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WEBVTT WITH HIM ABOUT THIS ORDEAL. DAVE: BAXTER’S ON THE COMEBACK TRAIL AFTER LOTS OF VET CARE. >> I WAS HIT FROM BEHIND, AND WAS DOING WHAT I COULD. DAVE: ROGER WILSON SHARED THE DIFFICULT DETAILS FROM A WALK EARLIER THIS WEEK, A WALK WHICH ENDED IN BAXTER BEING BITTEN A AND SHAKEN BY A PITBULL TYPE DOG, LEAVING OBVIOUS WOUNDS AND EVENTUALLY SCARS, BUT -- >> HE’S GOING TO MAKE IT, HE’S A SURVIVOR. DAVE: THE SHERIFF’S OFFI REPORT SAYS THE PITBULL NAMED RENO HAD JUST BEEN ADOPTED FROM THE LAKE COUNTY SHELTER MONDAY, AND WHEN THE ADOPTER GOT THE DOG HOME AND TIED IT UP, IT GO AWAY AND ATTACKED HER SMALLER DOG, A CHIHUAHUA, KILLING IT. THEN, THE REPORT SAYS THE DOG GRABBED BAXTER. >> HIT ME IN THE KNEE, LIKE BUMPED ME FROM BEHIND, PUSHED ME DOWN, GRABBED MY DOG BY HIS EAR FIRST. DAVE: WILSON SAYS WHEN HE WALKS BAXTER, HE ALWAYS WALKS WITH A STICK TO PROTECT THEMSELVES. HE SAYS THESE ARE TWO OF THREE PIECES THE STICK BROKE INTO AS HE WAS TRYING TO FIGHT OFF THE ATTACKING DOG. A NEIGHBOR CAME TO WILSON’S AID, AND SAID HE HAD TO HIT THE DOG SEVERAL TIMES WITH A SHOVEL. THE REPORTS SAY THE ADOPTER WAS TOLD BY SHELTER STAFF THAT THE. -- THAT THE DOG IS AGGRESSIVE WITH SMALL ANIMALS AND CATS BUT THAT SHE INDICATED SHE THOUGHT SHE COULD MAKE IT WORK. WILSON SAYS THE COUNTY SHELTER CULD HAVE DONE MORE. >> THEY COULD HAVE COME DOWN HERE AND SEEN WHAT SHE HAD AND SAID YOU DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT PLACE TO BE KEEPING THIS DOG. DAVE: BUT THE COUNTY SAID IN A STATEMENT, THIS TRAGIC INCIDENT IS DUE TO ADOPTER CARELESSNESS IN LAKE COUNTY, DAVE MCDANIEL, WESH 2 NEWS. SUMMER: WE ATTEMPTED TO REAC THE PITBULL’S OWNER, BUT COULDN’T RE

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A dog that had just been adopted from a local animal shelter got loose and killed a smaller dog. It then ran and attacked another dog that was being walked by its owner.It happened in Lake County. The man whose dog survived the incident is speaking out.Baxter's on the comeback trail after lots of vet care."I was hit from behind and I was doing what I could," Roger Wilson said.Wilson shared the difficult details from a walk earlier this week -- a walk which ended in Baxter being bitten and shaken by a 'pit bull type-dog' -- leaving obvious wounds and eventually scars."He's going to make it, he's a survivor," Wilson said.The Sheriff's Office report said the pit bull named Reno had just been adopted from the Lake County Shelter on Monday, and when Stacey Bates got the dog home and tied it up, it got away and allegedly attacked her smaller dog, a Chihuahua, killing it, and then the report said the dog grabbed Baxter."Hit me in the knee, like he bumped me from behind, pushed me down, grabbed my dog by his ear first," Wilson said.Wilson said when he walks Baxter, he always walks with a stick to protect himself. He said the stick broke into three pieces as he was trying to fight off the attacking dog.A neighbor came to Wilson's aid, and said he had to "hit the dog several times with a shovel."The reports said Bates was told by shelter staff members that the "dog is aggressive with small animals and cats," but that Bates indicated she thought she could make it work.Wilson said the county shelter could have done more."They could have come down here and seen what she had and said 'you don't have the right place to be keeping this dog,'" Wilson said. The county said in a statement that the "tragic incident is due to adopter carelessness."