A family in Linden is grieving the loss of their dog Kato, a 5-year-old Papillon who died when he was attacked by two pitbulls that got loose from a neighbor\u2019s yard.<\/p>\n
Kato was on a walk with his owner, Angelo Cuozzo, on Sunday, when both were attacked by the pitbulls who jumped a chain link fence to get free from their yard on East Munsell Avenue in Linden.<\/p>\n
Cuozzo, who also suffered bite wounds to his face and hands, eventually got free with the help of a good Samaritan who grabbed a shovel and struck one of the dogs.<\/p>\n
Cuozzo and his wife took Kato to Garden State Veterinary Hospital in Woodbridge, but the dog didn\u2019t survive surgery to treat puncture wounds and a broken leg.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the couple showed News 12 the sweater Kato was wearing at the time of the attack, along with his photos and a box of his ashes.<\/p>\n
The two dogs that attacked have been taken into custody by Linden Animal Control.<\/p>\n
Police will determine if the pitbulls will be euthanized.<\/p>\n
Cuozzo says the owners of the pitbulls have called to apologize and help pay for damages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family in Linden is grieving the loss of their dog Kato, a 5-year-old Papillon who died when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[11640,56207,1457,26256,1958,21466,6530,56206,9,24,63,134,136,135,40028],"class_list":["post-131120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-animal-attacks","tag-animal-killed","tag-animals","tag-dead-dogs","tag-dog","tag-dog-attack","tag-dogs","tag-linden","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-union-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}