A 4-year-old Oklahoma boy had an arm completely ripped off by a pit bull while trying to pet some puppies at his grandparents’ home, according to police and his distraught mom.
Little Axel Foster lost his right arm after putting his hand inside a dog pen Friday night while being looked after by his dad’s parents in Tecumseh, police told KFOR.
Responding officers found him waiting outside with his grandmother, with the limb completely missing under the shoulder.
“The child’s arm was still in the pen,” Tecumseh Police Chief JR Kidney told the outlet.
“When officers and animal control attempted to retrieve the arm, the dog became aggressive to them,” he said.
One of the responding officers, Aaron McCormick, wrote in the police report that he “could see the arm inside, and one of the puppies was trying to chew on it.”
My heart aches for that little boy. He never should have been allowed to be anywhere near a pitbull. I would not leave a child anywhere there was a pitbull on the premises. Now he will have a lifetime of pain and surgeries and hardships due to a responsible adult not seeing that this didn’t happen.