Man 'bit his mother's dog so savagely, he tore its eye out'

David Etzel, who is accused of tearing out the eye of his mother's dog

A man bit his mother’s tiny dog so savagely that he tore the animal’s eye out, it has been reported.

Police responding to an animal cruelty call from an animal hospital in Lake Worth, Florida, found the Shih Tzu, named Cujo, with his eye hanging out of the socket.