

Yeah! What a brave dog.

[Jen]

Good for the dog! I'm glad it was okay. Sounds like a good guard dog.