The American Pit Bull Terrier was found with a severe stab wound to its right abdomen just after midnight in front of a beer bar on Soi Welcome Jomtien Hotel in Bang Lamung district, said Pol Lt Col Somkhid Sittisart, a duty officer at Pattaya police station.
Dog owner Dussadee Khom-arwut, 42, told police that she went out when her dog, ''Rod-tank'' was attacked. She immediately went to the area to take her injured dog to an animal hospital. However, her dog died before receiving treatment, Ms Dussadee said in tears.
Witnesses said a foreign man had used a wooden baton to beat the pitbull as it moved from the entrance of the soi to the middle of the alley. A few minutes later, they heard the dog scream loudly before it ran bleeding to the beer bar.
Police will track down the attacker to face action under the animal-welfare law.
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