{"id":316589,"date":"2026-10-29T03:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T03:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316589\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T03:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T03:38:10","slug":"woman-loses-part-of-her-finger-trying-to-break-up-dog-fight-in-mount-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316589\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman loses part of her finger trying to break up dog fight in Mount Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">MOUNT OLIVER, Pa. \u2014 A woman remains hospitalized Wednesday after she lost part of her finger trying to break up a dog fight in Mount Oliver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">According to law enforcement authorities, the woman was walking her German shepherd along Onyx Avenue around 3:30 p.m. when a pit bull cleared a fence and started attacking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A nearby resident saw the attack and intervened to help the woman before paramedics arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Neighbor Austin Seidel noticed the disturbance and immediately stepped in to assist the victim. Seidel applied a tourniquet to the woman\u2019s hand to control the bleeding and stayed with her until emergency assistance arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cShe lost the tip of her finger. I can\u2019t imagine the pain she was in. Just kind of did some breathing exercises with her. In through the nose, out through the mouth type of thing,\u201d Seidel said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The woman\u2019s boyfriend described the entire ordeal as traumatic and confirmed that she remains in the hospital for treatment. He added that the German shepherd survived the attack and is currently in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Law enforcement officials said no charges have been brought forward in connection with the attack at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The pit bull\u2019s owner tells us the dog will be put down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOUNT OLIVER, Pa. \u2014 A woman remains hospitalized Wednesday after she lost part of her finger trying to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[129074,869,129071,862,861,45030,129073,139,129072,859,73,75,74,867,866,129075,420,860],"class_list":["post-316589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-austin_seidel","tag-channel_11","tag-doorbell","tag-gordon_lesh","tag-lisa_sylvester","tag-mount_oliver","tag-mount_oliver_borough","tag-news","tag-onyx_avenue","tag-ott_news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-rich","tag-rich_pierce","tag-seidel","tag-video","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316589","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=316589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}