When Tarpon Springs Police Department officers showed up at a mobile home in the Palm Springs Estates park, they probably didn’t imagine what would come next.

They needed to arrest Brittany Mapel, 21, for domestic violence and animal abuse.

Instead, she gave them a run for their money.

“She loves her dog,” said neighbor Kenny Sanchez. “I don’t think she’d do something like that.”

What she did is outlined in arrest papers.

They show that Mapel ran back into her mobile home and let her full grown pit bull out the side door, knowing the officers were nearby.

The dog tried to bite some of them.

Eventually, it bit Officer Larry Bird’s left hand, paperwork says.

His ring finger was punctured.

A roommate was home when a News Channel 8 crew stopped by.

The dog named Precious was there. The woman had to hold it back.

“She’s fine now,” the unnamed woman said.

Mapel was taken to the Pinellas County Jail.

She’s charged with aggravated assault on a police officer and resisting arrest with violence.

“It’s a cute dog. Not violent,” Sanchez said.

“Kids are around here all the time and it never attacked anyone or anything like that,” he explained.

No word why the dog hasn’t been seized by animal control officers.