“This is a dog that needs to be watched, obviously. The dog needs to be put down, frankly,” said Webb, who carried a .380-caliber handgun in his back yard Friday as the pit bull barked and growled at him from the other side of a weathered wood fence. “I got four kids, and they’re home-schooled, and this is their play area,” he said. “He ate my dog. I’m just glad it wasn’t my daughter.”

[Editor’s note: Andy Webb is the pastor of Providence Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Fayetteville, N.C.]

A Fayetteville family said its pet beagle was attacked and eaten by three pit bulls in a neighbor’s yard Thursday evening.

Graham Webb got Jack a few weeks ago as a present for his 10th birthday. He called the puppy “my special-ist birthday present in my whole life.”

Jack was in the family’s back yard Thursday while the family was out and somehow got into the neighbor’s yard. Andy Webb, Graham’s father, said Friday that he thinks a neighbor’s pit bull pulled the puppy through a hole in the fence.

Once Jack was in the adjacent yard, a witness said, two other pit bulls joined in the attack and devoured it.

Andy Webb said the family searched for Jack when they got home, only to learn about the puppy’s horrific fate.

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