Published January 13, 2015
An 11-year old boy is in Brazil's media spotlight after sinking his teeth into the neck of a dog that attacked him.
Local newspapers reported on Thursday that Gabriel Almeida was playing in his uncle's backyard in the city of Belo Horizonte when a pit bull named Tita lunged at him and bit him in the left arm.
Almeida grabbed the dog by the neck and bit back — biting so hard that he lost a canine tooth.
Almeida tells the O Globo newspaper: "It is better to lose a tooth than one's life."
Stonemasons working nearby chased the dog away before it could attack again.
The Folha de S. Paulo newspaper says the boy received four stitches at a local hospital while the dog was taken to a pound and may be sacrificed.
https://www.foxnews.com/story/boy-11-fends-off-pit-bull-by-biting-it-so-hard-his-tooth-falls-out