WTF: Man Gets Mauled To Death By A Dog He Had Adopted That Very Same Day!

Tennessee animal lover was mauled to death by a Rottweiler he had adopted only hours earlier on Thursday, police said.

The wife of Anthony Riggs, 57, found him dead when she came back to their Jackson-area home from work around 3:30 p.m., officials in the Madison County Sheriff’s Office told The Jackson Sun.

Riggs had taken the dog home from Jackson-Madison County Rabies Control, a county animal control facility, that very morning, according to the sheriff’s office. Deputies shot the 5-year-old male dead at the scene when he charged toward a group of onlookers who had gathered outside the house.

A Jackson city employee had found the stray dog five days earlier, and he hadn’t bitten any handlers while he was in custody, Kim Tedford, director of the county's Regional Health Department, told the local newspaper.

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