{"id":330819,"date":"2026-07-06T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330819\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:09:10","slug":"man-injured-while-trying-to-protect-small-dog-from-larger-dog-in-hialeah-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330819\/","title":{"rendered":"Man injured while trying to protect small dog from larger dog in Hialeah, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 6, 2026 at 11:49 AM<\/p>\n<p>Smaller dog was reportedly killed in attack Miami-Dade Animal Services has opened an investigation into a dog attack that occurred on the Fourth of July, Hialeah police confirmed Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HIALEAH, Fla.  \u2014 Miami-Dade Animal Services has opened an investigation into a dog attack that occurred on the Fourth of July, Hialeah police confirmed Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Lt. Eddie Rodriguez, the incident happened at about 8:30 a.m. Saturday in the 1100 block of West 50th Place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rodriguez said a worker arrived at a home in the area and a dog ran out the front door before attacking a smaller dog that was being walked nearby by its owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Rodriguez, the owner of the larger dog went outside, separated the dogs and took his dog back inside his home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But Rodriguez said the dog escaped again just moments later and ran back toward the smaller dog, which was being helped by a neighbor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAs the neighbor tried to run away with the smaller dog to prevent another attack, he fell and sustained injuries,\u201d Rodriguez said in an email to Local 10 News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A relative of the smaller dog\u2019s owner told Local 10 News that the dog was killed in the attack. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rodriguez confirmed that Hialeah police contacted Miami-Dade Animal Services, which has taken over the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 6, 2026 at 11:49 AM Smaller dog was reportedly killed in attack Miami-Dade Animal Services has opened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-330819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}