HELL HOuND
SHE WENT from a rescued dog to a killer.
An NYPD officer with a big heart adopted Mila, an emaciated pit bull he rescued in September from an abandoned home in Queens. Just as the 15-month-old dog was adjusting to her new environment in Huntington, L.I., the pit bull ran into a neighbor’s yard and latched her powerful jaws onto Biscotti, a small 7-year-old Peagle.
It took place on April 21 — right in front of the smaller dog’s owner, who still has nightmares about the fatal attack.
“Biscotti was just squatting down and this white image came out of the woods in the back of our yard and tackles him, completely unprovoked,” said Biscotti’s owner, Louise. “(Mila) slaps him down on his back and begins shaking him. She was peeling away her ear like an artichoke.”
Little Biscotti — a mixture of Pekingnese and beagle — was screaming.
Louise, who had two other dogs with her, got tangled up in their leashes and fell to the ground.
“I came face to face with the pit bull,” said Louise, who asked to withhold her last name because she feared retaliation from pit bull owners.
“She was shaking Biscotti,” the woman recalled. “All this blood was coming onto my face.”
Louise managed to grab Mila’s mouth in the hopes of freeing her beloved dog “but her jaws were way too strong,” she said.
Mila started pulling Biscotti toward the woods. The smaller dog stopped screaming.
“She was shaking him like a rag doll! Like a rag doll!” Louise said. “(Biscotti) was 38 pounds. I know people with small children who are less than 38 pounds!
“I was screaming at the dog ‘You killed him, you f---! You killed him!”
Armed with a pole, Louise’s husband managed to force Mila to drop Biscotti. He kept the gray-and-white pit bull at bay until Suffolk County cops were called to corral the animal.
Mila bit both Louise and her husband, although their injuries were minor.
Biscotti wasn’t so lucky. After suffering massive bite wounds, he died of his injuries on May 2.
Officer Joshua Sailor apologized for Mila’s behavior, Louise said. The hazeleyed pit bull was staying with Sailor’s girlfriend, who co-owns the dog.
Louise said she plans to sue Sailor, 25, over her dog’s death. The cop did not return a call seeking comment.
Meanwhile, Louise’s other dog, a 4-year-old brindle boxer named Nala, witnessed the attack and remains to the doorframe of the home, traumatized. forcing her to remain in a footwide
The once-friendly dog is now gap between the main door very fearful and runs away from and screen door without any everything. She’s also developed food or water. an ulcer, Louise said. As soon as she was freed, Sailor
“Nala and Biscotti were like and the pit bull bonded immediately, frick and frack,” she said. “Since the cop told the Daily this happened, she’s been super News in December. sad. She doesn’t want to stay outside. “She ran right up to me,” Sailor She hears another dog and said. “I realized that this dog is suddenly in fear of her life.” needed a lot of love and I have a
The Emergency Services Unit lot of love to give.” rescued Mila from a dilapidated The ASPCA, which nursed Mila home on Farmer’s Blvd. in Jamaica, back to health before Sailor Queens, back in Sept. 30. could adopt her, honored the
Someone had chained the pup young cop at a luncheon in December,