{"id":14778,"date":"2020-06-09T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=14778"},"modified":"2020-06-09T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T14:00:03","slug":"updated-woman-dead-dog-attack-chaswood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=14778","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED: Woman dead after dog attack in Chaswood; Police confirm dog later found deceased"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>CHASWOOD:<\/strong> A woman from Middle Musquodoboit is dead after the dog she owned attacked her as she walked it shortly after 8 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an updated press release, Halifax District RCMP said they responded to a report of a possible deceased woman off the Wittenburg Rd. in Chaswood, just outside Middle Musquodoboit and a dog was near the woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;36&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police determined that the woman, who lived in Middle Musquodoboit, was walking her dog when it attacked her. The dog was described as a large pit bull. The dog ran away prior to police arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police were searching the area for the dog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At approximately\u00a09:30\u00a0a.m., police were notified that the dog was struck by a passing motorist near Hwy.\u00a0224\u00a0and it was confirmed deceased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We can not provide any further information on the woman at this time because family has not been notified,&#8221; said RCMP in a release. &#8220;Our thoughts are with the victim&#8217;s family during this difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHASWOOD: A woman from Middle Musquodoboit is dead after the dog she owned attacked her as she walked it shortly after 8 a.m. In an updated press release, Halifax District RCMP said they responded to a report of a possible deceased woman off the Wittenburg Rd. in Chaswood, just outside Middle Musquodoboit and a dog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[1147,1148,14],"class_list":["post-14778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-middle-musquodoboit","tag-pitbull","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}