An investigation is underway after a police officer shot a pit bull in Cheltenham Township, following multiple reports of the dog attacking people and other pets.<\/p>\n
According to the Cheltenham Township Police Department, on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, around 6:21 p.m., officers responded to the Wyngate Community in the Wyncote section of the township after receiving multiple 911 calls about a “vicious pit bull” chasing and attacking people and other dogs. <\/p>\n
When the officers arrived at the scene, police said they found the dog, which then aggressively approached one of the officers. <\/p>\n
The officer then discharged one shot from their firearm in self-defense, police said. The dog was struck but then ran away. <\/p>\n
A short time later, police said the owner of the dog called 911, reporting that their dog was injured. Officers confirmed that this was the same dog that had been shot. <\/p>\n
Police said the dog was transported to an emergency veterinary hospital for treatment. <\/p>\n
According to police, the incident remains under investigation. <\/p>\n
If you were attacked by the dog or witnessed the incident, you are urged to contact the Cheltenham Police Department at 215-885-1600. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after a police officer shot a pit bull in Cheltenham Township, following multiple reports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13911,4615,200,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-19999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-cheltenham-township","tag-critter-corner","tag-montgomery-county","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}