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Determined dog chews Tenn. officer’s tires, bumper

The officers tried to use a TASER on the animal

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This photo provided by the Chattanooga Police Department on Sunday March 14, 2010 shows a police car after a bulldog chewed off two tires and the entire front bumper off Officer Clayton Holmes’s car in Chattanooga, Tenn.

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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — What happened to a Chattanooga police officer’s car was certainly under the radar. A city police spokeswoman said Sunday that Officer Clayton Holmes had been checking traffic speeds with radar and stopped to fill out a report when he felt his car shaking.

He found a bulldog chewing on the tires. After the dog attacked two passing cars and a second police car, officers used pepper spray and a Taser on it, but the animal wasn’t deterred.

By the time McCamey Animal Center staffers captured that dog and two others, it had chewed two tires and the entire front bumper off Holmes’ patrol car.

Officer Rebecca Royval said the dogs got out of a fence at a nearby welding shop. The owner was cited and the dogs were removed.