A 24-year-old in Boulder is in the hospital with grievous injuries from an attack by his own dog.
“It was my son’s best friend,” said his mother Tanya Jackson. The dog, an 8-year-old American Bulldog named Dutch , which she further described as a bulldog mastiff, had been with the family since it was a puppy. “My son loved his dog. We all loved the dog.”
The animal had been living with her son, who brought it over to the house on Palo Parkway Sunday. As he was trying to get it out of its kennel, it turned on him.
“The dog was sick. And he would never do this otherwise,” said Jackson.
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Recently the family had taken the dog to a veterinarian for treatment. It had been bleeding and the animal was placed on antibiotics, which seemed to make the bleeding stop. The family believes the dog had cancer and a scan was scheduled for this week.